Show POULTRY P FAS TS T S FOOD FOR CHICKS GIVEN BY KAUPP mash and grain should be fed first nine weeks the chicks with which one will start a poultry flock of 60 50 hens to be raised will first need pounds of feed up until the ninth week and thereafter for the whole year the BO 50 hens selected will need 41 9 50 pounds of feed the pounds of feed needed for the chicks up until the ninth week should he be pounds of mash dash feed and pounds of grain says dr 13 F p kaupp head he ad of the poultry department part ment at the north carolina caronna state college then when the 60 50 hens tire are selected from the lot these hens heng will need GO 50 pounds of grain and 35 pounds of mash per hen for a year this makes at total of pounds of feed that should be provided on the home farm ot of this amount 2500 pounds la Is grain feed and may be supplied by 23 bushels of corn 24 bushels of oats and 13 11 bushels of wheat to supply the 1750 pounds of mash feed also in the ration the grower should raise 10 bushels of corn and 11 bushels of oats some additional feed will also be needed on the poultry farm for young and growing birds therefore doctor kaupp says tf if the average farm keeping a flock of 60 50 adult hens will pro attee for the poultry 25 bushels of corn 28 26 bushels of oats and 15 bushels of wheat beat the owner will need to buy only about pounds of fish meal or meat meal pounds of and 75 pounds of bone meal to have his birds yell fed doctor kaupp has worked out a laying mash and a grain feed which has given excellent results on the experimental poultry farms the successful former farmer who keeps a flock of purebred pure bred poultry as a sideline side line should not have to buy his feed foodstuffs stuffs they can be raised and mixed at home with excellent results declares doctor kaupp |