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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
May 9 
FEEDING A HEN. 
Part XVI 
We are now ready to take up some of 
those points raised by Mr. Truslow on 
page 282. It will pay you first to turn 
back and read that article over. Then 
we may be the better able to think over 
what Mr. Cushman says in the following 
article. Mr. Cushman has charge of the 
may be, when cooked, too rich for the 
digestive apparatus of the fowls. Even 
if digested, it causes irritation or con¬ 
gestion of the bowels, cannot be ab¬ 
sorbed, and is hurried along and out. 
If much water be added to cooked food 
or uncooked food, it makes it less digest¬ 
ive, less quickly or easily absorbed, and 
more loosening. I want my cooked mess 
for fowls to be stiff like putty. No 
sloppy mess for me. 
Sloppy and Bulky Food. —Ducks and 
geese can stand more sloppy food, as it 
is their nature ; but I imagine that feed¬ 
ers who feed heavily, go too far in this 
direction, and that more hard grain 
poultry department of the Rhode Island 
Experiment Station. Rhode Island is a 
famous State for turkeys, ducks and 
geese : 
Notes on Food and Feeding. 
Droppings and Charcoal. —The ap¬ 
pearance of the droppings of fowls is a 
good indication of the effect of the food 
given hens, ducks, geese, turkeys and 
all fowls ; in fact, it is the best means of 
judging their thrift and health. No ex¬ 
perienced raiser fails to watch closely, 
and change their feed accordingly. 
Looseness in fowls and turkeys, 
shows that something is wrong. Hens 
with droppings firm enough to roll off 
the board, are in a normal condition, 
and less liable to disease. More fertile 
eggs will be secured from such fowls 
than from those from which the drop¬ 
pings are softer. Charcoal is a very im¬ 
portant article to give poultry. It neu¬ 
tralizes the products of indigestion, and 
seems to stimulate digestion. Charcoal 
bought of the burners, broken up with 
a hatchet, and crushed in an Enterprise 
mill, sifted through a coal sieve lined 
with ordinary wire window netting, 
would cause the birds to be less logy 
and dull, and increase the per cent of 
the fertility of the eggs. However, 
there is another very important con¬ 
sideration, which is that bulk, waste, or 
indigestible material, should be com¬ 
bined with, and constitute a good pro¬ 
portion of, the food of fowls. The same 
food that would cause looseness by 
itself, may be held and digested if a cer¬ 
tain amount of chaff, cut straw, or even 
sawdust be added. This is a well-known 
fact among feeders of horses and cattle. 
Feed a horse or cow grain and no hay 
and what would be the result ? The hen 
at liberty can look out for herself, and 
get just about what she needs, except, 
perhaps, plenty of carbon or starch. 
(Continued on next page.) 
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gives the raiser granulated charcoal to 
be fed like shells or grit, and powdered 
charcoal for mixing with the feed. Pow¬ 
dered charcoal causes the cooked mess to 
look dark, and fowls are less liable to 
eat it. and I prefer the granulated arti¬ 
cle. Hoppers that will contain a supply 
that will last a week or two may be 
used. We consider this as of very great 
importance, especially where fowls are 
confined to yards. When fed, it imme¬ 
diately Heightens the color of their 
combs. 
Advantages of Corn. —I thoroughly 
believe in feeding corn to hens. The 
sluggish breeds that would store away 
the carbon or starch as fat, must be fed 
sparingly with it. But the active breeds 
work this fuel off in exercise. It sup¬ 
ports the strength of the active forager, 
gives energy, and as it is constipating, it 
enables the fowl to eat quantities of 
grass and insects without looseness. It 
counteracts the effects of this loosening 
food. Hens allowed full liberty in sum¬ 
mer, will do well on nothing but corn, 
others to the contrary notwithstanding ; 
for the corn eaten is but a small part of 
what is secured. Hens in yards should 
be fed little corn, but not too much 
wheat or oats. Hens at liberty in sum¬ 
mer, if fed whole wheat and oats only 
with what grass, etc., they secure, be¬ 
come undesirably loose, and less ener¬ 
getic foragers. Bran is always loosen¬ 
ing. Wheat middlings, wheat flour, and 
BABY’S COniNG. 
Nature intended that 
every woman should 
look forward to the com¬ 
ing of her baby with joy 
and hope, unclouded by 
anxiety Almost pain¬ 
less parturition is quite 
the usual thing among 
uncivilized people. 
Even in our own country 
it occasionally happens 
with women in robust 
health and good condi¬ 
tion. It ought to be the 
rule instead of the excep¬ 
tion ; and it is a fact that 
a very large proportion 
of the usual pain and suf¬ 
fering may be avoided by 
looking after the mother’s general health, 
and specially strengthening the particular 
organs concerned in parturition. 
Many mothers have been brought through 
the trying time almost painlessly by the aid 
of Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription. _ It 
prepares the system for delivery by. im¬ 
parting the organic strength and elasticity 
which the mother specially needs; shortens 
the time of labor and of confinement; pro¬ 
motes the secretion of abundant nourish¬ 
ment for the child and fortifies the entire 
constitution against the after period of de¬ 
pression and weakness. It’s use should 
begin in the early months of gestation—the 
earlier the better. 
Mrs. Fred Hunt, of Glenville, Schenectady Co., 
N. y., says : “ I read about Dr. Pierce’s Favorite 
Prescription being so good for a woman with 
child, so I got two bottles last September, and 
December 13 th, I had a twelve-pound baby girl. 
When I was confined I was not sick in any way. 
I did not suffer any pain, and when the child 
was born X walked into another room and went 
to bed. I never had an after-pain or any other 
pain. This is the eighth child and the latest 
of them all. I suffered everything that flesh 
could suffer with the other babies. I always had 
a doctor and then he could not help me very 
much, but this time my mother and my husband 
were alone with me. My baby was only seven 
days old when I got up and dressed and left my 
room and stayed up all day.” 
corn in any form, are about the only 
constipating foods with which we have 
had any experience. Overfeeding the 
corn with nothing else, will also cause 
looseness. 
To counteract the loosening tendency 
of rich food, is one of the most important 
points to consider in making up a ration 
for hens. A proper selection and com¬ 
bination of foods, will do this in most 
cases, and pepper and ginger may be 
used to help out when using certain 
materials. Boiled roots, potatoes, etc., 
are also loosening. No matter how rich 
the food, or how correct the proportions, 
if all or half of it goes through without 
being absorbed or taken up, it does no 
good and simply taxes the fowl. Cook¬ 
ing is not always a benefit. Food that 
is not too concentrated when uncooked, 
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