| Show mowa 7 COD LIVER OIL IS GREAT NEED found indispensable where chicks brooded blooded indoors where chicks are raised indoors and not in direct sunshine they need cod liver oil in the ration the material does docs not cause bowel trouble rouble is as many poultry men seem see to think inflammation of the bowels and similar troubles with chicks Is due to one of tour four causes a virus round worms tape worms or chronic coc cid losis says dr B P F kaupp at the north carolina state slate college not only does our experimental evidence rule out cod liver oil as a cause of this bowel trouble but it seems to rule out feed altogether we have found that cod liver oil Is indispensable where chicks lire are brood ed in batteries or indoors it produces greater resistance to disease and promotes better health this means better growth and more eggs to date n no 0 substitute S ab S t itule for this material in the ration has been found doctor kaupp says that he has data on hundreds of tests made during the past 15 pears in no case has serious bowel trouble developed where cod liver oil was used in the tests oil was mixed with the mash at different times some of it wit was s held four to six months before the feeding experiments were completed and in no case did the records show either clinically or in post mortem a serious bowel trouble the test did show that there are too many flocks of weal weak constitutional vigor and high death rate yet when the vit arnine deficiencies were supplemented with a good grade of oil and mineral supplements used along with proper proportions of protein health with all its natural resistance to disease was built up health vigor and strength must be put into the be chicks early in life by a rich properly balanced starting mabb says doctor kaupp poultry raising made profitable to farmer poultry raising should be made one of the most profitable industries on the farm there are thousands of farms in the country today where a few fowls are kept that tire are given no attention whatever aside from an oc cas ional feed of corn and other grain says the southern cultivator they are left to shift for themselves to ent eat what they can find about the yards and barn lots lot and to roost on fences and trees in winter and summer and ana yet their owners will tell you that by the sale of chickens and eggs from these neglected mongrel broods half the food and clothing clot liing of their families Is supplied like soils that are never and half cultivated the returns are tenfold ten tel fold more than are de served the farmer should be a successful lie he has many ad vantages for carrying on the business profitably that the average breeder does not possess if tie lie has as an improved breed of fowls and the necessary accommodations in the way of houses and yards and knows how to feed and care for his flocks lie can raise chickens at a very small cost cockerels cockerell Cocker els as broilers preferred to capons camons according to experiments conducted nt at the poultry department at tit the e state college of agriculture in new york there Is a very small margin of grobi in growing capons camons compared to selling the cockerels cockerell cocker els as broilers aeed seems to be the greatest item of extra cost in some sections relatively tow low feed costs arid and a high price for capons on account of good demand might make the busl business ness very profitable in other localities the matter of teed feed housing and labor over the period of six or eight months very often eats up the margin between tile the price obtain obtainable ab e for the broilers and the price for the capons camons on the other hand ban canons capons have proved exceptionally profitable for fo bany lany |
