The Farmers' Guide Book (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 edition. Excerpt: ...by giving a light feeding of grain in the morning and about all they will consume at the afternoon feeding (in time to find grain before dark). In case of pullets or fowls in heavy laying, restrict both night and morning feeding to induce heavy eating of dry mash, especially in the case of hens. This ration should be supplemented with beets, cabbage, sprouted oats, green clover or other succulent food, unless running on grass covered range. Grit, cracked oyster shells and charcoal should be accessible at all times. Green food should not be fed in a frozen condition. All feed and litter used should be strictly sweet, clean and free from mustiness, mould or decay. Serious losses frequently occur from disease, due to the fowls taking into their bodies, through their intestinal tract or lungs, the spores of the fungus causing moulds.--Dept. of Poultry Husbandry, Cornell University. Contest Rations. At the egg contest at Storrs, Conn., the following grain mixture was fed: Coarse wheat bran 200 pounds Cornmeal 100 Gluten feed 100 Standard middlings 75 Fish scrap 30 Beef scrap 30 Low grade flour 25 There were little boxes holding grit, shells and charcoal which the hens took as they liked. There was also provided a "scratch grain" made up as follows: Cracked corn 60 pounds Wheat 60 Heavy white oats 40 Barley 20 Kafir corn 10 Buckwheat 10 Coarse beef scrap 10 OTHER GOOD FEEDING MIXTURES. No. 1. Dry Mash. Corn meal 10 pounds Wheat bran 10" Wheat middlings 10" Oil meal 5" Beef scrap 5 No. 2. Young Chicks on the Range. Boil rice until well done. When thoroughly cooked, mix it with one-half the quantity of white corn-meal. Add cold water sufficient to make a good soft dough. Grease a baking tin, spread this dough thinly over the pan, ...