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Show ham Thy F UIJXTlVl POORLY BALANCED RATION ESCHEWED Pays Well to Give Pullets Most Careful Attention. When chickens are raised hy artificial arti-ficial means. Ihe conditions under which Ihe.v have lo grow and develop, are oflen far from ideal. If. in aihli don io this handicap, their ration is ton scanty in amount, or if its coniio sition is unsuiled to their needs, there is little hope of being ahle to grow them al a profit. Not only this, hut the unfavorable inlluence of wrong conditions early in life may extend throughout the first laying year and so resnit in a decreased de-creased return as compared with the income from a well grown flock. Carefully controlled experiments have shown thai a poorly ha la need ration fed to young chickens not only reduces the rate of gain, bul also reduces re-duces the mature weight of the pullets, pul-lets, increases the age at which the first egg is In id. and materially reduces re-duces the numliei of eggs that will he laid during I lie first laying year, even though the ration fed to the pullets after they are placed in the laying house may he a good one. Since next year's income from the poultry enterprise will "depend to a large extent on how well the pullets are grown, it is obviously worth while to give them the very hesl of care and attention from hutching time right on through the summer. The newer information ahom poultry nutrition shows clearly that there Is no one nest ration. Hither simple or complex mixtures may be used, provided pro-vided fhey are balanced with respect to the essential nutrients required by growing pullets. |