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Show PROVED VALUE OF RUN ON BLUEGRASS Hatchability Also Advanced by Proper Rations. Feed the flock the proper rations and hatchability will be increased, according ac-cording to C. M. Ferguson, poultry specialist at the Ohio State university. A series of experiments dating back to 1924 at the Ohio agricultural experiment ex-periment station shows that a basal ration containing 30 per cent yellow corn, when fed to birds in confinement, confine-ment, produced an average hatchability hatchabil-ity of only 36.9 per cent. Skimmilk added to this ration showed, considerable consid-erable improvement ; alfalfa hay a slight improvement; a bare outdoor yard a slight improvement; and an outdoor yard with bluegrass increased hatchability to 60.9 per cent. Following this experiment, Ferguson Fergu-son says, a second experiment was run in which the ground yellow corn in the basil ration was increased from 30 to 65 per cent. This increase supplied sup-plied sufficient amounts of vitamin A to prevent roup. In addition to this, the birds were given as much sunshine sun-shine as could be admitted by placing plac-ing the feeders in front of open windows. win-dows. In spite of this, soy bean hay, alfalfa and red clover hay added to the ration increased the hatchability from 35.7 to 61.7 per cent for soy bean hay ; 59.4 per cent for alfalfa hay ; and 57.8 per cent for clover hay. Here again bluegrass range jumped the hatchability up to 64 per cent. |