Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1917 — FURNISH PROTEIN TO POULTRY IN WINTER. [ARTICLE]

FURNISH PROTEIN TO POULTRY IN WINTER.

Something Must Be Supplied to Take PJace of Bugs, Insects, Grasshoppers, Etc. *— > • (By P. G. HOLDEN, Former Dean of i lowa State College.) Fifteen per cent of an egg is protein,Proteiti is tfce food that makes muscle. The lean part of ham and bacon is protein. Hens get protein when they egt angle worms, bugs, insects, grasshoppers, etc. T 6 get eggs in the winter we must give the hens something to take the place of the worms and bugs. When your father butchers a pig or a cow do you give the offals to the chickens? • Perhaps yon can kill a rabbit or a squirrel for them. Skin Jt and bangIt in the poultry-house Just high enough that the TSns, will: Infere 4o jump a little to reach It. ’ Exercise Ts good for laying hens. Or. perhaps yon have some mtlk or Milk contains a great deal of pyoteln. Let it sour before feeding it, as sour milk keeps the hens healthy. Ground bone or beef scraps are made from the waste and offals in the packing-houses. Some people buy these.