60 POULTKY FEEDING AND FATTENING 



low in price or home raised. Buekwlieat middlings are 

 rich in egg matei'ial and a good mixture with corn 

 meal. The same may be said of rye bran, but whole 

 rye is thought to cause bowel trouble if fed freely. 



Homemade Egg Food — The majority of egg foods 

 are composed of those elements that enter into the com- 

 position of an egg, and their success depends upon the 

 fact that they su.pply material which is often overlooked 

 1)y tlwse wlio keep poultry. For instance, ground bone, 

 ground meat, salt and charcoal are ingxedients — the 

 first to supply the phosphates ; the second the albumen ; 

 the third, that which is not often supplied, and the 

 fourth a coirective. Hence two pounds of ground 

 bones, two j^ounds of ground meat, four ounces of salt, 

 a pound of charcoal, two jjounds of linseed meal, with 

 an oimce each of sulphur, baking soda and ginger, 

 makes a very good egg food, which may -be given to 

 six fowls daily, using a gill mixed with other food. 



Egg Producer — Exhaustive experiments have 

 proved tliat the use of an egg stimulant, while it forces 

 tlie pullets to earlier la}'ing, does not increase the total 

 yearly egg yield and that tliere is no profit in its use. 

 For those who' wish to use something of the kind, the 

 following formula may be prepared for about thirty-five 

 cents and will give an egg produ.cer as effective as 

 anything : Cantharides, ninety grains ; ginger, thirty 

 ounces; gentian, one and one-half ounces; capsicum, 

 six ounces ; Venetian red, two ounces ; sulphur, three 

 ounces ; charcoal, one ounce ; oil meal, thirty ounces ; 

 all should be ground finely and well mixed. Use one 

 and one-half tcaspoonfuls to the quart of hot mash, 

 wliich is enough for twelve average fowls. 



Condition powders are mainly composed of stim- 

 ulating, spice-like drugs, such as gentian, fenugreelv, 

 anise seed, ginger, etc. Tlie effects are because of tlie 

 tonic or stimulating nature of the materials emplo3fed. 



