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Show FEW RATIONS FOR FATTENING agricultural Experiment Station of Ponnaylvanla Glvea Comblnatlona Worked 6ucceafully. The agricultural experiment station Of the Pennsylvania State college Bug gests the following grain rations for fattening poultry, an bavins been used with success by them. Where yellow flesh la wanted, a ration should be made of cornmeal, five jiarts; ground oatg (hulls removed) two part; anl mal menl, one part. Mixed with Hour milk. Where a whiter flesh la want ed, the following rations are recom mended. Cornmeal. two parts, gioutu; buckwheat, two parts; ground oats two parts. Mixed with aour milk. An other, barley meal, two parts; middlings, mid-dlings, two parts, buckwheat, two parts; cornmeal, one part. Mixed with sour milk. Another, the rcfusi-from rcfusi-from shredded wheat and sour milk When birds are confined for fatten Ing, sour milk aids digestion and keep the system from getting fever Isb. If no milk Is available, some form of animal or green food must be supplied to make the best gains. Should a chicken, for any reason, get off Its food, a good plan Is to turn It out In tbs yard. It will usually recover re-cover In a short time. Water should be given once a day and grit twice a week. The rations should be fed rather rath-er soft, about like porridge. The food should never remain before them from one meal to another. Take It away 20 minutes after feeding. |