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Show VARIETY FOR POULTRY Method Recommended by Maine Experiment Station. Grain Mixture of Wheat, Oats and Corn Is Scattered in Litter Chickens Chick-ens Should Have Ample Sup-- Sup-- ply of Green Food. One of the most successful methods of feeding poultry is the one advocated advo-cated by the Maine experiment station, which is briefly as follows : A grain mixture of equal parts by weight of wheat, oats and corn, and a dry mash of a mixture made up as follows : Bran, 200 pounds ; cornmeal, 100 pounds ; middlings, 100 pounds ; gluten meal, 100 pounds, and beef scraps, 100 pounds. The usual method of feeding the grain is to scatter about four quarts of the grain mixture for each 100 hens in the litter at night after the chickens chick-ens have gone to roost, or early in the morning. The litter should be deep enough to give the hens plenty of exercise. ex-ercise. At noon another four quarters should be scattered In the litter. Aside from the grain and dry mash the chickens should have plenty of green food, which may be furnished either in the form of mangels, cabbages, cab-bages, sprouted oats or cut clover hay. Milk is also a very valuable poultry food, and if furnished daily the amount of beef scraps in the dry mash can be cut down to 50 pounds. It is preferable prefer-able to feed sour milk, as sweet milk will often sour and cause digestive troubles. One of the secrets of successful feeding is to have the chickens go to roost with their crops full and in the morning have them eager for grain. If the chickens are not anxious for the feed, it is an indication that they-are they-are getting it too easily or that they are getting too liberal amounts. |