Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1891 — THE POULTRY YARD. [ARTICLE]

THE POULTRY YARD.

Potato Parlngi* lor Chickens. Mrs. J. M. Wetherell, Alameda County, California, writes: “Since I have kept poultry, I have pared my potatoes thicker than formerly, and find a balm for my wounded conscience in tho thought that what is lost by the family is gained by the poultry. I boil the potato parings, and when they are cooked I put them through a meat grinder. I then mix bran with tho ground potatoes until the mass is dry and crumbling, when I feed it to my young chicks while still warm. Sometimes I add before grinding one or two raw onions and a little salt and black pepper. The chicks not only enjoy It, but it is a very nutritious food for them.” Chops for Sitting Hens. As a precaution against storms and severe cold, all the coops for sitting hens should be placed in the poultry-house or under a shed. When the hens come off with their broods tho coops should bo carried into tho barn during tho stormy weather, and they should be so constructed as to permit of carrying tho hens and chicks in tho coops. No matter how closely a hen may hover her chicks, she cannot protect them in wintor when they are exposed to severe cold, and the chicks will sometimes become chilled during the day when they are picking up bits outside of the coop. All coops for hens with broods should be well littered with cut, hay, and every care used to have them as warm as can bo. When tho hen is sitting, her nest should bo in a warm place and her food placed whoro she can reach it without being compelled to go very far from the nest.