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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar81911newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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December, 1911 AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 447
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Rhode Island Red Hen Prize White Leghorn Hen Prize Black Minorca Hen grains. The old-fashioned plan of making wet mashes has been abandoned to a large extent. Feeding twice a day will be sufficient. Wheat, oats and barley may be given in the morning, and whole or cracked corn at least two hours before sundown at night. Beef scraps and bran or shorts may be kept in hoppers, where the fowls may eat when they desire. Oyster shells and grit should always be before of the kitchen range and to throw into it whatever may be intended for the hens. All this may be cooked up together and enough bran added to make a mash which will crumble in the hand. Let this be given at noon, preferably; other- wise in the morning. It will stimulate the egg yield, and, of course, the amount of grain given should be reduced in proportion to the amount of mash fed. No more mash the birds, and, of course, an abundance of fresh, pure water than will be eaten up clean should ever be given, and it is is a necessity, winter and summer. The water vessels should be kept in a sheltered place in summer, so that the sun will not shine on the water to heat it. The drinking vessels should be washed frequently. Dishes which will not break when the water freezes should be used in winter. Galvan- ized iron pails are excellent; if ice forms, it can be quickly removed by pouring water on the outside of the pail and inverting it. Green food is necessary the year through. In summer lawn clippings serve the purpose well, as does refuse from the garden. In winter clover or alfalfa hay is especially good if it is placed in a pail and boiling water poured on it, the hay being allowed to steam for several hours. Cabbage, carrots, mangles and other vegetables are eaten with relish. They may be spiked to a piece of wood or suspended by a string, but the hens should not be made to jump for them, at the risk of producing a rupture. Many families can feed their poultry largely on table scraps, although a little additional labor is involved. It is not a good plan to throw the refuse from the table into the henyards, allowing the hens to pick out what they like, for insanitary conditions are al- most sure to result. It is better to keep a kettle on the back

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