1908 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



601 



SPROUTED GRAINS FOR POULTRY AND OTHER DO- 

 MESTIC ANIMALS, BY PKOF. FORBES, OF THE 

 DEPARTMENT OF NUTRITION, OIUO EX- 

 PERIMENT STATION, WOOSTER. 



I take pleasure in submitting the following, from 

 our Ohio Exvieriment Station, in regard to the food 

 value of sprouted grains— see page ,512. Of course, 

 we shall have to waiffor some accurate experiments 

 before coming to a conclusion in regard to the matter. 

 But it would seem from the above that sprouted grains 

 are a benefit in giving the animals variety, even if 

 they do not result in a great saving in the expense of 

 grain feed. We are in hopes there may be at leaht 

 some truth in the claim that there is a great saving in 

 the amount of grain fed in this way to the poultry. 



Wix.STKlt. O.. April 17. 1908. 



Mr. Knot : — Your inquiry regardlDjr sprouted grain lias been 

 referred to me for reply. There has recently been organized 

 here at Wooster a department of nutrition for the study of 

 just such problems as the one you suggest. I have been Inter- 

 ested for several years in just the point you raise, but have 

 not bad opportunity to work it out. I intend to take It up at 

 an early date, however. Several years ago there was a firm at 

 the stock-yards in Chicago which sold a germinator for use 

 with grain intended for feeding, and they maintained a con- 

 tinuous demonstration of the appliance, using several kinds of 

 animals, mostly old '■ skates " of one sort and another, such as 

 do not usually get any valuable feed. They had no dlfliculty 

 in getting these old animals rolling fat. They put out an ex- 

 travagant and ignorant booklet advertising the germinator, 

 but went out of business some time ago. I wrote a number of 

 letters a couple of years ago trying to get hold of one of their 

 germinators. but could get no trace of them. 



There is surely an increased digestibility with sprouting. 

 and there is also a change of phosphorus from various forms 

 to lecithin, a compound characteristic of structures in which 

 intense vital activity has been provided for, and which physi- 

 ologists consider to be of great nutritive value. 1 have no 

 definite Information on the subject of food value, but would 

 judge that the improvement might pay for the handling where 

 grain Is expensive. I shall go into the matter at an early 

 date. E. B. Forbes. 



SAVING CHICKENS THAT WOULD OTHERWISE HAVE 

 DIED IN THE SHELL. 



Quite a good deal of interest seems called forth in 

 regard to this new discovery. It is not exactly new, 

 however, because many people practice more or less 

 helping chickens out of the shell toward the close of 

 the hatch, I believe the manufacturers of incubators 

 claim it does not pay. There can be no objection, 

 however, to experimenting with eggs that are not 

 hatched before the 22d day. Philo thinks that many 

 chicks fail to break the shell for lack of air-probably 

 because the shell is too heavy, and may be because 

 the pores are more or less closed. He recommends 

 making an opening with the point of a knife into the 

 air cell. Ehis gives the chiok air, and as a matter 

 of course, more strength. Then if the egg is wrapped 

 in a wet cloth to soften the shell, the chicken will or- 

 dinarily succeed in getting out. If it coes not, you 

 can carefully break away more of the shell. Two 

 years ago I saved stveral chickens that did not seem 

 to have the strength to get out after they had pierced 

 the shell. After the incubator is opened, the glutinous 

 matter dries down so as to fetter the chicks, seeming- 

 ly. I have soaked chicken and all in quite warm wa- 

 ter, washed them up clean, put them back in the in- 

 cubator, wrapped them in a wet cloth, and succeeded, 

 I believe, almost every time. One of the boys who 

 was running the baby-chicken establishments I have 

 mentioned said he had also saved chicks in this way; 

 but it took so much time to fuss with them that it was I 



something of a question whether it paid or not. 

 Where you have nothing else to do I think I would 

 try to save all the eggs in this way where either hen 

 or Incubator seems to fail. 



Convention Notices. 



RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT. 



Whereas, There has passed from this life our able 

 and gifted member, Henry Alley, whose long experi- 

 ence, and genius and skill, caused him to be widely 

 known and recognized as an authority in his art, 

 therefore it is 



Resolved That in his death the Massachusetts Soci- 

 ety of Bee-keepers, and apiculture in general, bear a 

 loss that will be keenly felt: and it is further 



Resolved, That we tender to his family our deep 

 and heartfelt sympathy, and that a copy of these reso- 

 lutions be sent to them and also placed on our records 

 as a tribute to his memory. X. A. Reed, Sec 



Belmont, Mass. 



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 their money to support the Association, and we owe 

 it to them to give them a complete and accurate re- 

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 is Mr. Geo. Angus, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada He 

 has had a lot of experience in reporting nee conven- 

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 pleased to be able to announce that we have secured 

 his services for the coming convention at Detroit, 

 and those who find it impossible to attend may com- 

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 own firesides and read exactly what was said and done. 

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