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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
October 0 
A BALANCED POULTRY RATION. 
Will you assist me in figuring out a 
balanced ration in my poultry feeding? 
Prepared feeds liave to be purchased, and 
contain grit, shell and charcoal that we 
could supply much cheaper than $3.50 per 
hundred pounds. I have planted Kaffir 
corn, corn, sorghum cane, sunflowers, mil¬ 
let, buckwheat and grepn stud available all 
the time (Winter included). 1 have har¬ 
vested oats and will plant wheat and bar¬ 
ley this Fall. I have a hand mill and can 
grind and mix my own feeds. I want aid 
in figuring out the following rations: 1. 
For baby chicks and ducklings. 2. Pullets 
for future breeders. 3. Cockerels for broil¬ 
ers. 4. Laying hens and ducks. Give pro¬ 
portions of above mentioned feeds for mix¬ 
ing these rations. I am having good suc¬ 
cess with the ready-mixed feeds, w. f. s- 
I la wkinsvillc, Ga. 
Rations for chickens recommended by 
the New York State College of Agricul¬ 
ture: For the first 48 hours after hatch¬ 
ing no feed should be given. 1 hen for 
three days they should be fed bread 
crumbs, eight parts; boiled eggs, two 
parts; thoroughly ground together and 
moistened with sweet skim-milk, with a 
little fine grit, granulated charcoal and 
bone meal added. Feed this five times 
daily, but feed rather sparingly. Leave 
before the chicks a mixture of cracked 
wheat, six parts; cracked corn, four 
parts; hulled oats, one part; wheat bran, 
four parts; fine grit, charcoal and bone, 
one-half part. Fresh water should al¬ 
ways be at hand. The tiling to seventh 
day gradually substitute for bread 
crumbs and eggs, cornmeal johnny cake 
and egg, made of four parts of corn- 
meal, one and one-half parts eggs, five 
parts sour skim-milk and baking soda. 
This should be baked thoroughly and 
then ground with one-half part onions 
and one-half part lettuce or other green 
food. Feed three times per day. Feed 
grain mixture as above in light litter 
twice per day. Leave wheat bran before 
them in a dish so that it cannot be 
scratched out. The seventh to twenty- 
fifth day feed as above with the excep¬ 
tion of bread. Feed johnny cake twice 
daily. Give grain in the litter three 
times per day. Wheat bran, fine grit, 
charcoal and bone may be left before 
them'continuously. From third to sixth 
week feed the same as above except 
that only two feeds of grain per day 
(morning and night), and one feed of 
johnny cake (noon) should be given. 
Place before them a mixture of wheat 
bran, eight parts; best screened beef 
scrap, two parts; bone meal, one-half 
part. Only the best beef scrap should 
be used, as poor scrap causes indiges¬ 
tion. Chicks should have a grass run if 
possible, with opportunity for exercise, 
picking grass and catching insects. 
Otherwise green food should be sup¬ 
plied four to five times per day, but 
sparingly. 
During the fore part of this period 
johnny cake is mixed with equal parts 
of a good ground grain feed, similar to 
the one used for egg production—for 
example, 100 parts cornmeal. 100 parts 
wheat middlings, 200 parts wheat bran, 
100 parts beef scrap, 25 parts oil meal, 
25 parts Alfalfa meal. This may now 
be fed in place of the wheat bran and 
meat scrap. From six to ten weeks, 
feed in one hopper the regular laying 
ration as above, and in another a 
cracked grain mixture consisting ol" 200 
parts cracked corn, 100 parts cracked 
wheat. 
For laying hens give whole grain, two 
parts corn, two parts wheat, one part 
oats, scattered in the litter morning and 
night. For their mash use six parts 
cornmeal, six parts wheat middlings, five 
parts meat scraps, three parts wheat 
bran, one part oil meal, one part good 
Alfalfa meal in Winter. Green food 
such as mangels, etc., to the extent of 
about one pound to 15 hens per day. 
For broilers cornmeal, hulled oats, bar¬ 
ley, buckwheat, equal parts, ground and 
mixed with buttermilk or skim-milk to 
a batter. Feed this morning and night, 
and at noon feed equal parts of corn and 
wheat. For fattening birds in general, 
feed this mixed wet batter twice per 
day, without the feed of grain at noon. 
A ration for ducklings consists of 
four parts cornmeal, two parts wheat 
bran, two parts meat scrap, two parts 
ground oats, one part wheat middlings. 
Ration for breeding ducks, recommended 
by A. J. Hallock, is 70 parts corn, 15 
parts wheat bran, 10 parts wheat mid¬ 
dlings, 15 parts whole oats, 25 parts 
whole wheat, 40 parts Alfalfa meal, 15 
parts meat scrap; vegetables at noon, 
corn at night. Sunflower seeds could 
Pro- 
Carbo- 
Nutr’tve 
Food. 
teiu. 
hydrates. Ratio. 
Sunflower. 
.121 
.858 
1:7:1 
.73 
1:7:2 
Oats. 
.508 
1:0:2 
Millet. 
. 
.OK!) 
.522 
1:5:8 
Harley. 
.1187 
.692 
1:7:9 
Buckwheat. 
.077 
.533 
1:6:9 
Corn. 
.764 
1:9:7 
Wheat bran. 
1 99 
.453 
1:3:8 
(>il meal. 
.293 
.485 
1:1:1 
Alfalfa meal. 
. 
.11 
.423 
1:3:8 
Wheat middles. 
.128 
.007 
1:4:7 
Meat scrap. 
.331 
1:0:5 
be substituted 
for 
corn to 
quite 
an ex- 
tent. Millet 
could 
safely 
be added to 
the chick ration. 
CHAS. 
F. BOEHLER. 
AILING ANIMALS. 
Verminous Bronchitis. 
We have two sick sheep, and come to 
you for advice. They are one year old, 
Cotswold ewes. The first one has been 
sick for two weeks; has a deep cough, 
when she gels up trembles in leg, does not 
stand long at a lime, eats hastily, but 
gets thinner all the time. The other I 
found sick tills morning; she seems to rat¬ 
tle in throat, breathes very short, stands 
with bead down and to right side, with 
ears hanging down; very torpid: Can vou 
advise me what to do? i,. c. b. 
New York. 
We suspect (hat in both cases the cause 
of cough and the other symptoms described 
is the presence of thread-like worms 
(Strongylus filaria and refuseeps) in the 
air passages of the lungs. The parasites 
are taken in on old tainted pasture, or on 
low wet land where adult sheep have been 
grazed. For the cough and to smooth the 
membranes of the bronchial tubes give a 
tablespoonful dose of glyeo-heroin three 
times daily. Any veterinarian should by 
microscopic examination of tin* mucous 
from the nose and mouth be able to deter¬ 
mine whether or not lung worms' are pres¬ 
ent, and if they are he should give inter- 
tracheal injections of turpentine and oil 
or any medicine mixture lie prefers for 
Such use. Fumigations with burning sul¬ 
phur or tincture of iodine also are much 
used for the destruction of lung worms. 
In addition to medicinal treatment it is 
highly important to nourish the sheep well 
on a ratSon of oats, bran and oil meal in 
addition to grass and cut green food. 
a. s. A. 
Summer Itch. 
I have a horse with some kind of break¬ 
ing out, that shows itself in pimples and 
bumps, mostly on the neck, legs and breast. 
Sometimes the skin is about smooth, and 
in a few hours will show bumps from size 
of pea to dime, and at times he rubs and 
gnaws himself furiously; rubs his mane 
and tail badly and rubs the hair oil’ tin 1 
bumps or pimples. lie has been alleeled 
this way for three Summers, this being 
the worst. The trouble disappears in cool 
weather or Winter. I have tried several 
remedies without any permanent relief. 
What do you advise? n. M. b. 
South Carolina. 
The disease is chronic, and (ends to re¬ 
turn each Summer. It may be avoided in 
many cases by making it a practice to clip 
the horse early in Spring and avoid feed¬ 
ing grass. Corn also should lie omitted 
from the rations, and the animal fed on 
oats, bran and hay. See that he is fed 
lightly and exercised or worked every day. 
At the slightest sign of the itchiness mix 
an ounce of Glauber salts in the drink¬ 
ing water night and morning, and in¬ 
crease the amount slightly until it slight¬ 
ly opens the bowels, then reduce the 
amount, as the horse must not be caused 
to scour. Flowers of sulphur, powdered 
wood charcoal and granular hyposulphite 
of soda mixed together in equal quantities 
make a good preventive medicine. The 
dose is one tablespoonful mixed in the 
food night and morning. As an external 
application to relieve itchiness of the skin 
use a solution of half an ounce of hypo¬ 
sulphite of soda in a pint of cold water 
and apply as required. If this does not 
avail try n mixture of one dram each of 
diluted sulphuric acid and carbolic acid in 
a pint of water. \. s. a. 
Rheumatism In Cow. 
I have a five-year-old Holstein cow, 
calved in May. Four weeks ago I found 
her lying down in the pasture; on getting 
up she appeared stiff, walked as if it hurt 
her. Her spine was arched and she emit- 
ted a grunt at every step, sin- went off 
her feed for 24 hours, eating nothing but 
a bran mash. At the end of that time 
she commenced to improve, and in a day 
or two appeared normal again. Five days 
ago I found her in the same fix again. 
This time she ate very little for 48 hours. 
Rowels and kidneys are apparently all 
right. Usually she is a very sprightly an¬ 
imal, but during these periods she would 
move very slowly and carefully, as if it 
hurt her to move. I thought perhaps she 
might have eaten something poisonous. 1 
gave her a pound of salt fat pork. She 
appeared to be improving every day, but 
her back remains arched. She runs alone. 
Could you suggest a probable cause? 
New Hampshire. b. l. c. 
Rheumatism is to be suspected, and may 
have been induced by a wetting or sudden 
change in the weather. Better keep her 
off grass at night and furnish a sheltered 
sleeping place on dry floor. Give a pound 
dose of Epsom salts in three pints of warm 
water each time she has an attack, and 
follow with half an ounce of salicylate 
of soda two or three times daily in water, 
according to severity of attack. a. s. a. 
Horse With Itching Skin. 
About four months ago my horse started 
to rub and bite himself, and there were 
spots all over his head, neck and cheat, 
and no hair on these spots'. People told me 
to give him a dose for the blood, and 
others said he had chicken lice. 1 thought 
the latter must be true, as the chickens 
are always in the barn scratching, but 1 
could not see any lice on him. I then 
started to comb him and then wash him 
every day wiih tar Boap and carbolic in 
warm water. He does not rub so much 
now, but still does not seem to improve, 
and when out driving is not very lively. 
He eats same as usual; gets oats and best 
of hay. What is the trouble, and what 
can I do? I have another horse next to 
him that does not seem to be troubled. 
Connecticut. J. s> 
Chicken lice make some horses itch and 
rub terribly, and others are less affected. 
Would consider the lice a most probable 
cause, and would suggest that the chickens 
be kept absolutely out of the horse stable, 
where they are an unmitigated nuisance in 
more ways than one. Have the horse 
clipped. Then wash with a 1-50 solution of 
coal tar dip and afterwards rub in flowers 
of sulphur upon all irritated spots. Repeat 
as required Give him half an ounce of 
Fowler's solution of arsenic night and morn¬ 
ing for a month; then gradually stop the 
medicine. Clean up. fumigate, disinfect 
and whitewash the stable. a. s. a. 
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