Garfield County News | 1928-10-12 | Page 7 | Farm Poultry

BUCKWHEAT GOOD FATTENING FEED buckwheat Is a good fattening teed feed for turkeys some prefer barley and corn however either bither barley or oats oata it if mixed with buttermilk and tho the hulls removed would ile he a preferable mixture tho the buckwheat has hag the objectionable quality of hav ing g a fibrous bull which la Is not good feed A mixture of all three or four would do pretty well sonic records sent in ili give the costs of feeding ono one pert ground onta oats with hulls removed and nd two parts butter fallk na being 0 cents per pound while tile the cost coat tf of feeding on equal parts ground barley oats and corn with the ont oat and barley hulls hulla removed arid with the saine relative amount of df buttermilk avern averaged ged about tho the same A mixture of parts corn meal parts ground oats hulls hull removed PO 60 parts red log dog hour 3 parts tallow parts parta buttermilk averaged nver agod a cost coit of about 5 15 cents per pound using equal parts ground onta find and barley hulls removed one part beet beef scraps nind eight parts parte buttermilk tile the cost ws was shown to bo be kyj 4 cents per pound of course these costs coats wora were not figured lately but the comparisons remain the cornell fattening ro tinn of f pounds corn meal pounds buck buckwheat midd lingg thil inn pounds ont oat lour flour 30 pounds beer beef scraps and one part cherco il considered too a very fattening ration