The Scientific American cyclopedia of formulas : partly based upon the twenty-eighth edition of Scientific American cyclopedia of receipts, notes and queries 15,000 formulas / edited by Albert A. Hopkins.
- Albert A. Hopkins
- Date:
- 1910
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The Scientific American cyclopedia of formulas : partly based upon the twenty-eighth edition of Scientific American cyclopedia of receipts, notes and queries 15,000 formulas / edited by Albert A. Hopkins. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![(Feeding Hens) Some of the advantages of this method of feeding are that the mash is put in the troughs at any convenient time, only guarding against an exhaustion of the supply, and the entire avoidance of the mobbing that always occurs at trough feeding when that is made a meal of the day, whether it be at morning or eve¬ ning. There are no tailings to be gath¬ ered up or wasted, as is common when a full meal of mash is given at night. The labor is very much less, enabling a per¬ son to care for more birds than when the regular evening meal is given. For green feed during winter and spring mangolds are used. They are liked by the birds, and when properly harvested and cared for remain crisp and sound until late spring. They are fed whole, by sticking them* onto projecting nails about a foot and a* half above the floor. Care must be exercised in feeding them, as they are a laxative when used too freely. On the average about a peck per day to 100 hens can be safely used. They would eat a much greater quantity if they could get it. The average amounts of the materials eaten by each hen during one year are about as follows : Grain and the meal mixture,^ 90 lb.; oyster shell, 4 lb.; dry cracked bone, 2.4 lb.; grit, 2 lb.; charcoal, 2.4 lb.; clover, 10 lb. Pigeons’ Food. Asafetida, 1 dram; potassium nitrate, 4 drams; magnesium sulphate, 1 oz. ; pre¬ pared chalk, 1 oz.; licorice, 2 oz.; fine sand, 2 oz.; corn-meal, 12 oz. Poultry Food. Fecundity of the hen is dependent upon other things than the medicine which she takes. Birds in a wild state are independent of the apothecary; it is only when they have been deprived of their natural food and surroundings that chemicals have to be resorted to, and then with but doubtful effect. Poultry to be profitable should be healthy, and to be healthy they should be kept clean, free from parasites, have plenty of room in which to rove by day, an airy roost by night, a variety of food, including green stuff and meat and gravel to aid in its digestion, and an abundance of fresh water. Secluded retreats in which to make their nest should also be provided for the fowls. But many fowls are deprived of some or all of these good things. (Poultry Food) There is a great similarity between the various poultry powders and foods. The powders are popularly supposed to increase the egg-laying power of hens. We quote a few typical formulas: 1. —Powdered eggshell or phosphate of lime, 4 oz.; iron sulphate, 4 oz.; pow¬ dered capsicum, 4 oz.; powdered fenu¬ greek, 2 oz.; powdered black pepper, 1 oz.; silver sand, 2 oz.; powdered lentils, 6 oz. A tablespoonful to be mixed with suf¬ ficient food for twenty hens. 2. -—Oyster shells, ground, 5 oz.; mag¬ nesia, 1 oz.; calcium carbonate, 3 oz.; bone, ground, oz.; mustard bran, 144 oz.; capsicum, 1 oz.; sodium chloride, 1 oz.; iron sulphate, y2 oz.; sodium car¬ bonate, y2 oz.; sulphur, y2 oz.; beef, lean, dried and powdered, 10 oz.; fine sand, 10 oz.; corn-meal, 20 oz.; linseed- meal, 20 oz. Reduce all to moderately coarse pow¬ der and mix well. The above are formulas that are recom¬ mended by poultrymen, and pharmacists should not condemn them, even if they do seem polypharmic. Poultrymen have ideas of their own about the value of compli¬ cated formulae. 3. —Mustard, 4 oz.; fenugreek, 3 oz.; oyster shells, ground, 2% oz.; bone? iy2 oz.; sodium sulphate, 1 oz.; capsicum, 2 oz.; black antimony, 2 oz.; Venetian red, 2 oz.; corn-flour, 4 oz.; asafetida, 90 gr. Reduce all to powder and mix well. A tablespoonful is to be mixed with sufficient meal or porridge to feed twenty hens. 4. —Iron sulphate, 1 oz.; red pepper pods, 1 oz.; black pepper, 2 oz.; calcium phosphate, 8 oz.; bread crust or crackers, 8 oz.; fenugreek, 4 oz. Powder the in¬ gredients, and add four parts of clean white sand. If preferred, well boiled white beans may be used instead of the bread crust. The beans should be pressed through a colander to remove the hull, and then worked up with the powders. Label as follows: “For every dozen hens, add one level tablespoonful of the powder to the ordinary food, mixing it thoroughly, so that it may be as evenly distributed as possible. 5. —Bone, ground, or slacked lime, 12 oz.; gentian, powdered, 1 oz.; capsicum, powdered, 1 oz.; ginger, powdered, 2 oz.; sulphur, 1 oz. Put a teaspoonful in a quart of food. 6. —Ground bone or phosphate of lime, 12 oz.; capsicum, 1 oz.; ginger, 2 oz.; [47]](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31361523_0061.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
