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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1915-7-8, Page 6I" CRATE FATTENING OF POULTRY Practical experience has shown that crate feeding is not only the most oatisfeetory, but also the most eco- nomical method of fattening poultry. The saving in the amount of feed re- quired to produce one pound of gain is quite market, and the feeder ie enabled to observe to greater advan- tage the p}ogress being made by in- dividual birds. IIe can also, i£.neces- Bary, curtail the duration of the feed- ing period in the case of birds which have attained their maximum weight and are: ready to be placed in the finishing crate. The following article, by T. A. Benson, issued by the Live Stock Branch, Department of Agriculture, Ottawa, will be of much interest to many of oufr readers: The Construction of a Fattening Crate. The fattening crate commonly used is six feet long, twenty inches high, and from sixteen to eighteen inches wide. It is divided into three equal compartments by means of two tight wooden partitions. adhered to, and where only a small number of birds is to be fattened, packing boxee of suitable dimensions may be used, , The open top of the box should be- come the bottom of the crate, and one side should be removed for the front, Laths should be nailed verti- cally on the front, and lengthwise on the bottom, the same distance apart as is recommended above. A board should be loosened in the top of the crate to facilitate the removing of the chickens and a feed trough should be arranged in front as al- ready described. In the early autumn the crates may be set up in any place affording pro- tection from the rain and wind, but if operations are continued later in the season, more protection is neces- sary. The crates should be placed on stands of convenient height or sus- pended by wire attached to the raft- ers. Tho ground ehoult at ail times be kept covered with sand or other absorbent material. The Best Breeds for the Purpose. The best results can be secured only der that they may become more quickly aeceetomed to the change in diet. Many feeders practice giving three light feeds a day for the first three days, then two feeds a day for the remainder of the period. The birds should not be given more feed at one. time than they will eat up elean in twenty minutes. After this the troughs should be taken away or turned upside down in the supports, so that nothing is left to be picked at between meals, Rations. The following five meal mixtures which are numbered in order of merit have been carefully selected with h view to efficiency and to convenience in obtaining the material. It should be borne in mind that ground corn fed in excess will produce yellow flesh of inferior quality, and that ground peas impart a hardness to the flesh. 1. Two parts finely ground oats, ono part ground buckwheat, one part cornmeal. 2. Equal parts finely ground oats, buckwheat and barley, 3. Equal parts finely ground oats, barley and shorts. 4. Two parts finely ground oats, one part cornmeal, one part shorts. 5. Two parts barley, two parts low The Fattening Crate. The material used in the frame should be two inches wide, and seven - eighths inches thick. The frame is covered with slats which run length- wise on the top, back and bottom, and vertical on the front, and are made of material seven -eighths inches wide and five-eighths inches thick. The slats are placed two inches apart on the top and front, one and a half inches on the back, and from one-half to three-quarters of an inch on the bottom. Care should be taken to have th eouter slats on the bottom at least half an inch from the frame in order to provide for ease in clean- ing. The top slats are cut through at ,each partition and connected by two-inch strips, nailed under them. By hinging these strips to the rear frame piece, three doors are formed. A light 'V' shaped trough 22 inches wide is placed in front of each crate, and is placed in front of each crate, and is carried on two brackets nailed to the ends of the crate. The bot- tom of the trough should be four inches above the bottom of the crate and the upper inside edge two inches from the front of the crate. The measurements given for con- struction of this crate are the best, but need not necessarily be strictly from the use of‘strong, healthy, vig- orous stock, of the general purpose breeds, and the greatest gains are obtained on birds that weigh from 31/2 to 41 lbs. when they are ready to be placed in the crates. They should have attained this weight in from four to five months. Leghorns, Homburgs and other light weight stock do not make suitable stock to fatten. All birds should be thorough- ly dusted with insect powder, or com- mon yellow sulphur before being placed in the crates, and again at, the end of the first week. Feeding. The object in crate feeding is not only:to increase the amount of, fat and lean meat on the body, but also to soften the tissues and muscles that have ha dened through constant.exer- cise oil roe range. The duration of the feed ng period varies from four- teen to 'twenty-one days, depending entirely upon the thriftiness of the birds. $orae birds, given judicious feeding find good care continue to make satisfactory gains for even longer periods than three weeks. Birds placed in the crates with crops full should not be fed for the first twelve or eighteen hours in or - grade flour or shorts, one part wheat bran. The proportions given above should be measured, preferably, by weight, and mixed to a thin porridge with thick sour milk, or buttermilk. On the• average 10 lbs. of meal requires froth 15 to 17 lbs. of milk. If the birds appear dull and consti- pated at any time carefully dissolve and mix a small quantity of epsom salts in one feed; if bowels are loose, add a little charcoal to one feed. Give grit and green food twice a week. If milk cannot be obtained in suffi- cient quantities animal food of some kind should be supplied, but the best results can be obtained by the use of milk or buttermilk. All food should be mixed at least twelve hours before feeding and a verysmall quantity of fine table salt added, not more than one quarter of one per cent. Before being killed the birds should be starved for 24 hours, but no longer, water only being given to them during this time. It is good practice. to feed clean tallow to the birds at noon, during the last week. The tallow should be shaved into the trough with a knife, and is fed at the rate of about a pound to each fifty birds. QUEEN MARY DOING HER BIT. Works With Unflagging Interest in Wartime Activities. Never before, , perhaps, have her subjects felt themselves so surely and so closely in sympathy with Queen Mary as they do to -day, Not only do they know that she shares with them the common burden of the war; their hearts go out to her the more warmly because she has her own per- sonal anxieties and sorrows. She has given two sons to the service of the country. The Prince of Wales at the front and Prince Albert on his ship, and she has lost her cousin, the late Prince Mauriee of Battenberg, who was killed in action. They know too that she has never spared herself the hardest work, and has taken a lead in every good cause. How great and bow varied have been the Queen's ac- tivities no one can fully realize till he deliberately sets out to enumerate therm. If she had shown but a formal interest in the many enterprises be- . gotten of the war, if she had merely lent them the distinction of her pre- sence on ane occasion, she would not only have helped to launch them on a prosperous career; she would have taken up almost; every available mo- ment of her time. But the Queen has made time to do very much more. She has not merely assented; she has originated and suggested and shown is half n hundred ways the qualities of initiative and enthusiasm. She has visited the wounded in Many hospitals, -including the Arneri- eat Women's Hospital and the In- dian hospitals at Brighton and in the New Forest, and said a few sympa- thetic and friendly words to. the mein. • It was the Queen, moreover, who made the thoughtful suggestion that wounded soldiers and sailors should be sent to the convalescent homes nearest to their own neighborhood, and this suggestion has been as far as possible carried out. The Queen has worked incessantly for the alleviation of distress. She realized in the early days of the war that many hard cases of unemploy- ment were inevitable, and has done her best to minimize them. Both Queen Mary's Needlework Guild and the Queen's Work for Women Fund have donei and are still doing much good, and, many distressed women and girls awe her Majesty a very real debt. Presents and newspapers for the troops, parcels for the men of the Naval Brigade interned in Holland, bolts and socks, books and Bovril, matinees and concerts—these are many other things go to make up a jumble of gratitude, if we may so call it, which the country owes to the Queen, not accurately to be measured, but very deeply felt, It is clear that the fatigue in- volved by so much and so varied work moist have been great, and that no one could have supported it who was not haspired by the most genuine and unflagging enthusiasm. The Scribe's Blunder. In an account of a social gathering a reporter described one of the lady guests, who was of exceptional stat- ure, as poesoesing a form "that Juno might envy." Tho next morning, however, he read in the paper that the lady possessed a form "that Jumbo might einvyl" Water For an Army. One of the numberless tasks of the general staff of a great army is to provide water for the soldiers and the horses. The Scientific American describes some of the methods em- ployed. Only running water is used. In the German army the upstream Water is used for drinking, and the downstream water for watering the horses and for bathing. Suitable signs notify the men which water they may safely drink and which they may use only for bathing. In shal- low or narrow streams basins are dug or small dams built, in order to form reservoirs of sufficient size. Step- ping -stones are put down so that no one need walk through the water, and the banks are shored up with boards to keep them from crumbling into the water. Basins are dug at which to water the horses; when troughs have to be used, they are supported on posts and filled by means of pumps. If water lies at a reason- able depth from the surface,—that is, not more than twenty feet,—pipes are driven that, according to their size, deliver from four to twenty-two gal- lons of water a minute. If the wa- ter lies very near the surface, a hole is dug, and a cask, the bottom of which has been knocked out, is put into the hole to hold the aides in place and protect the water from dirt. If the water lies at a greater depth, box sections are driven in, one on top of another, to the required I depth, If the fish eat all the bait off your hooks don't be discouraged. They'll ' be all the bigger when you do catch i them, • Lieut. -Col. A, W. Currie. Mentioned by ,Sir John French for his conduct on the battlefield. He has received a Companionship of the Order of the Bath. e• WHAT TO DO WITH SOUR CREAM By Nellie Maxwell, University of Wisconsin. The question is often asked by wo- men living in dairy districts, "What can be done with sour cream, we of- ten have more than we know how to use?". It almost seems like asking what can be done with money, for cream is such a valuable food and may be used in so many appetizing ways that it should never be wasted. The idea with most women is not "What can we do with it," but instead, "Tell us some new ways of using it profitably." Many of us have used sour cream for griddle cakes, biscuits of various kinds, cakes, cookies, short- cakes, puddings, salad dressings, meat sauces, fish sauces and freezing it with fruit juices have made most delightful ice cream. And did you ever use sour cream in place of milk in preparing 'a white sauce for 'cod -fish? If not you have a treat in store. Do not cook the cream too long to allow it to cur- dle the mixture. But you ask for recipes, and here are just a few: Sour Cream Cookies.—Add a cup of sugar and a cup of molasses to two cups of rich sour cream, add two well beaten eggs, a teaspoonful of soda and one of baking powder, a tablespoonful at Killceel, with a junction line to of ginger, a dash of cinnamon and Warrenpoint, and- a call office at cloves and enough flour to roll. Let Aunalong. stand on ice to chill before rolling The Ven. J. M. Goold -Adams, Arch- deacon of Derry, has been notified that his only son, Captain John Goold -Adams, of the 1st Leinster Regiment, has been killed in action near Ypres. Mrs. G. K. Gilliland, of Brookhall, Londonderry, has received intimation from the War Office that her young- er son, Captain Valentine Gilliland, From Erin's Green isle NEWS irlz MAII, FROM, IRE• LAND'S SHORES. Ilapilens . E'Isle •aingl IntInerestthe'to Irish.merirld Inen. ``,t The order —recently iiiade by the military authorities in Dablin•,e1osing. all public houses to soldiershas been cancelled. The County Clare tuberculosis san- atorium at,Ballyalla, about two miles from Ennis, has been completely de- stroyed by fire. Enthusiastic scenes were seen at Omagh railway station, when several postmen and post office officiate left to join the Post Office Rifles. An old woman named Fuller, who died in Castlebar last week, had the distinction of having five grandsons at present serving at the front. It has been reported to Lisburn Board of Guardians that during the week another case of spotted fever has been admitted to the hospital. Dr. S. Agnew, in presenting his annual report to Lurgan Urban Coun- cil, stated that during the year there were 309 births and 213 deaths regis- tered. It is stated that there is a deficit in the past year's working of the Meath Hospital of about $6,000, and appeal has been made by the gov- ernors for help. The Ulster division of Lord Kitchener's army was inspected at. Malom, Belfast, by Major-General Sir Hugh McCalmont, when 17,000 troops paraded. Joseph Donnelly, in. the employ- ment of J. Stevenson & Co., Coalis- land, was seriously injured when he was run Ever by a large motor truck with a 3 ton weight on. The late Mrs. Birrell, wife of the Chief Secretary for Ireland, and for- merly the widow of the Hon. Lionel Tennyson, has left various Tennyson MSS., now the property of her hus- band. • Belfast still occupies the position of having the least amount of pauper- ism among the large cities. The Board of Trade monthly return shows that it is 94 per 10,000 of the popu- lation. The Assistant Postmaster -General, Capt. Norton, M.P., has stated that a telephone exchange will be provided Chocolate Cake.—Take a cupful of brown sugar, add a half cup of sour cream, a half teaspoonful of soda, one egg well beaten, a cup and a •half Of flour sifted with a teaspoonful of baking powder. Dissolve two squares of chocolate in half a cup of boiling water and add to the cake the last thing. Flavor with vanilla and bake in two layers. Cabbage Salad. — Shred cabbage very fine and plunge into cold water to crisp. Drain and dress with sour cream, sugar, salt and if not quite sour enough a very little vinegar may be added. This is a salad which can be enjoyed at any meal with almost and combination of foods. Sour cream when mixed with fruit juices and sweetened will freeze smooth and velvety. Orange juice with sour cream and sugar to sweeten is a combination especially tasty and delightful. Mix and freeze as an ice cream. Raspberry, grape juice or peach juice are others, Lemon is such. an acid with the sour cream also an. acid, that the result is not so good, unless a sour frozen dish is desired. High Life in Peru. Prof. Alsworth Ross, in an article in the Century Magazine entitled, "Peru, the Roof of the Continent," tells of the difficulty of merely sus- taining life in the higher altitudes among the Andes. He says: Life at Cerro de Pasco, nearly a league up, is as trying as life under a diving bell at the bottom of the ocean. The newcomer gasps for air like a stranded fish, and wakes up at night gulping mouthfuls out of the thin atmosphere. Three quick steps put you out of breath, and after climbing a flight of stairs you must sit dawn for a rest. "I know," panted a "tenderfoot," "how I'll feel when I'm eighty." No employee is sent up by the com- pany unless he 'has passed a physi- cian's examination, but occasionally one gets blue in the face and has to he .sent down forthwith. Thus the Inca Chronicle often has such items as "Jake L., who returned here last April, has been sent home with his heart machinery in bad shape." The you fellows play tennis and ball, and even indulge in track ath- letics; but the pace must be very slow. Singing is not popular, for you can- , not get the breath to hold a note. (Pneumonia is sure death here within forty-eight hours, so that the sufferer must be rushed down to the eat level 'in a special train that costs .the com- pany 9600. The typhoid patient, too, must flee, and the northern women. t must descend to Lima to bear their babies. The mining company's Americans are usually big, athletic, deep -chested men ,strong of jaw, sinewy of grip, and masterful of manner. They are well paid and looked after+but too many of them squander money and vitality in fighting off the demon of loneliness. of the 3rd Battalion, R,I,R., has been killed in action. ' The t death As reported from • Ips; Wieb of Farrier -Sergeant Robert' Me Ponaid, D Battery, '25th Brigade, MA.; as the result.;af a kick from a mule. His wife and four children live at Belfast. The Regiatrar-General's report for 1914 -shows a decline in the number of emigrants from Ireland.. The total is, 20,314, as compared with 30,967 for 1913 .find an average of 31,732 for the ten years, 1904.13, The annual report of work of. Bel - feet Fire Brigade for the year end- ing 31st March showed that the bri- gade haft responded to 210 calls. The total losses amounted to 9178,026, and the value at risk was 98,651,760. At a meeting of the Public Health Committee of Derry Corporation it was stated that there is no sheep- dipping station in the city, and the re- sult is, dealers are taking their sheep elsewhere. It was decided to pro- vide a dipping station. 9. A Message Strangely Delivered. Dr. Norman Macleod, the famous Scottish divine, before visiting India, called on an old Highland woman in Glasgow, says a writer in the Scot- tish American. "When ye gang tae India," she said, "ye'll bo seein' ma Donal' that went awn tae India ten years ago, an' never sent the serape of a pen tae his mither since." "But, Katie;' said the doctor, "In- dia is a very big place, and how can I expect to find him?" "Oh, but you'li'just be askin' for Donal'. What for no?" So, to please the old woman, he promised to ask for Donald, and he conscientiously kept his word. At various ports he made inquiry among British ships, although it seemed very much like looking, for a needle in a. bale of hay. But it is the unexpected that 'happens. As Doctor Macleod's steamer went up the Hooghly River, an outward -bound, vessel passed close by. A sailor was leaning over her bulwarks, and, .moved by a sudden impulse, the doctor shouted out: "Ar eyou Donald Mactavish?" To his intense surprise the man an- swered, "Yes." Doctor Macleod had only time to shout, "You're to write to your mo- therl" as the vessels drew apart. The result of this amazing meeting was that the old lady received a penitent letter from her long -neglectful son. — If woman had her way man wouldn't have his. • Great thoughts seldom come in very big packages. ICE CREAM IS A FOOD A VALUABLE food if it's pure. City Dairy Ice Cream is made of the purest ingredients, in a new sanitary building. We ship thousands of gallons to all parts of Ontario. The size of our business enables us to employ experts and the most up-to•date methods and equipment. Keen business men reduce their meat diet dur- ing the summer and consume more foods such as Ice Cream. Everybody can do so with benefit to their health. For sale by discriminating•shopkeepers everywhere. Look fo r the Sign. - TORONTO. We want an Agent ire every town/ From the Ocean Shore BITS OF NEWS FROM TUE LtRITIME PROVINCES. Items or; Interest Prom "Places Lapped Ily Waves of the Atlantic. Moncton has an outbreak of bur glories, four tool; place in one night.' Yarmouth reporte very fine catches of mackerel of late and much sent to Boston. Thomas, Jennings, miner, lost his lime by a falling stone at Joggins Mines, near Amherst. The contract for the now annex to the Victoria Hospital at Fredericton is held up for lack of funds, ` Ninety-three men ran away from the 56th Regiment camp at Sussex, N.B., and many got clean away. The city of'St. John has e dispute with the street railway, and at times the car service is crippled by it. The Self -Denial Day at St. John conducted by the LO.D.E. for the Belgian Relief Fund, raised $4,260. A. R. Coffin of the Truro News, gave a $500 Maxim quick -firing gun to the overseas forces for the war. Since the first of the year St. John Board of Health ordered to be de- stroyed 2,000 pounds of unfit meat, St. John Board of Trade urges the completion of the link to connect the National Transcontinental with their city. Charles Selien, one of the first Canadian contingent killed in the war, was a well known Halifax road racer. MimicMg a military arrest at Bar- rington, N.S., Sergt. Lohres fatally shot Private Grooves with his re- volver. J. Cole was killed in Halifax dry dock when the propellor of a ship hit him as it was being removed for repairs. A married squaw of the Indian Re- serve at Oromocto eloped with a young brave, and both were arrested at Fredericton. ,-: Hon. ,Chas, Dalton, of Charlotte- town, P.E.I., wants to give an ambu- lance to the Red Cross, and would drive it himself. • Haligax Rotary Club devoted a ses- sion to two -minute speeches on "How to Spend Ten Dollars to the Beat Advantage of the City." George McDonald, of Fredericton, wounded in France, has a brother with the 24th Battery and his father is in the 26th Battalion. The street railway company of Halifax are reported to want to put a gas plant and tanks next the new million -dollar I.C.R. depot. The insurance losses on the Jar- dine block 9100,000 fire at St. John will be some 955,000; a wholesale grocery suffered the most. Noted Canadians, sons of King's county, will tour the scenes of boy- hood days by motor to encourage re- cruiting in New Brunswick. Nova Scotia Government is encour- aginb co-operative dairying and es- tablishinb dembnstrative ,creameries, the latest at Margareo Forks. Postmaster Sears, of St. John, was fined for leaving three bags of rubbish on the sidewalk; he said he put them there on "clean-up day" and they were not taken away. Cape Breton people are much in- ter'ested'in the high prices now offer- ed for manganese, of which there is now ,little available in U.S. owing to the stoppage of imports. As theUBritjsh War Office has de- cided to supply field kitchens for Canadian contingents, the money col- lected for the same in St. John has been returned to the donors. Driver T. Nash, writing home to St. John from "Somewhere in France," says: "The tobacco here is very bad, and so are the papers, for they are printed in French." That Will Do. Amongst other things counsel wish- ed to prove that his client had no money, and to that end he cross- examined a witness on the other side as follows:— "You asked my client for money, did you not?" "Well, yes sir." "Answer promptly; let us have no hesitation. You asked him for mo- ney. — Now, what was his answer?" "I don't know that I ought to tell." "Nonsense. Surely you remem- ber?" "Yes, sir." "Then out with it. What was his answer?" "I'd rather not tell." "But you must; and if you don't answer my question promptly and truthfully I'll call upon the Court to eompoll you." "Well, sir, if I must tell, here you have it. I asked him yesterday if he could lend me half a crown, and he told me ho couldn't." "And you believed him, did you not?" "Yes sir; for he said you and the solicitor had buneood him out of every penny of his ready money, and Of he didn't get out of your hands pretty soon his wife and Hale ones would comp to—" ' "That will do, sir; yea can stand down." Ronember "My boy," said the succoseful merchant, "never lot your cepititl lis idle. Remember that money talks, but it doaen't talk in its elecp.