Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1916 — MILK IS GOOD FOR CHICKENS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

MILK IS GOOD FOR CHICKENS

One of Most Valuable Poultry Feeds Available on Farm—Encourages Hens to Lay. The most valuable poultry food available on most farms is milk. Many farmers feed all their surplus milk to the hogs. Milk, when fed to the hogs, makes flesh that sells for seven or eight cents a pound. When fed to poultry, especially during the winter months, it makes eggs that sell for 25 cents a pound, and flesh that brings twice price ordinarily offered for hogs. And besides, in discriminating markets, milk-fed poultry always sells for a premium. Given all the milk they will consume, hens will lay well in season and out of season. One cannot overfeed of milk. It is safe to keep it before the hens always. The vessels in which the milk is fed should be washed and scalded daily. Earthenware crocks are the best for the feeding of milk since they are eas-

sftor filling the silo breaks the land from which the silage corn was cut snd sows cow peas. The corn, ripens In August and he gathers it In September, and turns the hogs in. He uses the hogs to clean up crops that would otherwise go to waste. He puts the hogs in the velvet bean field in which he plants corn and the bogs fatten rapidly on the beans and corn. He plants large fields of corn, and velvet beans in alternate rows. He says be can make more corn by planting in five-foot rows with a row of beans down each middle than he can get in three and a half or four-foot rows. The corn is gathered and the bOans grazed by all kinds of live stock. The grazing season is long and the cattle do well on native grasses until about December 1. The cattle are then turned on a field of velvet beans and fatten very rapidly. The velvet beans make beef of a very fine quality. Large numbers ml his cattle usually go

ily cleaned. If wooden troughs or vessels are used, they will, in a very short time, become so fouled that thorough cleaning is almost impossible. IP only a limited quantity of milk is available for the hens, the better way of feeding it is to use it in moistening the mash. When used for this purpose the milk will .be evenly distributed to the flock.

Cattle on Gaitskill Farm, Near Mclntosh, Fla.