1899 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
The Hen. 
PEAS FOR POULTRY FOOD. 
One of our readers in Maine -wishes to know 
the value of peas for feeding hens as an egg 
food. He says that wheat is too high, bringing 
$1.75 per 100 pounds, while peas bring $1.15. Peas 
are largely fed to pigeons, but few people seem 
to know how they will act with hens. Will you 
tell us what you can about this matter ? How 
may peas be mixed with other foods in order to 
make a good hen ration ? How many can safely 
be fed, and to what extent can they take the 
place of meat ? 
We think peas a first-class poultry- 
food. We have always had fine results 
in feeding peas, in both egg production 
and fertility. The great trouble is that 
none of our dealers keeps them, and we 
can seldom get them for feed. We 
recommend them highly for ducks. We 
do not think they would take the place 
of animal food, but would not be afraid 
to feed 40 to 50 per cent of them. 
Massachusetts. james rankin. 
Pea meal can be fed in a mixture with¬ 
out apparent disadvantage. How much 
can be fed to advantage I do not know, 
but we have fed for many months at a 
time a grain mixture of which one-fifth 
was pea meal. The pea meal represented 
about one-eighth of all the food eaten. 
So far as I know, peas are not readily 
eaten. A mixture of pea meal with other 
nitrogenous grain foods can be used to a 
limited extent where animal food is 
lacking, but our experience indicates 
that it is not profitable to attempt to do 
without a fair proportion of animal food. 
Geneva Ex. Station, w. p. wheeler. 
In this country, very few peas are 
grown ; wheat is so much cheaper that 
we have not thought it advisable to try 
peas in our experiments. Peas contain 
a higher per cent of egg-making material 
than either wheat or wheat bran. There 
is no reason why they cannot profitably 
replace much of the wheat in the ration, 
especially in Maine, where wheat costs so 
much more than peas. I would feed them 
very sparingly at first, say mix one part 
of pea meal with three parts of bran by 
weight for morning mash. Then, if the 
hens can be accustomed to eating the 
whole grain, they could be fed instead 
of wheat twice a week, or oftener at 
night. The composition of pea meal is 
more than one part protein to three parts 
carbohydrates and fat. A good nutritive 
ratio for laying hens is 1:4, and it 
is seldom that hens are fed so narrow a 
ration. So that in feeding peas, the same 
result is secured as in feeding cotton-seed 
meal, dried blood and lean meat; that 
is, the ratio is narrowed. The feeder, 
however, should be careful in changing 
from wheat to peas, to do so gradually, 
and watch the result on the egg yield 
two or three weeks after the change has 
been made. Peas should never, of course, 
constitute the only grain food given. 
Utah Ex. Station. james dryden. 
GET RID OF OLD BIRDS. 
In a majority of cases, a great number 
of fowls are kept till they die of old age, 
are housed together in too great num¬ 
bers, and the houses not properly clean¬ 
ed. Every bird over 18 to 20 months 
must be got rid of, and at once. Cull 
them very closely, and start afresh. 
There are certain seasons when this old 
stock can be marketed to good advant¬ 
age in most places. Don’t attempt too 
much, but gradually work up a business, 
and attend to the small details. Buy 
fresh cocks from a good breeder. If eggs 
are desired, and you wish to build up an 
egg-laying strain, buy cocks with that 
end in view, such as Leghorns, Minorcas, 
etc. If meat or table fowls is what is 
wanted, use a White P. Rock, White 
Wyandotte or, best of all, a White In¬ 
dian Game. The next season, buy a 
fresh supply of males, and get good, vig¬ 
orous, healthy birds. 
To succeed, one must look ahead ; al¬ 
ways be waiting for the seasons as they 
arrive. Don’t be driven, but always 
drive. It is late to give the following 
advice now, but buy breeders in the Fall, 
as they can then be bought much cheaper 
than later on ; the price in the middle of 
Winter will be from 10 to 25 per cent 
higher. Go to the nearest breeder, and 
select your own birds, and pick out good, 
strong, healthy birds, no matter if they 
do have one-quarter inch too much black 
on one feather, as long as they are 
healthy. d. Lincoln orr. 
Kerosene Emulsion. —Dissolve one pound of 
common soap in one gallon of hot water; add 
two gallons kerosene, and churn with a force 
pump, or stir lively until suds and kerosene as¬ 
sume the appearance of thick cream, and do not 
separate. For spraying inside poultry houses, 
add to the above quantity 10 to 15 gallons water, 
and mix well. It will kill every Insect it touches. 
FRED GRUNDY. 
Big Hen Story.— Seeing A Hen Story in The 
R. N.-Y. of February 4, I can tell a better one 
that happened on an adjoining farm a few years 
ago, and I can vouch for it. A hen was missed 
early in the Spring occasionally, and in due 
time, she appeared with 15 chicks. This was re¬ 
peated two more times, and singular to say, she 
raised all the chicks. A part of the flock were 
sold at 60 cents each, and the rest kept for breed¬ 
ers. So the account stands: 45 chicks or fowls 
at 60 cents, $27. Who can beat it? Common 
stock at that. s. h. s. 
Arcturus, Va. 
Horses and Eggs.— The transformation of 
horses into eggs sounds an impossible feat, but 
that is just what the thrifty Californians are 
doing. Horses are extremely cheap throughout 
the West; great numbers have been raised on 
the large ranches, and food is scarce. At San 
Jose, it is said that the animals can be bought 
for prices ranging from 25 cents to $3 50. Peta¬ 
luma is a great poultry-raising center, and the 
growth of this industry causes a demand for 
cheap food. Dealers began to cook horseflesh, 
and pack it in dry cakes, shipping it to the poul¬ 
try districts. This business has been extended, 
and now Petaluma packers prepare the meat 
cake, horses being slaughtered by the hundred 
for this use. It would look as though a hen 
might be a more profitable possession than a 
horse. 
The Devon Cow.—A writer in the Breeder’s 
Gazette thinks that, for a cow to produce both 
beef and butter on rough pasture, there is noth¬ 
ing better than the Devon. He says the Devons 
are hardy and active, good hustlers, and that 
they will put more logs on to a mill slide, or do 
more hard work than any other ox, horse or 
mule. He first began farming on swampy pas¬ 
ture land, and the Devons did well where larger 
cattle would not feed. Afterwards, he changed 
his place for a very hilly farm, and the Devons 
were all right there. They would feed where a 
sheep would go, and on ground which the larger 
cattle would not dare attempt. The large cattle 
kept on level ground, and looked to the barn for 
the rest of their feed. This man says that, if he 
wanted only butter and heifer calves, and was 
willing to knock all the bull calves in the head 
at three days old, the Jerseys would answer, but 
for all purposes—beef, butter and milk—the 
Devon beats them all for Michigan. 
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