999 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 51 



QUESTION Should fowls be fed every time they fly around tta 

 keeper, giving unmistakable evidence that they want food? 



ANSWER No. Fowls soon learn to do this and many people 

 keep their flocks constantly overfed on this account. Feed at regu- 

 lar intervals and don't feed more than you know is proper. A bird 

 should be hungry enough to eat a little at all times. 



QUESTION When is the proper time to cut clover hay for car- 

 ing for .poultry food ? 



ANSWER When about two-thirds of the heads have turned 

 brown. 



QUESTION What is a good ration for laying hens and in what 

 quantities should it be fed ? 



ANSWER Use a mash mixture made as follows: Oats, 15 

 pounds ; corn meal, 5 pounds ; bran, 5 pounds ; shorts or wheat mid- 

 dlings, 5 pounds ; clover meal, 10 pounds ; meat meal or cut green 

 bone, 10 pounds, making 50 pounds of a dry mixture. For a flock 

 of 25 hens give four pounds of this mixture each morning, made 

 into a crumbling mash by wetting with water or skim milk if ob- 

 tainable. At noon give one quart of wheat and at night one quart 

 of corn. The noon and night feeds should be given in deep litter 

 and the grains can be alternated, giving corn and wheat one day and 

 wheat and oats the next, or corn and oats. The idea is to give a 

 change. This ration is for fowls that do net have access to a range 

 but are confined in houses and runs practically free from vegetation. 

 If free range can be given at a season of the year when animal and 

 green food can be obtained by the fowls, omit the noon meal and 

 do not use the clover meal and meat meal or green cut bone in the 

 mash. 



QUESTION What is the recipe for Johnny cake, so oiten recom- 

 mended for feeding young chicks ? 



ANSWER One part ground oats, one part wheat bran, one part 

 corn meal. Mix with skim milk, sour milk or butter milk and bake 

 it. A little ground charcoal may be added and it may also be slightly 

 seasoned with salt. 



QUESTION What is the difference between green bone and raw 

 ground bone ? 



ANSWER By green bone is meant bone fresh from the butcher's 

 which contains all the natural juices and has more or less fresh meat 

 adhering to it. Raw ground bone is made from these same bones 

 after they have become thoroughly dried out and have lost a large 

 portion if not practically all the valueble properties of fresh cut 

 bone. 



