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Show POULTRY MILK'S HIGH PLACE IN FLOCK'S RATION Efficient Egg-Making Food at Present Prices. Milk, at present prices a relatively cheap food, deserves a place In the poultry ration, declares P. B. Zumbro, extension specialist In poultry husbandry hus-bandry for the Ohio State university. If liquid milk is available, on the farm, this form Is the cheapest to use. For every gallon of liquid milk fed dally to each one hundred hens, the protein concentrate In the mash may be reduced 5 per cent, he says. If liquid milk Is not available, dried milk may be used in the mash. When liquid milk Is not available for the poultry ration, the following grain-mash ration is recommended by the poultry specialist For the mash : ground yellow corn, 40 pounds; ground wheat, 20 pounds; ground oats, 20 pounds; dried milk, 5 pounds; meat scraps, 15 pounds ; salt, 1 pound. For the grain : cracked corn, 50 pounds ; wheat, 40 pounds; and oats or barley, 10 pounds. A moist mash fed In the summer will stimulate the poultry appetite and result re-sult In Increased production, says Zumbro. The regular laying mash may be used In making the moist mash. For each 100 hens, 2 pounds of the mash moistened with milk or buttermilk until It is in a crumbly condition. con-dition. Is sufficient for a dally feeding. It Is not necessary to have special feeders for this special moist mash; It may be fed on top of the dry mash In the dry mash hoppers. |