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Show ANIMAL FEED IS IMPORTANT Meat Scrap, Milk and Its Product, Tankage or Flth Scrap Incrcasa Egg Yield. (Frcptnft by lh Unltd SIMM Dprtmtnl of Airlculturt.) A great increase In our annual egg production iriy bp expected when poultrymen ant farmers In genera) recognize rec-ognize tho Importance of animal feeds in the rutlonu for (he Inylng flock. The demonstration of the superiority of feed combinations containing nicnt scrap, milk and Its products, tankage, or fish scrap Is one of the most valuable valu-able nddlttons to our knowledge of poultry management contributed by the United States Department of Agriculture Ag-riculture nnd vtirlouB experiment stations. sta-tions. Practically nil experimental tests navo shown that these feeds will greatly stimulate vgg production, especially espe-cially during tho full nnd winter months. The fact thut many fanners get no eggs nt all during this period may usually be attributed to a Inch; of essential animal feed, Tho addition of from 10 to 25 per cent of one of those named would In most cases make a remarkable, difference. Which one of these feeds should be used depends upon local conditions nnd prices. They nro of about equal vnluu when tile protein content Is taken Into consideration. consid-eration. The fish meal and tnnkago have given Just as good results as meat scrap. Milk Is Just as good when avail-ablo avail-ablo at a low cost, and fresh buttermilk butter-milk und skim milk produce good results, re-sults, In some Bent Ions condensed buttermilk but-termilk and semi-solid buttermilk have been fed with success. In n test extending from November t to July 10 on the government farm Hens Need Animal Feed Xo Make Big Egg Meturna. at Bcltavllle, Mt, 30 hens on a ration without meat scrap or any animal feed averaged 7-1 eggs each. Another flodk of 30 hens -of the same breed during the same period laid nn average of 118 eggs cadi, the difference of 80 eggs being be-ing attributed to the ration which contained con-tained meat scrap. Both flocks were but on range whenever the weather was favorable, which mndo tho difference dif-ference leas than It would have been linil the birds been kept In pens. In a test made by Purdue university agricultural agri-cultural experiment station nulinnl feeds were shown to have n decided value In the ration of Inylng hens and pulleljj. The pullets fed skim milk averaged 1-10.2 eggs In n year; those fed meat scrap, 13.1.0 eggs, nnd those In the check pen that received no animal an-imal feed of any kind laid nn average of only 01.2 eggs. It has been shown that It ts Impossible Impos-sible to Judge the value of a hen ns a layer unless shn has been fed u ration thut would give her mi opportunity tu demonstrate her capacity. Pullets that have not yielded profitably U-caiiHc U-caiiHc -of a ration lacking In nnlmnl matter liaw become profitable layers when Hie -defect in the ration was corrected. |