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Her It ft Department Full of Bright Ideal for Beaden of the Home and Farm Magazine Section.
An intereatinf article U whiek
Qua M. Niion. of Oregon Agri-
cultural College continue her die-
ft cussion of the feeding of young
chicken.
FEW grain seem to be essential,
f-l but a large variety of grains is not
necessary in chick feeding.
Wheat is one of the best grain foods,
and ehieks do well if given wheat alone
as a grain. It is usually cracked for
the youngest chicks, though they will
pick up small grains, like wheat screen
ings, after they are a few days old; es
pecially if they are with the hen. Corn
-is another excellent food for chicks. A
mixture of corn and wheat is good for
chickens of all agoe. Millet is not good,
if fed in large proportion. The cover
ing of the grains is very hard, and the
eeeds may collect in the digestive tract
of the chicks, causing death. Oats are
valuable food, but contain too large a
proportion of husk for young chicks,
Hulled oats, steel cut oats, or oat
groats may be mixed with corn and
wheat for the grain food. The hulled
oats is the grain without the husk, ami
the- others are the cut or broken Initio.-!
oat3.
Commercial Chick Foods.
Commercial chick .'oods contain a
larger variety of grains and often a lot
of weed seeds. The tatter iire not par
ticularly good food, and aro expensive,
at tho price paid. Many of the com
mereial grain mixtures contain a proportion-
of fine grit, which may be more
cheaply purchased as ,rit than as chick
food.
(.'Tasked corn is usually one of the in
gredients of commercial chick foods.
Unless well cared for, this may become;
musty, rendering the entire mixture un
fit to be fed. Home mixing makes it;
easier to avoid spoiled foods.
Cracked Grains.
Commercial chick-foods cost about
$2.50 per hundred weight, in quantity.
Corn averages about $1.50 per hundred
pounds (1.6 bu.) and is seldom more
than $2.00 per hundred, even in smaller
quantities. Wheat rarely costs over
$1.50 per 100 pounds. A mixtnre of
equal parts wheat and corn wuld cost
$1.75 per hundred pounds, A mixture
of three pounds wheat, two pounds corn
and one pound oat groats would eost
$1.91 per hundred weight The former
of these mixtures is 30 per cent cheaper
than the commercial mixtures, and the
lattor 23 per cent The saving of one
fourth to one-third on the cost of food
is quite an item, and will easily pay for
the mixing.
Usually thp cracked grains may be
purchased at any of the larger mills; if,
however, they are not available, the
Berry Growers Combine.
Nineteen berry growers met at Snoho
mish, Wash., recently and organized an
association for the marketing of local
farm products, including vegetables and
amall fruit.
Sixty other farmers are expected to
join the association. The 19 members
year and the other farmers should have
as many more.
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only thing to do it to re what is at
hand, as wheat screenings or small
wheat, or els bar the prepared foods.
If the latter oourse is followed, the
food should be carefully examined, by
taste, light, and odor, to make sure it
i good.
Methods of feeding.
Both ground ferain tad grain of larger
suse seem necessary to the best growth
of .chieks. (K. 11, 13). The ground
food is quickly digested,, and furnishes
the food elements without so great ex
pense of energy in digestion. Cracked,
grain gives exercise and development
to the digestive system, and remains
longer in the crop. Chicks do not get
so hungry ia tho night if their latest
meal is of cracked graia. On the other
hand, chicks fed only cracked grain
grow less rapidly than others' having
ground food as well as cracked grain.
Ground food moistened, with milk
gives mors return in growth of chicks
than the same amount fed dry. ChicKs
do welt, however, on a ration of cracked,
grain and dry mash, and the labor cost
is less than for the moist mash- (B
11, 13). This brings aown the expense,
if the chicks are reared in large num
bers. ' Where chickens are raised by
liens, moist mash is often preferred.
Some poultry-men keep dry' mash always
before the chicks, however reared, and
sjive one meal a day of moist mash. The
chicks will usually eai- more of he
jrnmnd food if fed in this way, though
tho amount of moist mash should be
limited., (hicks, under one pound in
woight are said to do better on moist
mash, with 'grain, lartrer chickens grow
ing better on dry mash. i
Hand-Feeding or Hopper-Feeding.
The. hnpprr or some ssch device is
practically a necessity iu dry feeding.
lfojper-feeding takes less time than
fcnnd-fefdinjr, andmny consider that
chicks raised art crncked grain and hop
per fed dry mash make ffuite as good
mature fowls as those reared by the
hand-feeding system (moist mash).
With hopper feeding, it is possible to
provide a constant snppfy of food which
cannot be readily soiled by the chicks.
For young chickens, hopper feeding both
grain and mash is not advisable. The
chicks settle down by the brain hopper,
and gorge themselves, taking too little
exercise. This would probably be dis
astrous. The safest method is to feed the dry
maeh (if used) in hoppers, hand feeding
tha grain. Grit, charcoal, and fine
cracked bone are hopper -fed; also beef
scrap, if desired. Moist mash, if used,
is necessarily hand-fed.
For growing stock on range, hopper
feeding works well. Labor is consider
ably reduced, and the birds grow finely.
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though unlimited range is not necessary
until they are a few weeks old. If the
yards are too small, .he ground becomes
filthy and may communicate disease. In
small yards, the chicks get too little
exercise, with resulting lack of muscular
development; and greater care in feed
ing is necessary.
For young broods, a sufficiently large
range, and ore which makes it possible
to protect the chicks from accident and
marauders, is best. Grass cut moder
ately short, where shelter from the hot
sun is provided, is about the right con
dition. An orchard is a fine place for
them, if they can b protected from
hawks, crows, etc
The older chicks may range in a sun
flower patch, corn field, orchard, wood
lot, or any convenient place where they
can find insects and shelter. If allowed
about the barn yard or pig sty, they ar
in danger of being trodden upoa by the
farm animals or eaten by the pigs.
Farmers of Texas Tire of Prohibi
tion Fad
FARMERS of Texas, always zealous
advocates of "temperance," have
-had enough of '.'Prohibition."
They have tried that fad to a finish
and they nre done with it.
This attitude explains why the Farm
ers' Union of the Lone Star State ha
passed pointed and emphatic resolutions
touching the present campaign. That
organization has said in the plainest of
language that the need of the people is
"constructive legislation."
The pxpectedyhas happened in this
connection. The Farmers'' Union has
brought down on itself the explosive
wrath of political preachers who talk
"temperance," but who insist that
"prohibition" and total "abstinence"
are the only cure for the drink evil.
But the leaders of the Farmers' Un
ion are amply able to take care of
themselves in an' argument of this kind.
They have issued a letter in which thev
demand that polities he kept out of, the
pulpit, and in which farther they mix
vitriol with their argument, thus:
'The religious preacher is the most
capable servant, amTlhe political preach
er the sorriest master the world has
ever known. Wherever power is placed
in the hands of the latter, they invaria
bly become intolerant, bigoted and vic-
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ions.
"A preacher who graduates from the
palpit into polities becomes a menace to
good government. Likewise, a politician
who occupies, the pulpit debaunebes the
church and becomes a menace to religion.
' ' Political leaders may live ' wet ' and
vote 'dry,' and the low standard of
statecraft is not offended but when
the church turns over the pulpit to of-'
fice-seekers and their henchmen, tree
Christianity has received a crushing
blow, and hypocrisy runs rampant ia
the altar, for it is written: 'Ye cannot
serve two masters. ' "
The Farmers' Union of Texas is fully
justified in its stand. It is delivering
an ultimatum to those alleged and mis
taken reformers who make a business
of confusing "temperance" and "pro
hibition' The Century Dictionary defines tha
word "Temperance" as follows: "Mod
eration the observance of moderation. "
"Habitual moderation in regard to
tho indulgence of the natural appetites.
Restrained or moderate indulgence. Ab
stinence from all violence or excess
from inordinate or unseasonable indulg
ence, or from the use or pursuit of any
thing injurious to moral or physical
well-being.
"Sobriety and frugality as temper
ance in eating and drinking. Temper
ance in the indulgence of joy or grief.
Moderation in" the use of alcoholic"
liquors as beverages. " ' -
It is evident that the Farmers' t'nion
of a "prohibition" state knows from
hitter experience the exact difference'
between "temperance" and "tetal ab
stinence." "' ', '-'
They pmpose to have '''temperance"
and that is the reason why they have
used language that udmit of no mis
interpretation in telling "political
preachers" where they belong, and
warning all such to keep out of the
fight
The leaders of the Farmers ' Union
propose to have their own way about
it, too. They have built 1,r,00 churches
in Texas. They have contributed
$5,000,000 a year to religious organiza
tions and they demonstrate that 75
per cent of the preachers in the state
are on the farmers' payroll.
The facts cited and tho arguments
adduced ought to be enough to drive
homo to every political preacher and
mischief-maker in Texas the essential
listinction between true "temper
ance ' and prohibition. " (Seattle
Times, May 24, 1914, Editorial Page 8.
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