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SHOULD RETAIN BEST FOWLS Patriotic Farmers Who Desire to Do Their Bit Will Find lt Wise to Keep Best Layers. ? Among farmers generally lt ls the 'common practice to sell hens over a 'year old for poultry when they stop laying in ihe fall. Under the usual con : dirions this is good policy, for as a rule only about half the flock lay well : enough the second year to be profit able, and the farmer who has pullets enough to replace all his old hens sees no advantage in keeping any of them over. This year, however, patriotic farm ers who desire to do their part to in crease the poultry and egg supplies will find it desirable to retain a consid Champlon Columbian Plymouth .Rock. ?rable proportion of the yearling hens, making fach addition, \Q their poultry house equipment as may be necessary to properly accommodate both pullets ?hd hens. Overcrowding muse be avoided, ns neither pullets uor hens will do their best. . , . - c- ' *'. - "" BOILED OATS FOR CHICKENS Favorable Results Obtained by Penn sylvania Department cf Agrl culture-Feed Warm. Poultry experts in the Pennsylvania department of agriculture report favor able results from feeding bolled oats, and state they are the cheapest poultry food now obtainable. Bolled oats have largely, too, superseded the sprouted oats so much exploited a few years Ego, as they are better, safer and less fussy. To prepare, soak good, heavy oats 12 hours or more (in hot weather or a warm room a fresh lot should be soaked daily), dissolve one tablespoon ful of salt In each bucket of water used for this, boil two or three hours end so gauge the amount of water used for soaking that at the finish the water is boiled away. Feed warm but not hot. White Leghorn pullets can have these boiled oats twice daily, say ?Lt 10 a. m. and 4 p. m., and all they will eat up clean. For old hens or heavyweight pullets, one feed a day ls enough and not too much at that, lest they become too fat on this much liked feed. CAREFUL ESTIMATE OF FEED ff Bran and Shorts Are Used Freely In Dry Mash They Will Take Place of Grains. One is compelled these days to make pretty careful estimates in regard to kinds of feed for chickens. It seems ?hnt bran and shorts are cheap as any thing on the market. If these are used freely in a dry mash with cornmeal, making the shorts the predominant part, the mixture will largely take the .trtace of cracked grains. It can be fed ?? self-feeders. It ls n good mixture ifor growing chicks whether or not jcracked grains are used, and can prof itably be kept before them all the time. KEEP ONLY THE BEST FOWLS Owing to High Price of Feed Poultry ( man Should Cull Out and Dis pose of All Runts. Now that poultry feeds, like all other feeds, are high In price, the poultry keeper should be more careful than ever to cull out and dispose of all runts, weak specimens and those which ?pre In any way deformed. While these are allowed in tho flock, they are con suming food and using coop and house ?room which could be more profitably devoted to strong, more perfect stock. KEEPING MALES IN SAME PEN Not Wise Plan to Permit Two Roos ters With Hens-Use Them on Alternate Days. It ls not best to allow two males In the same pen together. If It becomes necessary to keep more than one in the same pen, only one should be ?1 lowed with the hens the same day. It is n good pinn to let ooo run with the hens and the other one the next day. The male should be kept In a pen by himself when he is not with the hens. America's Greatest Cereal Crop ls Now Moving to Market. MAINSTAY IN NATION'S CRISIS. Surplus Wheat or the United State? Has Been Sent to Famine Threat ened Europe. America's great corn crop, exceed ing 3,000,000,000 bushels, will save the world's food sltuatiou, officials of the United States food administration be lieve. Corn Is the nation's best food cereal, housewives are beginning to realizo. It contains all the elements needed to keep the body In a Btate of health and when used according to the scores of tried recipes, especially when com bined with an added portion of oil or fat, will sustain life indefinitely. In dian warriors in colonial days lived on parched corn alone for many days at a time, and at Valley Forge parched corn was nt times the sole ration of the Continental soldiers. Owing to transportation difficulties caused by the war the corn crop moved more slowly to market this year than ever before. Now, however, the cereal ls reaching the millers and consumers. In the meantime the nation's surplus wheat has been sent to Europe. Today there are approximately 30 bushels of corn for every American. This quantity is greater by five bush els than In former years. Corn has become tho nation's main stay in the crisis of war. Just as this cereal saved the first American colonists from famine on many occasions, just ns it served as a staple food during the War of the Rev olution and during the Civil War, King Corn has again come to the front In th? nation's' Imf tie with rtutocracy! Corn meal ls finding greatly increas ed u.$g |n the mgkjngof ?rdlnr\ry whltg bread. Hundreds of housewives hud many of the larger bakers are mixing 20 per cent, corn meal with wheat flour to make leavened bread. This kind of a mixture ls worked and baked in the same recipes and with the same methods that apply to straight wheat bread. Corn bread-using corn meal entire ly-Is gaining a greater popularity than ever before. Housewives are coming to realize that every pound of wheat saved in America means a pound of ^rhea?t released for shipment to the nations with which America ls associ ated In the war. There are a score of corn products that today possess '\iusual importance for Amer. ians. Corn syrup for sweet ening corn cakes and buckwheat cakes and for use In the kitchen instead of granulated sugar ls one of the leading products made from corn. Corn oil, excellent for frying and for every other purpose filled by salad o'.ls, Is appearing on the market In large quantities. It comes from the germ of the corn. MADE-IN-GERMANY LIES CIRCULATED IN CANADA Canada ls also having trouble with Made-in-Gennany Hos calculated to hinder Canadian food conservation ac cording to an ofllclnl statement re ceived from the Canadian food con troller by the United States food ad ministration. The stories bothering Canada are of the same general character as those the United States food administra tor recently denounced Jg this, coun try, such as the ridiculous' salt and blueing famine fakes and the report that the government would seize housewives' stocks of home canned goods. The Canadian food controller esti mates that when the people listen to and pass on such stories, each one has the power of destruction that lies in a battalion of soldiers. "Stories without even a vestige of foundation have been scattered broad cast," said the Canadian statement "Nor have they como to life casually. They have started simultaneously in different parts of the country and In each instance have been calculated to arouse public indignation. "They are Insidious, subtle, persist ent. Blt by bit they dissipate public trust, the great essential in thc work of food control. "It lies with every Individual to for bear from criticism ; to refrain from passing on the vagrant and harmful story, and thus tho more effectively to co-operate in work which is going to mean moro than the majority of people yet realize." THE UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINISTRATION SAYS: There Is no royal road to food conservation. We can only ac complish this by the voluntary action of our whole people, each element in proportion to its means. lt is a matter of equality of bur den; a matter of minute saving and substitution at every point in the 20.000 OOO kitchens, on the 20, 000,0G0 dinner tables, and in the 2,000,000 manufacturing, whole sale and retail establishments of the country. This Is Our Winier of Test ys^^ERVIXO food is a lo ?-^EJJ?^ cal prob! a u for each "^SWSs&l^ community. Prie4' rj^^3?^ and definite ruler, for every one cannot he formulated. It is a duty for each ono to eat only so much as ls necessary to maintain the human body nealthy and strong. This winter of 1018 is the period when is to be tested here In America wheth er our people aro capable of vol untary Individual sacrifice .to save the world. That ls tho pur pose of tho organization of the United States Food Administra tion-by voluntary effort to pro vide the food that the world needs. ?. S. FOOD ADMINISTRATION NEED Bil SOS Europe's Meat Supply Must Come From America. Warring Nations Have Depleted Live Stock at Enormrou8 Rate, Eve.i Killing Dairy Cattle For Food. American stock breeders nro being asked to conserve their flocks and herds In order to meet Europe's tre mendous demands for meats during the war and probably for many year's afterward. The United States food adminis tration reports that American stock raisers have shown a disposition to co-operate with the government in in creasing the nation's supply of live stock. ~ ' Germany today ls probably better supplied with live stock than any oth er European nation. When the Ger man nrmles made their big advance into France and then retreated vir tually all the cattl? In the invaded territory - approximately 1,800,000 bead-were driven b*hlnd the German lines. B.ut in England-where 2,400,000 acres of pasture lands have been turn ed Into grain fields-the cattle herds are decreasing rapidly. One of the reasons apparently is the ^decll^pa maximum price scale adopted by the English as follows: For September, $17.76 per 100 pounds ; October, $17.28 ; November and December, $10.08; Jan lary, $14.40. The effect of these prices was to drive beef animals on the mar ket as soon as possible. In France the number of cattle as well aa the quality have shown an enormous decline during the war. Where France had 14,807,000 head of cattle in 1013, she now has only 12, 341,000, a decrease of 10.0 per cent. And France is today producing only one gallon of milk compared to two and one-half gallons before the war. Denmark and Holland have been forced to sacrifice dalry herds for beef because of the lack of necessary feed. Close study of the European meat situation has convinced the Food Ad ministration that the future problem of America lies largely In the produc tion of mont producing animals and dalry products rather than in the pro duction of cereals for export wheu the war will have ceased. BRITISH GOVERNMENT HELPS PAY FOR BREAD There has been much misunder standing about the bread program In England. It ls true that the English man buys a loaf of bread for lees than an American can, but it is poorer bread, and the British government ls paying $200,000,000 a year toward the c^st of it All tho grain grown in Great Brit ain is taken over by the government at an arbitrary price and the imported wheat purchased on the markets at the prevailing market price. This is turned over to tho mills by the govern ment nt a price that allows the adul terated war bread loaf of four pounds to sell at 18 cents, the two pound loaf at 0 cents and the one pound loaf at 6 cents. In France, under conditions some what similar, but with a larger ex traction, the four pound loaf sells for 1G cents. MAKING MEATLESS DAYS PERMANENT. In the meatless menu there ls a fer tile field for developing new and nour ishing dishes, according to E. H. Niles, writing In the Hotel Gazette, who be lieves that the present shortage of ment and fats will not end with the coming of peace, but may grow more acute and continue for five or six years, thus making it worth while to develop menus of grain, vegetables and fish on a more or less permanent basis. Meat can be replaced by cereals and other protein foods, or may be served in very small portions ns a fla voring for other food. In making up meatless menus this author linds our American Creole and southern cuisine a broad field for investigation. Mrs. J. A. Cox, of Al derton, \V. Va., writes: "My daughter . . . suf fered trriibly. She could not turn in bed .. . the doctors gave her up, and we brought her home to die. 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