Garfield County News | 1923-01-19 | Page 5 | Lime Supply for Chickens

LIME SUPPLY fa FOR R CHICKENS I 1 experiments have demonstrated that other minerals will not take its pla place co feeding experiments with poultry conducted over a number of years in which an effort was made to sub statute other mineral elements tot foi lime ilme in the ration are arc sald bald t to 0 it have ave demonstrated that other minerals will not take the place kofl of ime and that if this element Is lacking in the food the demands of chobody the body will be met by drawing on an the time lime stored up in n the bones and muscles mui oes of the fowl it 1 was waa also found that both time lime and phosphorus are more beastly easily taken from the banes of af the living animal than from dead bone boa ash fed to the an animal