| Show EGGS IN WINTER WINTE Ii I 1 rl r l I 1 and 4 4 genof 1 0 poultry I 1 C Cold Weather f r I 1 A comfortable poultry y house can ls 1 cheaply and find expeditiously made in the corner of a barn shed or any outbuilding it should be cheerfully lighted and face tho the south or west it if convenient tarred felt pap r makes a good lining and is obnoxious to vermin tho the lionso house should be divided into pens largo large enough to hold twenty fowls and no more fowls do better in small colonies tha the laying stock must not be crowded or the they will not bo be layers long tho the temi in the coldest weather should ba be high enough bof keep the water fro from in 4 freezing i at tiny rate warm enough to prevent t ali of the layers from freeli freezing ng A wooden floor la is better than any other kind in the cold weather tho best c e floors will mt zit dauo a va Z w t I 1 I 1 keep so and damp is disease r is allu ami and ileath to poultry the best roost ia is aa a 2 by 4 inch scantling put broadside over two 13 inch in 14 1 4 to boards forming a plat platform forn to 0 catch tha the droppings which as manure Is a worth seventy five cents to one dollar per barrel heavy fowls should not hare have to jump more than eighteen inches E each ach pen should contain a dust bath BO so that the fowls can roll in the tile dry dust and keep down lice A small box to hold broken ouster oyster shells old mortar gravel crockery broken into small pieces etc some of these substances are absolutely necessary to furnish grit to grind up the food they are the hens liens teeth A certain amount goes to furnish lime for the egg shell but much of the lime for this purpose cau ca be ghen given in the shape of proper food the tile bens hens should be kept in constant activity A lazy hen bell is never a laying one cut straw hay bay chaff or dry leaves should be scattered liberally on the floor of each compartment and in this all grain fed should be thrown so that the hens liens will be kept scratching tor for it A cabbage suspended from the root roof or ceier cc if ing high enough to make the hens jam jump at it is a capital way of keeping them them busy occasionally substitute a piece of cows liver lights or any tough sort of aeilt fo for r the cabbage in very cold weather lier the chill should be taken off tha the nater water for drink laying LI ing fowls require plenty of fresh water hence the importance of having the house warm enough to prevent wat water er freezing take Ta kenway iway all the male birds bird from tha the laying 1 ing hens th the cock bird 1 la a n nuisance in the pen of layers la era lie ile not only monopolizes the most of the food but teaches the liens to break eggs booda an and to iso learn to eat them besides the stimulating diet ia is too fattening for him and will ruin him as a breeder in the cold cohl tt eather weather of winter w inter a warm w irm meal in the morning is necessary to start and keep up a it steady supply of eggs A good plan is to throw aletho all the waste aste of the kit kitchen chenin in the shape a pe of meat scraps pieces of bread uneaten vegetables etc into a pot heat beat up in the mornin morning gm till nearly boiling and then mix bran provender shorts or whatever inmost ia most abundant or cheap on the farm luto into the hot m mess e as ousting austing in in a small quantity of red pepper before mixing let the mixture stand for a 9 few minutes until the meal ift is nearly couke then feed in a clean tr troug ouli li with laths baths over it to keep the inns liens frim from jumping in and fouling or wasting the feed in their eager anxiety feed only enough of this tills soft to barely satisfy never enough to gorge when a it lien hen his hits had so much food that she will go into a borner corner aid wid mopo copo she lias has had too iauch and if the over feeding la Is con continued tinned will soon cease to lay the laying hens are the active e odes ones it if food ia is given at noon it should bo be oats and scattered among the litter oa the floor this meal should bo be it light tile last food in the afternoon should be generous generou each hen should ba be sent to rm boost with a full crop to carry her over all the night green food in the shapo shape of vegetables ege e tables usually grown on every farm will be relished by the tile layers cabbages cabb ages iges turnips carrots are generally the tile most convenient small potatoes boiled and mixed with provender or bran is a good change for the morning meal some of the above named vegetables should hould a always ba be in the pens of the la ln i era er there IA 14 no danger of their eating too much red clover hay lay steamed chopped and mixed with bran and given while hot is one of the tile healthiest foods for the morning meal ideal in somo sonio shape must bo be given at least twice a it week vf tk to furnish blood making material liens ilens fed on meat liy lay well w 11 it given gi en no meat the hens will eat their eggs and pick feathers from front one another in cold weather warm the grain grai it feed what would be generous and stimulating diet tor for leghorns Leg Legli horns orns minorca and others of the family would bo be too fattening for plymouth PI mouth rocks or Dr alimas As be before stated give enough to keep the tile hens b ens active when meat is given it is not necessary to ghe five so much grain for instance it if meat ia is fed at noon it will bo be only necessary to scatter a few handfuls hind fuls of oats in each pen to keep the ini inmates nates at work when a hen becomes too fat she will lay soft shelled eggs where plenty of is to be had as via one of the cheapest articles of food a it greater quantity of oats may be given wheat is the best all round food the waste of the firm farin in in conjunction with meat and the liot lot morning meal meat and ex arci eibin v ill bring plenty of eggs beyond question the best all round fowl for the fanner farmer is the plymouth PI mouth rock the two best beat breeds are the ply mouth ro rock nud and the white leghorn for the reason reason as the tile tables published in ili a preceding part of the report proves that the plymouth rocks put on oil flesh more rapidly rapi ill and th alie white eWhite leg leghorn gliori lug lays moie more eggs th thin nav any 0 other of the tile st standard andara breeds C closel arl following como come tile aa as an early flesh pro 1 deicer and la er then follow the brah mis inas but ut thay alie are slower in develop ment A u other advantage in keeping plymouth kocka and leghorns Leg horns is in that w while hile the plymouth rock rc k hens are hatching hatchi iio chickens after laying all winter the Legg homs b bung ing On sitters a will gd go on oil labing and kiy y the expense in cuned curow while the tile other breed is is sitting report of ottawa central experimental furm |
