Show M ulrey UN IF HOW TO MAXE MAKE CUT IN RATION COSTS use home grown grains Is advice of expert substantial savings in the poultry ration way may be made by using an abundance of home grown grains in rations for the farm flock according to poultry specialists in the department of poultry husbandry at the ohio state university grains and milk they believe constitutes c on utes the simplest elm rations known tor for satisfactory results it Is best beat to keep two or more grains in feeders all the time and to give the birds only milk to drink the choice of grains and the proportions that may be used can be varied according to their price and availability if sufficient euni clent liquid milk Is not available allow the birds free access to meat scraps alone or witla with dried milk in hoppers and give w water ater to drink any change in this system of feeding the specialists say should be made gradually if the birds obtain water from the range or elsewhere when they are receiving liquid milk the protein intake of the ration will be too low unless meat scrip scrap or dried milk or both are kept available in hoppers legume hay such its as alfalfa soy boy bean or clover Is best available at all times it if the flock does not have access to green grass or if yellow corn loca does not constitute 50 per cent or more of the grains fed birds kept in confinement are best sup supplied piled with cod liver oil this may inny be fed by sprinkling one half pint of cold liver oil per birds over the scratch grain in the hoppers every other day easy to minimize loss from hens eating eggs complaints ot ol hens eating eggs dropped on the floor or in the nests of the pens are quite common the habit usually starts from hens finding a cracked egg curiosity and appetite are the incentives that lead the hens to taste the contents of the egg being very paIn palatable tabIe they take advantage of every such opportunity and soon look for eggs whether broken or not if the nests are kept dark there will be little trouble from layers offending if the eggs are gathered regularly from the floor that will minimize the loss at that point it if the contents of the normal clas are removed r through one end iad aid the f Is refilled with a mixture containing mustard pepper gasoline and other oth ingredients distasteful to hens combined with any substance that will hold them together in a paste some may be cured of the habit if they taste the concoction easy way to get eggs otto harz of the greenleaf comma anity nit in washington county purchased some white leghorn males a few days ago to use in breeding up his flock in commenting on that transaction leonard F neff of washington the farm agent of washington county mentioned a project carried on at the kansas experiment station at manhattan BIOn mongrel grel liens hens having a trap nest record of 72 eggs a year were mated with pedigreed leghorn males having an ancestry record of eggs or more their daughters averaged eggs the next cross ISS eggs and the third cross eggs kansas hansas farmer poultry facts A pen of white leghorns Leg horns owned by I 1 J A hinson corvallis ore led in the illinois egg laying contest in january with eggs for the month 0 As an aid to sanitation 1 tati clean newspapers can be spread over the litter when are first placed under the lie hover these papers should be changed dally daily for ten days dont think chickens can be fed at any time and thrive nave have a certain time for feeding them and feed them yourself chicks left to the care of others are often neglected 0 twenty five million eggs are a lot of eggs but that Is the number used annually by one chain of big city restaurants painting the roosts boosts with nicotine sulphate just before the birds go to roost at night is recommended as a control tra of feather mites on poultry the brooder house should always bt bc placed far enough from the other buildings so that it if the worst comes it wont involve other farm buildings 0 culling baby chicks should begin when they are removed from the incubator trays those that are listless do not seem able to run about and have no apparent appetite should be discarded present economic conditions make necessary the effort to keep down household expenditures and a flock of chicks in the back yard will not only help keep down the outlay for food but will add a great deal to the pleasure of living |