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Show Barley Not Sufficient for Fattening Turkeys Here is the advice given by Professor Pro-fessor Halpin, Wisconsin College of Agriculture to an inquirer who asks about the plan of fattening turkeys on barley: "In reply to your letter, would say that If I were you, I would not depend de-pend upon barley alone for fattening turkeys, but would use a combination of barley and corn or barley, wheat and corn. In addition to this I should want to feed some milk. Barley alone is incomplete. Barley and green grass and milk would bring your turkeys along fairly well. A combination, though, of barley with -corn or barley with corn and wheat and the milk would give you, on an average, more satisfactory gains. Barley is good poultry grain, but like all the other grains must be supplemented with these other things to get good results. "I note you have to buy corn. 1 would urge you to buy good, dry, old corn. I wouldn't feed turkeys new corn as there are many reports of trouble from the heavy feeding of new corn to turkeys." Wisconsin Agriculturist. |