Show POULTRY ON THE FARM Some Attention Paid to This End of the Stock Raising Industry Tho day has gone when the euro of poultry on the farm consists of letting let-ting them range at large during tho summer and throwing the hens a bit of corn for their feed during tho winter win-ter allowing them access to the snow rift I for their water supply To be sure poultry can eke out an existence with this treatment now as well us formerly but if It did not pay when eggs were from 3 I to 7 cents per dozen it surely can not pay now when tho rate Is from 15 to 50 cents The farmer has an advantage over the city dweller as ho Is able to produce pro-duce a largo partof the mixed ration necessary for the profitable feeding of poultry Still on most farms It will not bo unwise or unprofitable to buy some of the materials needed to give the poultry a mixed ration during dur-ing the winter if it is not profitable In the summer There are but few farms upon which with a little care most of the material for n mixed ration can bo raised There are Homo farms so situated or the Boll of which is of such a composition com-position that It may be necessary to buy the grit supply Upon many more a supply of protein may bo bought cheaper In tho form of beef scraps than produced upon the farm Likewise Like-wise where poultry Is kept In largo numbers the necessary supply of charcoal may have to be purchased unless the consumption of wood happens hap-pens to be large on this farm If the farmer has not given the subject thought he may not realize that the fodder produced on the ordinary ordi-nary farm does not give enough of a supply of green food for tho poultry during the winter With some n supply sup-ply of green food may be secured either by raising clover or cowpens both of which will besides giving a supply of green stuff glvo an abundant abun-dant supply of nitrogen If the farmer cares to raise neither of these he may supply the vegetable food needed in tho shape of cabbage turnips or beets preferably the latter as the users of hlgh priced eggs sometimes stipulate that the hens shall be fed on cabbage or other substances that may give an off flavor to the eggs After provision has been made for A variety of food says the Farmers Voice care must bo taken that the poultry especially the laying hens have an abundant supply of water if they are not given skim milk or tho egg supply will be shortened We know from actual experience that 25 hens will use a gallon of water a day during cold weather If they are permitted per-mitted to get at It readily and as frequently fre-quently as they like We do not warrant any one an abundant abun-dant supply of eggs oven with a mixed ration and plenty of water if their fowls are old hens or Immature Imma-ture pullets but with pullets mature by the Ht of November or hens not more than 18 months old at the beginning be-ginning of the winter laying season eggs should be obtained In paying quantities After tho eggs arc gathered It Is not necessary to trade them to the grocer for whatever he Is disposed to give for them Fresh eggs during tho winter are In demand nt god prices In n very largo city Indeed many towns will use a small number at a premium over the price of store eggsor storage eggs The producer of winter eggs can easily find a market mar-ket for his product at paying prices |