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When You Come to Town Saturday
Be Prepared to Buy Xmas Seals
Hy Marin Howe Dunbar.
Saturday has been named as Xhurston county day in the annual Red
Cross Christinas Seal sale!
Olympia has already purchased S4OO worth of the seals, and has done
her share toward raising the $650 quota of this county. It now remains
for the people in Thurston county
outside of Olympia to raise the re
maining $250.
Will you do it?
This question will be answered
Saturday when hundreds of people
from the outlying districts in Thurs
ton county will come to Olympia to
do their Christmas shopping.
Take your change in Red Cross
Seals. Nearly two dozen stores in
Olympia have a neat pile of the seals
alongside the cash register. The
seals this year are unusually gay and
attractive and can be used In deco
rating the Christmas packages, on
Christinas letters, and on Christmas
cards.
every quarter will do a great deal
every quarter will do a great deal
toward helping those suffering from the dread disease, tuberculosis. So,
Mr., Mrs. and Miss Thurston County, when you visit Olympla within the
next few days, please cast a generous eye toward the booths in the stores,
business house and retaurants—buy at least five cents worth of the seals.
The Mottman Mercantile company has arranged a very attractive and
beautiful window to advertise the seal sale, and Talcott Brothers' jewelry
store provided a very artistic booth from which the women solicitors sell
the seals.
A BIRD IN THE HAND
(Special Information Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture.)
Increase Your Poultry Profits
By Feeding Fresh Garbage
High Costs of Poultry Production May Be Markedly Reduced by the
Judicious Use of Garbage in Feeding
Laying Hens
Fresh garbage, fed as soon as pos
sible after it is discarded from the
tables of consumers, provides an effi
cient feed for poultry. Used judi
ciously it will reduce the cost of egg
and meat production from 25 to 30
per cent.
Cleanliness ancl sanitation in the
preparation, handling, and feeding
of garbage are essential, as sour or
tainted garbage is particularly ob
noxious to chickens, because any fer
mentation induces digestive disor
ders and profuse diarrhea. Appar
ently the intrtinsic value of garbage
as a poultry feed comes from the fact
that it provides a diversified ration
which satisfies all the needs and re
quirements of the flock.
It is a big-scale replica of the small
feeding operations of the back-yard
poultry raiser who maintains his
birds chiefly on table scraps and left
overs from the family board.
Although the character of the gar
bage varies during the year, due to
the fact that more succulent vege
tables and fruits are used during the
summer, the refuse is always a valu
able substitute for costly grains and
concentrates in the hen dietary.
Subject Garbage to Careful Selection
Some poultrymen have experienced
unsatisfactory results in the use of
garbage because they did not prao
tice careful selection. It cannot be
expected that the hens will thrive on
feed which is contaminated with
DAY-OLD
CHICKS
Splendid Strain of
PURE-BRED BARRED
ROCKS
The kind that will live, grow,
lay, crow, uud luive beauty
20 CENTS EACH
or $19.00 per 100
ORDER THEM EARLY!
Angela Alderman
Phone K'E:{l Box 17")
Olympia
CASTORIA
* For Infants and Children
In Use For Over 30 Years
Alwayabcar*
•igoa'turi at
broken glass, scraps of tin, phono
graph needles, and the like, and it is
only the owner who will pick over
the garbage and eliminate the objec
tionable foreign ma'ter that will
realize profitable and dependable re
sults from its use. The best plan is
to try to get the housewife to keep
such undesirable material from going
into the garbage.
Specialists of the United States De
partment of Agriculture recommend
running the garbage through a meat
or vegetable chopper and mixing it
with a little moist mash before it is
placed before the fowls. The amount
which is fed will entirely depend on
the size of the flock, it being usually
advisable to provide as much refuse
as the birds will clean up with a rel
ish in the course of an hour. Any
feed which the fowls reject should be
removed from the troughs, feeding
pens, or yards as soon as possible
thereafter. Otherwise it sours and
contaminates the premises and. sub
sequently. if the fowls peck at it dar
ing a period when they are hungry,
it invariably causes digestive trouble.
Where garbage is fed. it is always
essential to supply a light ration of
grain twice daily as well as to have
a dry mash available in hoppers be
fore the flock all the time. Gener
ally, table scraps are rich in protein,
although where the garbage is defi
cient in this ingredient it is practical
to supplement the mash with about
5 per cent of meat meal.
Cold Weather Facilitate* Garbage
Feeding.
Generally speaking, there is less |
danger from feeding garbage in the j
winter than during the summer as j
the cold weather prevents rapid de
composition and fermentation of the
refuse. Often the suburban flock
owner may secure the garbage of
neighboring families who do not keep
chickens. This source of feed may
be 'so plentiful that he can expand
his poultry keeping operations ano
afford to pay a small amount for the
table refuse Where many uncooked
potatoes are present in the garbage,
it is usually a good plan to separate
them and to cook them before feed- j
ing to the fowls. Otherwise they are j
not well utilized and often induce
digestive trouble.
Experiments in feeding garbage at
the government experimental farm
at Beltsvlle, Md.. indicate that .10;
hens will use about three quarts of;
garbage daily to advantage. In addi
tion, keep n dry mash consisting of
three parts by weight of corn meal,
1 part of bran. 1 part of middlings. 5
per cent of meat scraps before the
hens all of the time. The experi
ments proved conclusively that where .
fresh garbage is properly fed a boun
tiful egg yield results, while econom-;
ical and rapid meat producton is also
engendered by the judicious use of
garbage In the ration.
Ordinarily is is advisable where
garbage is plentiful to mix enough
supplementary mash with the gar
bage to give the mixture a good con
sistency. In case the table scraps
contain much fruit and vegetable I
peelings it is essential to add more !
THE WASHINGTON STANDARD, OLYMPIA. WASH., FRIDAY, DECEMBER !i, 1910
mash, while if the garbage is madt
! up chiefly of potato peelings, bread,
meat, and the like, less mash is nec
essary. Special precautions should
be exercised to free the garbage from
soapy water or excess liquid, this
being commonly accomplished by dip
ping off and feeding the top garbage
and allowing the excess liquid to re
main in the container.
One Southern poultryman who
handles about 1,000 fowls reports
excellent results from the use of well
selected garbage, which he obtains
from a large charitable institution.
He hauls the .garbage twice a day,
and feeds it to the birds about 10
o'clock in the morning, and again
during the middle of the afternoon,
so that the table scraps are fed fresh,
only two or three hours after they
are discarded from the kitchen. This
poultryman feeds the garbage on the
grass of the range, in such quantity
that the fowls clean up all the refuse.
The successful results obtained by
this chicken fancier are due largelv
to the well-selected and thoroughly
fresh garbage which is fed. He re
ports excellent results not only from
the feeding of garbage to fattening
of cockerels and old hens, but also to
I
/ ~~T° th e Practical
—Buy the Practical
CHRISTMAS is by long custom an occasion for greeting relatives and friends with
appropriate gifts. In this cheerful season a gift which will make jost the right
appeal is furniture.
FURNITURE AS A GIFT has the advantage of making a lasting appeal, as it will remain
for years or even for generations, a continuous reminder of the thoughtfulness of the
donor and a sealer of good will. At the same time it is not useless frippery, as it has gen
uine utility, and adds materially to the comfort and convenience of the user. Furniture
is substantial, permanent. Good furniture is a characteristic of a happy home.
Nake Christmas
Brighter for "Her" For the tiny baby° e n : * a £*
go-carts, just received at Quimby's.
fFor the youngster*,."'
child can't fall out, or a rocker.
For the student^'tX
labras, with silk cord, at Quimby's.
For Mother A flne new Dreßßer '
1 UI IlUlllvl Chiffonier, or Rug, of
which there are many kinds at Quim-
Fnr Fflthpp onf of hig ' comfort.
IUI I milvl a abe)i e) bright- colored
Order a PEDESTAL LAMP put aside | arm-chairs so conspicuous at Quimby's. I I
Many styles from which to choose
SPECIAL: Until Christmas only, the regular 10 per cent dis
count on cash purchases will be 15 per cent instead.
C. F. Quimby Co.
314 East Fourth Street Olympia, Washington
its use for laving hens anil pullets.
Even a small number of turkeys
which are maintained on 'his farm
are always attentively on ilie watch
for the garbage wagon. The gob
blers relish the table scraps keenly
and desert the tender grasshoppers
and nutritious chestnuts as readily as
the chickens scamper front succulent
alfalfa and well-filled hoppers of
mash when the garbage is spread out
j on the ground.
I •'* 'l* %• -I- .[■ .J. »*• •*— >|. .*. .*.
!❖ LEGIMKS SAVE GRAIN ❖
•1* IN FEEDING TESTS *
: •> *•* »*• »J» »% »*« •*«
Legumes save grain. A two years'
study undertaken in northwestern
Indiana by the I'nited States dairy
division and Purdue university has
shown that dairymen who grow alfal
fa. clover, cow-peas and other
legumes as a substitute for a portion
of the grain in the cows' rations, do
i not have to dig down so deep in their
I pockets when the feed bill comes in.
I Not only was there a greater profit
: made w hen legumes were fed with
! the grain, but the fart that the
legumes which were raised on the
! farm were charged at market prices
gave the farmer an additional profit
for raising them. In other words,
the farmer raised the crops and sold
theni to himself at market prices,
thereby making a net profit on th •
crop.
During th»- first winter, on the lti
farms under observation, it «as
found that the feed cost o'' produc
ing 100 pounds of milk was 11 cents
higher in the herds which were fed
legumes, hut the owners of these
herds paid 51 cents for grain per
100 pounds of milk, whereas iheir
neighbors who fed practically no
legumes expended 58 cents. The
legume feeders obtained the profit
from selling 69 cents worth of home
grown roughage to their cows for
every 100 pounds of milk produced,
while the nonlegume feeders sold
only 51 rents worth.
During the second w nfer the in
creased cost of grain made it more
profitable to feed legumes. The
herds which were fed legumes pro
duced 630 pounds more milk per
cow, and the feed cost of producing
100 pounds of milk was 11 cents
lower than for the herds which were
fed no legumes. The legume feed
ers also paid out 10 cents less for
grain per 300 pounds of milk than
their neighbors, the eost of roughage
being 68 cents in each ease. In Bof
the 13 legume-fed herds, the feed
cost of 100 pounds of milk amounted
to $1.27, as compared with $1 33
for grain-fed herd.-.. The dairymen
who did not feed legumes fed out 67
cents for grain per 100 pounds of
milk, compared with 54 cents for the
legume-ted herds.
A similar study on dairy farms in
Vermont showed practically the same
results. The dairymen who raised
an abundance of alfalfa and similar
crops paid out 6 cents less for grain,
while roughage cost only 2 cents
more. In the second winter the feed
cost of producing 100 pounds of milk
was 13 cents lower with the herds
receiving legumes.
The legume feeders also scored
another hit in the saving of grain.
They paid only 84 cents for grain for
each 100 pounds of milk, as com
pared \ytth sl.oi for dairymen who
fed no legumes. Assuming that a
dairyman was producing 500 pounds
of milk a day, this saving would
amount to 85 cents daily, and $25.50
a month, or $155.12 during the win
ter.
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