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Show T" FEED SKIM MILK TO YOUR LAYING HENS In the Poultry Raising department of.fiie Farm nnd Fireside a contrlb-utor contrlb-utor writes: , Feeding skim milk to mako pork Is abpuLthosamo as casting pearls to 5wm6a9 demonstrated? by djterert experiment stations. A three ear experiment conducted -t Purdue, Indiana JExperlment .Station, .Sta-tion, shows that, skim milk lsworth. ilraost four times as much when fed o laing hens as when fed to hogs., Two pons of hens exactly nllko as o breeding and renrlng wero used 'or the experiment and were fed and loused exactly alike, except ono pen j as furnished a liberal supply ot skim milk, and no meat or other form eggs per hen per year. Those getting no skim milk averaged only 3G eggs penmen per year. The milk fed hens returned an average net prom of $1,40 and tho mllkless hens n loss ot a trlllo over 4 cents per hen. |