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THE  HENYARD 
Gluten  in  Mash 
I  have  been  using  the  Cornell  dry 
.•■ash  for  laying  hens  for  nearly  two  years, 
but  I  notice  of  late  you  do  not  have  the 
gluten  included  as  you  did  formerly.  Is 
it  found  not  to  add*  value  to  the  mash? 
Pennsylvania.  M.  L.  r. 
Some  poultrymen  prefer  to  add  gluten 
feed  to  the  mash,  some  think  that  the 
quality  of  this  product  cannot  always  he 
depended  upon  and  prefer  to  leave  it 
out.  It  is  used  in  the  mixtures  of  the 
Connecticut  (Storrs)  laying  contests,  or, 
at  least,  was,  and  I  presume  still  is.  I 
think  well  of  gluten  feed  in  a  mash  and 
should  continue  it  if  satisfied  with  the 
mixture  that  I  was  using.  I  do  not  rec¬ 
ommend  the  Cornell  formula  because  I 
think  it  better  than  any  other  mixture 
that  can  he  made,  for  it  isn’t,  but  because 
it  is  a  simple  mixture  of  three  grains  with 
meat  scrap  that  supplies  all  needed  food 
elements  in  a  mash,  and  I  like  simplicity. 
Much  is  made  by  many  poultry  writers 
of  the  great  value  of  variety,  but  it  seems 
to  me  overdone  and  I  prefer,  if  need  be, 
to  go  to  the  other  extreme  and  err  on  the 
side  of  simplicity.  Gluten  feed  is  a  high 
protein  by-product  of  the  manufacture  of 
starch  and  glucose  from  corn.  In  the 
process  of  manufacture  of  these  by¬ 
products,  a  little  sulphuric  acid  is  added 
to  the  corn  and  enough  remains  in  the 
gluten  feed  to  make  it  pretty  sour  to  the 
taste,  unless  neutralized  in  some  way 
There  should  not  be  enough  sulphuric  acid 
in  the  feed  to  injure  it  in  any  way  for 
feeding  purposes  but  some  object  to  it. 
Gluten  feed  is  one  of  the  best  milk  pro¬ 
ducing  foods  that  can  be  fed  dairy  cows 
and  I  believe  it  also  to  be  a  valuable  ad¬ 
dition  to  the  laying  mash.  M.  b.  d. 
Depluming  Mite;  Painting  Iron  Sink 
1.  What  can  we  do  to  get  entirely  rid 
of  that  miserable  depluming  mite?  It  is 
getting  into  our  flock  of  beautiful  Rhode 
Island  Whites.  A  few  months  ago  we 
noticed  some  of  the  fowls  were  getting 
bare  in  spots.  We  greased  them  with 
warm  tallow  mixed  with  sulphur.  We 
thought  we  were  done  with  mites ;  not 
so,  as  it  seemed  to  be  spreading  instead 
of  being  checked.  Then  we  gave  another 
very  thorough  greasing  with  warm  tallow 
and  kerosene.  I  saw  a  few  days  ago  that 
the  mites  are  not  dead  yet.  What  do 
you  advise?  Would  it  be  necessary  to 
disinfect  the  hen  house? 
2.  What  can  I  do  to  a  perfectly  good 
iron  kitchen  sink  to  improve  its  appear¬ 
ance?  Is  there  any  kind  of  paint  that 
will  stick  to  iron  and  stand  hard  wear? 
Clyde,  N.  Y.  mrs.  J.  R.  B. 
1.  Your  treatment  for  the  work  of  the 
depluming  mite  was  good,  though  two  ap¬ 
plications  of  the  grease  and  sulphur  or 
kerosene  should  be  made,  about  a  week 
apart.  The  skin  for  a  short  distance  out¬ 
side  the  bare  areas  should  also  be  covered. 
It  may  be  that  some  of  the  fowls  are  in¬ 
dulging  the  practice  of  feather  pulling. 
The  depluming  mite  usually  works  in 
warm  weather  and  ceases  its  operations 
through  the  Winter.  See  if  the  stumps 
of  broken  feathers  and  adjoining  quills 
are  surounded  by  scales  and  crusts  that 
indicate  the  work  of  the  mite. 
2.  A  kind  of  paint  called  “Mellotone,” 
adheres  well  to  iron,  which  should,  of 
course,  be  well  cleaned  and  freed  from 
grease  before  the  paint  is  applied.  There 
are  doubtless  other  paints  and  enamels 
which  are  also  as  satisfactory  as  paint 
can  be  where  exposed  to  wear.  M.  B.  D. 
Poultry  Rations 
For  baby  chicks  and  for  laying  hens, 
would  powdered  buttermilk  be  a  good  ad¬ 
dition?  If  so,  how  much,  by  weight, 
would  it  be  well  to  add  to  the  formula 
recommended  by  the  Cornell  Experiment 
Station?  At  what  age  should  chicks  be 
given  scratch  feed?  What  should  this 
scratch  feed  consist  of?  e.  m.  s. 
Waterbury,  Conn. 
Powdered  buttermilk  is  not  needed 
where  animal  protein  is  supplied  in  other 
forms,  though  it  is  one  of  the  best  sources 
of  protein  for  chicks.  It  would  be  equally 
good  for  laying  fowls  but  for  its  expense. 
The  Cornell  formulas  contain  meat  scrap, 
which  makes  the  addition  of  powdered 
buttermilk  unnecessary.  If  you  wish  to 
replace  the  meat  scrap  in  these  formulas 
with  dried  buttermilk,  there  can  be  no  ob¬ 
jection,  save  cost.  For  young  chicks  it 
would  probably  be  better  to  give  a  part 
of  the  milk  in  liquid  form,  giving,  say,  25 
lbs.  of  dried  buttermilk  and  75  lbs.  of 
liquid  buttermilk  or  skim-milk  in  place 
of  100  lbs.  of  meat  scrap.  Where  liquid 
buttermilk  or  skim-milk  is  available, 
there  is  no  need  to  purchase  these  pro¬ 
ducts  in  their  more  expensive  powdered 
forms.  Where  they  may  be  fed  in  unlim¬ 
ited  quantity,  nearly,  or  quite,  all  of  the 
meat  scrap  ordinarily  used  in  the  mashes 
may  be  omitted. 
Give  baby  chicks  scratch  feed  after  43 
hours  from  the  incubator.  Finely  cracked 
corn,  cracked  wheat,  and  pinhead  oat¬ 
meal.  Say,  one  part  oatmeal,  two  parts 
cracked  wheat,  and  three  parts  finely 
cracked  corn.  Oat  flakes  may  be  substi¬ 
tuted  for  pinhead  oatmeal,  and  whole 
wheat  and  coarser  cracked  corn  may  be 
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