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hand. One meal of moist mash if de found anywhere in this -egion, and yet
sired.
dres»“d turkeys bring high prices at
the holiday season, so high that meat
Maine Station Method.
S tarlin g Food.
dealers find it profitable to ship in
4 lbs w heat bran.
large quantities of the fowls in re
3 3k lbs. corn meal.
frigeration.
c.
An interesting article in which
Clara M. Nixon of Oregon Agri
cultural College continues her
'• discussion of the feeding of
«> young chickens.
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By CLARA M. NIXON,
MAINTENANCE ration for chicks
i 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 actual food
cousuniptiou of chicks:
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D igestible Nutrients per 1C. Lbs. Live
W eight of Chicks (for 1 da.)
To 2 Wka. To 4 Wka. To 6 Wka.
D ry M atter. . . 10.1 I b i .
9.0 lba.
2.6 lba.
Aah
0.7
0.6
Protein .......... 3.0
1.1
2 0
Carbohydrates. 7.3
6.1
5.S
Fat
0.5
0.4
The amounts here given are the
amounts digested, not total amotui ts
eaten. The table shows that the chieks,
though they need more nutriment per
«hick ss they grow older, do not re-
quire so much per ponnd weight.
SEVERAL GOOD RATIONS.
Oregon Experiment Station Ration.
Starting Food.
Bran mixed (‘nim bly w ith raw a « :
bread aqueexed dry out of milk.
Grain Mixture.
1 p in t tracked wheat.
1 pin t cracked corn.
M ash M ixture.
8 lbs. w heat bran.
1 lb. w heat m id dlin g! er aborts.
1 lb. corn meal.
P in ch of sa lt added when m ixing.
or
F irst Feeding Time—24 to Sti norm .
First, Week—Starting food twice a
day, gTain mixture three times a day
on clean sand; after two or three days,
grain in litter; clean water; grit, char
coal, cracked bone, ia separate dishes;
green food.
One to Three Weeks—One feed a day
e f moist mash, what they will clean up
In an hour; grain mixture in litter two
or three times a day; grit, charcoal,
cracked bone, and beef scrap in hop
pers; water; green food.
Three to Six Weeks—Morn^g feed of
moist mash; two feeds of grain mix
ture; dry middlings in a hopper, if
signs of diarrhoea appear; hopper fed
beef serap; 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
e f grain mixture; milk (or beef scrap),
eharcoal. 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
tower or higher in price than corn.
Cornell Ration,
sta r tin g Food.
8 the rolled oats.
8 I b a bread rrum ha
2 lba. sifted beet scrap.
1 lb, bone meal.
M uisteued w ith skim milk.
2 lba. sert-eoed beef scrap.
1 lb. alfalfa meal.
34 lb. linseed meal.
Maah M ixture No. 1.
2 lba. w heal bran.
3 lb a corn meal.
1 lb. D aisy flour (o r other
flou r).
1 lb. screened b eef scrap.
■4 lb. linseed meal.
Grain M ixture.
15 lbs. cracked w heal.
10 lb a pinhead oatm eal.
15 lbs. fine cracked corn.
8 lbs. fin e cracked peaa.
2 lbs. broken rice.
6 lbs. chick grit.
2 lbs. rarcoal.
Mash M ixture No. 2.
1 lb. w heat bran.
2 lba. corn meal.
1 lb. w heat m iddlings.
1 lb. beef scrap.
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Hens L aying Small Eggs.
To the Editor—Please tell me through
your paper what makes my Buff Leg
low grade 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
First Feeding Time—36 to 48 hours. be followed with one half drop tine
To Three Weeks-—Two feeds of start ture of aconite root three times a day.
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ing food, scalded and mixed with rolled
Keep
Your
Eye
on the Layers.
oats, two parts of oats to six of mix
The average hen lays only seventy-
ture; two feeds of grain mixture in
light litter; green food; fine grit, ebar five eggs a year. These seventy-five
coal, cracked bone, and clean water al eggs, at the average price, would be
worth a little more than a dollar. At
ways before the chicks.
Three to Six Weeks—Substitute mash the present price of feed, it costs all
mixture No. 1 (moist) for the starting of $1.50 to feed a hen for a year. Hence
the margin appears on the wrong side
food; otherwise as above.
On Range (after six or eight weeks) of the ledger.
This means that men who expect to
—Constant supply of wheat, cracked
corn, beef serap, cracked bone, oyster make money in egg production must se
shell, and grift in separata troughs or lect for layers hens that are above the
hoppers; hopper fed mash mixture No. average. In almost every other line of
stock selection it is being carefully car
8; water.
ried on. The breeders of cattle and
Ontario Agricultural College Ration.
swine have for years been improving
8ti,rting rood.
their stock so as to meet the needs of
4 lba. bread crumbs.
1 Ih. hard boiled egg.
the consumers. The dairyman daily
F ed dry.
weighs the milk of each individual cow
Grain M ixture.
to determine which cows are returning a
80 lba. «racked w heat
profit and which are failing to pay
30 lba. granulated oetmeaL
30 lba. fin e cracked corn.
their board, but the farm hen ia going
10 lb a sm all grit.
unnoticed.
10
10
10
8
lb a
lb a
lba.
lb a
M ash M ixture.
w heat bran.
shorts.
corn meal.
anim al meal.
First Feeding Time—24 to 48 honrs.
First Two Days—Starting food, fed
five times a day; lukewarm water to
drink.
After Two Days—Threo 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 twice a week, if obtainable—in
that case, animal meal omitted from
the inaah; for ehicks on range with tbe
hens, the gTain mixture may bo hopper-
fed.
After Eight Weeks—Moist mash in
the morning; grain noon and night. An
increaae in the proportion of animal
food will hasten the development of tho
chicks.
If there is no green food within
reach, it should bo furnished to chicks
of ail agua.
To Stim ulate Turkey Raising.
In an effort to stimulate interest in
the raising of turkeys, an industry
Grain M ixtu re
that has been seriously lagging in the
8 lba. w h e a t
Inland Empire for several seasons, the
2 lba. corn.
1 lb. hulled oats.
poultry department of the interstate
F in e cracked 'or tb s youn gest chicks: fair association has secured, through
w hole wheat and hulled oats and larger crank
ad corn for older ch iek s; oats om itted for the National Bronze Turkey elab, the
awarding of a number of ribbona for
range cb ick a
tnma and hena Thia ia in addition to
Maak M ixture
regular prizes offered by the associa
8 lba. w heal bran.
8 I be. wheat middHnga.
tion. During the last season the lack
3 lbs. earn meal.
of turkeys in tbe Inland Empire was
8 lb a b eef scrap.
sharply emphasized when a number
1 lb. hone meal.
Fed dry from fir st m eal; m oist snd dry of persons who desired to raise a few
bftec fiv e d aya
of the birds found themselves unable to
First Feeding Tim*—3d to 48 hours.
get any local egga Inquiry showed
First Five Days Starting food five
that only a few flocks were to be
times a day, what they will eat in 15
minutes; grain mixture in tray of dry
mash always available; fuee grit, char
soal, bone and green food scattered over
other food; water.
After Fire Days—Drain twice a day
in lit tor; scanty feed of moist mash
throe time* a day; as chirks grow older,
two feeds of moist maah, then only one
—n t noon; water, grit, charcoal, cracked
bone, always at hand, and hopper fed
beef serap if ileeired; milk to drink,
(thicks should be hungry ones a day.
preferably in the morning.
On Kang*—Drain, dry mash, beef
•erap, grit, shell, bona, water, always at
Our Egg Exports.
Reports show that 121,000,000 dozens
of eggs were exported to foreign coun
tries during 12 months. From this it
would be reasonably safe to estimate
that the egg crop of this country
crowds the corn crop very closely, or
would if accurate returns could be ob
tained of the number of eggs consumed
in the homes of the farmers.
The number of eggs exported has
rapidly increased in the last few years.
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 nnd
cheap we would cousider 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 arc swelled anoint the
swollen part with common vaseline.
Continue this treatm‘nt 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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CONGRESSMAN DECLARES TEN-
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present generation to defend the
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and Carl Daenzer would find a new
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Mr. Bartholdt spoke at the unveiling
of a monument to the three German
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individual, the inherent right of self
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