February, 19 13 



AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



A WINTER RATION FOR POULTRY 



THERE are many good poultry ra- 

 tions," says the Southern Agriculturist, 

 "that can be used for the various grains and 

 protein feeds can be combined in a number 

 of different ways to produce practically the 

 same results. The good poultryman 

 usually feeds the cheaper grains where 

 these fill the bill. For instance, oats make 

 a very good poultry food rightly fed, but 

 are so high some years that other grains 

 can be fed in their place at a profit. How- 

 ever, the ration must be well balanced, and 

 there must be a liberal supply of protein 

 foods as well as the more common fat- 

 producing ones. Corn alone will not do. 

 Here is a ration which has given very 

 satisfactory results: Grain ration — Wheat 

 two parts, cracked corn two parts, oats one 

 part. Mash — Middlings six parts, corn 

 meal six parts, bran three parts, linseed 

 meal one part, alfalfa one part, beef scrap 

 five parts. Green food — Mangels, cabbage, 

 rape, etc. Proportions are given by weight. 

 The grain should be fed lightly in the 

 morning, with a heavier feed at night, and 

 always in litter, so that the fowls will have 

 to exercise to scratch it up. This is the 

 object of using the cracked corn. The 

 fowls gobble up the whole corn too easily. 

 The mash may be left before the hens all 

 the time or may be fed in troughs as a 

 mid-day feed. Green stuffs is very essential 

 where fowls cannot be put on pasture. Dry 

 alfalfa contains nearly 15 per cent, pro- 

 tein, which makes it better than other kinds 

 of hay for poultry. The meal form is no 

 better than fine-cut hay, and is even more 

 likely to be adulterated. But no dry food 

 of this kind can quite take the place of 

 sprouted oats, or of roots or cabbage, even 

 though the protein content may be higher. 



PANAMA PACIFIC EXPOSITION 



IN an address delivered before the New 

 York Electrical Society by John A. Brit- 

 ton, some interesting information was given 

 on the Panama Pacific Exposition. The de- 

 velopment of the Exposition has progressed 

 so far, Mr. Britton said, that the work is 

 eight months ahead of schedule time. 



The first structure, the Administration 

 Building, is almost complete. The founda- 

 tion has been laid for the Machinery Hall, 

 a structure over 600 feet long and 320 feet 

 wide. Approximately 600 acres of land 

 over the bay shore have been filled in. 

 About 1,500 houses that covered the site 

 have been bought, besides a number of 

 manufactories. The streets of the Exposi- 

 tion have been laid out. Already some 

 60,000 trees and shrubs have been planted. 

 Soon 40,000 more will be set out. 



Thus far $16,000,000 has been raised, to 

 which some $6,000,000 was contributed by 

 the public of San Francisco, $5,000,000 

 given by the State and $5,000,000 by the 

 City. When the doors of the Exposition 

 are opened there will be no debts. 



The area covered by the Exposition will 

 be 1,100 acres. On both sides, east and 

 west, it will be flanked by the Government 

 Reservation, to the extreme west by the 

 Presidio, one of the most beautiful reserva- 

 tions of the Government located anywhere. 

 A strip of land along the shore of San 

 Francisco has been given to the Exposition 

 and a boulevard will be built from the Ex- 

 position through the Presidio grounds to 

 Golden Gate Park on the extreme western 

 end of San Francisco. On the east the 

 -ition is flanked by Fort Mason, an- 

 other Government Reservation, and by the 

 - , recently built by the Government at 

 a very great expense. 



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