POULTRY FEEDING.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13497, 17 June 1914, Page 2

POULTRY FEEDING.

One authority on poultry keeping states: Feeding of- poultry is a. most important item ; as, if you do not givo tho right sort of stuff to the hens you will not get the right sort of stuff (eggs, in this case). Tho right way of feeding for winter eggs is this: Cut a kerosene tin down, turn back the sharp edges, knock a, hole .through on each side, and stick in a handle. Keep this pot in the kitchen.' Pour a little water in for a start. During the day throw into the pot all the table and house scraps (bits of bread, bones, meat, vegetable odds and ends, potato parings, etc.). Next morning add more water and boil on the stove. When thoroughly cooked, stir in bran until the liquid is absorbed (if there is too much, pour some out). Then put some- j>ollard on top of the mass and go away and water tho birds, or do something else, for a quarter of an hour. Come back and work in the pollard until the mixturo is nice and crumbly, and feed it when warm, not hot. Tho- steeping of the bran renders it more digestible, and considerably increases its feeding value. Feed as much of the mash as tho birds will eat up quickly and heartily; don't throw it on the ground, but, instead, place it in a shallow tin, dish, or small box. At midday some sort of green stuff should be fed, and an hour before dusk (say, 4.30 at this time of tho year), wheat should be thrown into the litter at tho rate of about half a handful to each bird. In the shed should be a box, or tin, containing shell grit 1 (to make the eggshells), charcoal (to > act as an internal filter and absorbent), " and sharp stone grit, or river sand (for ! the purpose of pounding up the wheat : ■ —fowls have no teeth, you know),'and ! the box shoul'.] be so fixed that the birds can get only their heads in. If they are able to get their bodies in, they strutch the stuff out, and it will be ( wasted, besides which, if they are white birds, the charcoal will cause them to become soiled and dirty. With a shed fixed up as indicated, the fowls- will lay well in the coldest weather, the eggs will always be clean, and there will be no wet muddy yard to walk through. It is quite the best way of keeping fowls in the suburban back-yards-Exchange.