Rich County Reaper | 1929-07-26 | Page 2 | Value of Sulphur and Charcoal for Fowls

value of sulphur and charcoal for fowls sulphur Is a medicine and not a food true small quantities of it may be found in nil all our grains as in some other articles of feed but sulphur as found in grain la is combined bin edwith with some other substance which counterbalances it there are times when sulphur Is beneficial if judiciously administered writes Mich michael nel K R doyer in the farm and ranch it must not be recklessly given and never during wet or damp weather as its use at such times Is apt to cause rheumatic troubles or a stiffening of the joints sulphur Is a blood purifier and often loften wards oft off disease and invigorates a rundown run down system cases a teaspoonful once a week mixed with the mash for about twenty hens would be about right hut but even so small a quantity as this should be given give only during a dry period charcoal consists almost entirely of carbon lt it Is prepared by heating wood so as to expel all the gaseous matter it contains ammonia Is a gase gaseous outi compound alkaline like potassa and Is often termed spirits of hartshorn dyben charcoal Is properly treated there will not remain sufficient ammonia to 6 be e injurious to animal life any impurities that charcoal might contain would be absorbed through gli atmospheric mo conditions