Show oats found valuable forta for layers y arsat at ohio that oats make a valuable feed for or layers and provide something which functions more effectively than yellow corn carn has been substantiated by efte extensive asive tests at the ohio experiment station during the past three years A total of GOO layers were used in the experiment conducted by bv D 0 kennard in charge of poultry investigations the nine groups of layers infers which received rations with 20 per cent of the corn replaced by that amount of oats averaged 15 per der cent better egg production while the ability of the eggs and the mortality of tile the birds were practically the same the groups which received the oats ate 10 per cent more feed and averaged 3 per cent more in monthly body weights it should be e emphasized however that even the oats ration carried 40 to 60 per cent yellow corn just juit how much more of the corn could have been replaced by oats was not determined |