Show Q NEEDED IN CHICK RATION liberal use of milk quite essential for chickens A vit amitie required by poultry and hitherto unrecognized lias has heen been discovered ly by L 0 norris 0 F heuser and 11 II S jr of the cornell university agricultural experiment sta tion this nine shiell Is contained in milk Is ess for the growth of chicks and for the prevention of a peculiar type of paralysis P ara lysis which may result in incurable deformities the discovery was in part accidental and resulted from an attempt to get a chick ration low in calcium and phosphorous which would be suitable to study the requirements of chicks for these minerals calpin caspin a purified milk protein was used ns as the main source of protein in the experimental ration when it was used in place of milk the chick ration was found lacking in tills this vitamins inQ which prevents pr eventa paralysis the experiment demonstrates that the use of liberal titles of milk la Is essential where chletis or mature birds are confined indoors and are not provided with succulent green teed food to conclude arout this ills experiment that milk should invariably be used in all poultry rations would be unwise they say as good chick have been reared in the past with little or no milk and good winter egg production has also often been obtained with rations which contained no milk it la is probable therefore that tills this unknown factor Is present in slight amounts in meat mea t products cereals and cereal byproducts and in large amounts la in succulent leafy green feeds |