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THE GARDEN MAGAZINE 



January, 1908 



No. 76— Red Cross 



G taxed Kid 

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The Red Cross Shoe is a revolution in 

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Our free book, "A Lovable Shoe," tells 

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dry straw which absorbs moisture, is excel- 

 lent. The floor should be covered with 

 straw or other good litter, in which the grain 

 is fed so that the birds will have to scratch 

 for their food. Exercise is conducive to 

 health and vigor. Healthy hens lay fertile, 

 strong-germed eggs, which hatch vigorous 

 chicks. Let the hens run out doors as much 

 as possible, regardless of weather. 



Grit is necessary, charcoal is conducive 

 to health, but little oyster shell will be needed 

 when the hens are not laying. It is orthodox 

 to say that poultry must have a supply of 

 pure water, but after seeing them repeatedly 

 leave a full water dish to eat snow ; also know- 

 ing of a large egg farm in New England where 

 snow is fed the hens instead of water, I don't 

 know. But they must have moisture in 

 some form. 



Succulent feed is needed. Cabbage is 

 good, so are beets, mangel-wurzels, apples, 

 potatoes and almost any kind of vegetable 

 trimmings. Cut clover scalded or steamed 

 is convenient and excellent. Alfalfa is 

 better than clover. The dried beet pulp 

 which is sold for cattle feed adds variety, 

 and is relished. 



For the man with few hens, who must 

 buy small quantities of grain some of the 

 special mixed feeds sold by the reliable poul- 

 try supply houses are probably better than 

 anything the tyro can compound, not much 

 more expensive, and a great deal more con- 

 venient. I know a one thousand hen man 

 who uses these largely because of their 

 convenience. But most of these mixtures 

 are for laying hens, and are a little too 

 stimulating if eggs are not desired. 



A good mash mixture for laying hens, to 

 be fed once daily, consists of fifty pounds each 

 of wheat bran, middlings, corn meal, and 

 ground oats ; twenty-five pounds linseed meal; 

 ten pounds granulated charcoal, andone-tenth 

 the weight of the whole of good beef scrap. 

 Fifty pounds gluten feed or meal in place of 

 the corn meal would be an improvement. 

 Good buckwheat middlings are also excel- 

 lent but often hard to get. Green cut bone 

 three or four times a week in place of the beef 

 scrap is a good exchange. Fifty pounds of 

 short-cut green clover with this mixture, 

 steamed or scalded, will furnish succulence. 

 This may be fed either as a dry or wet mash. 

 Milk is first class as a mixer. In connection 

 with it, feed in the litter, a mixture of wheat, 

 corn and oats, with possibly the addition of 

 some barley, buckwheat, kaffir corn, millet 

 seed, according to cost. The warmer the 

 weather or climate, the less corn should be fed. 

 Sometimes a good quality of wheat screen- 

 ings may prove profitable, but be careful. 

 Some of them aren't worth the freight. 



The use of so-called condition powders, 

 egg foods, etc., is of doubtful value. An 

 occasional addition of cayenne pepper to 

 the mash is a good stimulant. 



The breeding pens should be made up for 

 the season not later than January. If you 

 have a place to care for them, it may be well 

 to hatch some chicks before the end of 

 February, for early broilers and next fall's 

 layers. 



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