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HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION
A Weekly Page of Poultry Hints to You
Here Is a Department Full of Bright Ideas for Readers of the Home and Farm Magazine Section.
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Clara M. Nixon of Oregon Agri- $
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5 young chickens.
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By CLARA M. NIXON.
A MAINTENANCE ration for chicks
is one which will provide energy
forming material to sustain the
body processes, and supply the elements
needed in the repair of the organs and
the growth and development of the
body. Wheeler gives the , following,
which was calculated from aetual food
consumption of chicks:
Digestible Nutrients per 100 Lbs. Live
' Weight of Chicks (for 1 da.)
To8Wkt. ToWk. To 6 Wis.
Pry Matter... 10.1 lbs. 9. Iba. 2.6 lbs.
Ath 0.5 07
Protein 2.0 2.2
Carbohydrate!. 7.2 6.2
Fat 0.1 0.S
The amounts here given
0.6
2.0
S.6
0.4 ,
are the
amounts digested, not total amounts
eaten. The table shows that the chicks,
though they need more nutriment per
chick as they grow older, do not re
quire so much per pound weight.
SEVERAL GOOD RATIONS.
Oregon Experiment Station Ration.
Starting Feed.
Bran mixed crumbly with raw egg;
tread squeezed dry oat sf milk.
drain Mixture .
1 pint cracked wheat.
1 pint cracked corn.
Ilaah Mixture.
8 lbs. wheat bran.
lb. wheat middlings or shorts.
1 lb. cor meal.
Pinch of salt added when raiiiag.
First Feeding Time 21 to 36 Horn.
First Week Starting food twice a
Say; grain mixture three times a day
n clean sand; after two or three days,
grain in litter; clean water; grit, char
coal, cracked bone, in separate dishes;
green food.
One to Three Weeks One feed a day
of moist mash, what they will clean up
in an hour; grain mixture in litter two
or three times a day; grit, chareoal,
cracked bone, and beef scrap in hop
pers; water; green food.
Three to Six Weeks Morning feed of
moist mash; two feeds of grain mix
ture; dry middlings in a hopper, if
signs of diarrhoea appear; hopper-fed
beef scrap; water, grit,, charcoal, crack
ed bone, always available; milk to
drink; green food.
After Six Weeks, or On Range
Morning meal of moist mash; two feeds
of grain mixture; milk (or beef scrap),
charcoal, grit, bone, water. Oats may
be added to the grain mixture, if de
sired; the proportion of wheat may be
increased or decreased as it becomes
lower or higher in price than corn.
Cornell Ration.
Starting Food.
8 lbs. rolled oats
8 lbs. bread crumbs.
2 lbs. sifted beef scrap.
1 lb. bone meal.
Moistened with skim-milk.
Grain Mixture.
8 lbs. wheat.
2 lbs. corn.
1 lb. hulled oats.
Fine cracked for the youngest chicks;
whole wheat and hulled oats and larger crack
ed corn for older chicks; oats omitted for
range chicks.
Mash Mixture.
8 lbs. wheat bran.
3 lbs. wheat middling.
3 lbs. corn meal.
8 lbs. beef scrap.
1 lb. bone meal.
Fed dry from first meal; moist and dry
After firs days.
First Feeding Time 36 to 48 hours.
First Five DaysStarting food five
times a day, what they will eat in IS
minutes; grain mixture in tray of dry
mash always available; fine grit, char
coal, bone and green food scattered over
other food; water.
After Five Days Grain twice a day
in litter; scanty feed of moist mash
three times a day; as chicks grow older,
two feeds of moist mash, then only one
at noon; water, grit, charcoal, cracked
bone, always at hand, and hopper-fed
beef scrap if desired; milk to drink.
Chieks should be hungry once a day,
preferably in the morning.
On Range Grain, dry mash; beef
crap, grit, shell, bone, Water, always at
hand. One meal of moist mash if desired.
Maine Station Method.
Starting Food,
4 lbs. wheat bran. '
3 Yt lbs. corn meal.
2 lbs. screened beef scrap.
1 lb. alfalfa meal,
ft lb. linseed meal.
Mash Mixture No. 1.
2 lbs. wheat bran.
3 lbs. corn meat
1 lb. Daisy flour (or other .low-grade
flour).
1 lb. screened beef scrap.
lb. linseed meal.
Grain Mixture.
15 lbs. cracked wheat.
10 lbs. pinhead oatmeal.
IS lbs. fine cracked corn.
3 lbs. fine cracked peas.
2 lbs. broken rice.
5 lbs. chick grit.
. 2 lbs. carcoal.
Mash Mixture No. 2.
1 lb. wheat bran. -.
2 lbs. corn meal.
1 lb. wheat middlings.
1 lb. beef scrap.
First Feeding Time 36 to 48 hours.
To Three Weeks--Two feeds of start
ing food, scalded and mixed with rolled
oats, two parts of oats to six of mix
ture; two feeds of grain mixture in
light litter; green food; fine grit, char
coal, cracked bone, and clean water al
ways before the chicks.
Three to Six Weeks Substitute mash
mixture No. 1 (moist) for the starting
food; otherwise as above.
On Range (after six or eight weeks)
Constant supply of wheat, cracked
corn, beef scrap, cracked bone, oyster
shell, and grift in separate troughs or
hoppers; hopper-fed mash mixture No.
2; Water.
Ontario Agricultural College Ration.
Starting Food,
t lbs. bread crumbs.
1 lb. hard boiled egg.
Fed dry.
Grain Mixta re,
80 lbs. cracked wheat.
80 lbs. granulated oatmeal.
80 lbs. fina cracked corn.
10 lbs. small grit.
Mash Mixture.
10 lbs. wheat bran.
10 lbs. short.
10 lbs. corn meal.
3 lbs. animal meal.-
First Feeding Time 24 to 43 hours.
First Two Days Starting food, fed
five times a day; lukewarm water to
drink.
After Two Days Three feeds of
grain mixture, with one of bread and
milk, and one of whole wheat; or with
two feeds' of moist mash; fresh boiled
liver twiee a week, if obtainable in
that case, ' animal meal omitted from
the mash; for chicks on range with the
hens, the grain mixture may be hopper-
fed.
After Eight Weeks Moist mash in
the morning; grain noon and night. An
increase in the proportion of animal
food will hasten the development of the
chicks.
If there is no green food within
reach, it should be furnished to chicks
of all ages.
To Stimulate Turkey Raising.
In an effort to stimulate interest in
the raising of turkeys, an industry
that has been seriously lagging in the
Inland Empire for several seasons, the
poultry department of the interstate
fair association has secured, through
the National Bronze Turkey club, the
awarding of a number of ribbons for
toms and hens. This is in addition to
regular prizes offered by the associa
tion. During the last season the lack
of turkeys in the Inland Empire was
sharply emphasized when a number
of persons who desired to raise a few
of the birds found themselves unable to
get any local eggs. Inquiry showed
that only a few flocks were to be
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found anywhere in this region, and yet
dressed turkeys bring high prices at
the holiday season, so high that meat
dealers find it profitable to ship in
large quantities of the fowls in re
frigeration.
Hens Laying Small Eggs.
To the Editor Please tell me through
your paper what makes my Buff Leg
horn pullets lay very small eggs that
are all- yolk. There is no white to the
egg at all. E. H. T.
This indicates irritation in the ovi
duct. The affected birds should be
separated from the flock and kept from
all undue excitement. Doctor Salmon
advises to give green and cooling food,
avoiding meat, condition powders, pep
per and all foods of an irritating na
ture, keeping the hen quiet and giving
her 20 grains of Epsom salts and two
grains common baking soda; this is to
be followed with one-half drop tinc
ture of aconite root three times a day.
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Keep Your Eye on the Layers.
The average hen lays only seventy-
five eggs a year. These seventy-five
eggs, at the average price, would be
worth a little more than a dollar. At
the present price of feed, it costs all
of $1.50 to feed a hen for a year. Hence
the margin appears on the wrong side
of the ledger.
This means that men who expect to
make money in egg production must se
lect for layers hens that are above the
average. In almost every other line of
stock selection it is being carefully car
ried on. The breeders of cattle and
swine have for years been improving
their stock so as to meet the needs of
the consumers. The dairyman daily
weighs the milk of each individual cow
to determine which cows are returning s
profit and which are failing to pay
their board, but the farm hen is going
unnoticed.
PURITANISM SAID TO
THREATEN FREEDOM
CONGRESSMAN DECLARES TEN
DENCY IN THIS COUNTRY IS TO
ENSLAVE THE MANY FOR EX
CESSES OF FEW.
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., May 25. "The dark
spectre of puritanisra is beclouding the
sun of freedom. It is the lot of the
present generation to defend the
sovereignty of the individual against
the tyranny of the majority." With
these words United States Congressman
Richard Bartholdt, of Missouri, declar
ed that Carl Schurz, Emil Preetorious
and Carl Daenzer would find a new
fight for freedom was to be waged if
they were living in this epoch.
Mr. Bartholdt spoke at tho unveiling
of a monument to the three German
editors, erected in commemoration of
their support during the civil war.
"It seems," he said, "as if it had
fallen to the lot of the present genera
tion to defend the sovereignty of the
individual, the inherent right of self
control against the majority, a struggle
in which there is as much at stake as
in all tho preceding struggles for the
preservation of liberty. The plan is to
enslave the many because of the possi
ble excesses of the few, and American
self government, the proud boast of our
leaders, is no longer to be a government
of each by himself in matters of per
sonal conduct, but of each by all the
rest.".
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Reports show that 121,000,000 aon
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would be reasonably safe to estimates
that the egg crop of this country,
crowds the corn crop very closely, or
would if accurate returns could be ob
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in the homes of the farmers.
The number of eggs exported ha
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It is reported that in 1903 the value of
hens' eggs exported was $33,297 and in
1913, $4,391,653.
Kerosene for Poultry.
If kerosene were not so common and
cheap we would consider it a great
poultry remedy.
I have cured my hens by the use of
a small spring bottom oil can, with
which I injected a little oil into their
nests.
If their heads are swelled anoint the
swollea part with common vaseline.
Continue this treatment about four
days.
Kerosene is a good lice killer; so is
hot salt brine.
Often a teaspoonful of kerosene will
cure the cholera in chicks.
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