Show AN AIN EGG PRODUCING RATION WITHOUT CORN nr ily DYRON ALDI aldria 1 R UTAH agricultural STATION with a aloot of 0 vigorous well developed pullets or hens bens kept in a comfort corno como fort ablo house the number of eggs which they will produce during the winter or entire entaro year la is ony a quest ion of how and what they aro fed good feeding is to giva tho the birds all thoy can consume of a palatable mixture of feeder that will supply all the that is IH necessary to maintain the body and a 0 manufacture the eggs since the first law of nature la is self preservation tho the amount to teed feed i Is important if the teed feed Is limit bd in amount or hind egg production I 1 Is first sacrificed and not body maintenance te to nance all that Is known of the value of arti artificial fical light in increasing production Is that it makes it possible for the liens hens to oat eat moro food feed grains alono alone are fattening feeds an abundance of grain without a protein faid ft id to supply the material necessary to make the white of tho the egg and those thosa without limo to mako make the shell will not give a satisfactory egg production tho the necessary protein can be supplied by feeding skim akim milk buttor butter milk meat meal fish or treah fresh meat which ever Is used must be supplied regular and ana in proper amounts thero there is no variety it grain that ia fit so important that it should be fed no matter what it costs As aa a rule the homo produced foods are cheaper and will give satisfactory results abood A good ration lor for egg production maln cheaper grains can bo st 1 aws scratch feed wheat 90 ibs iba oats 30 lbs lb mash bran 25 lbs ibb shorts 22 lbs ibs barley 20 ibs iba oats 12 lbs moat meat meal 18 lbs iba charcoal 26 albo salt 8 1 i 4 lbs ibs bono bone alual 15 lbs fresh clean water and oyster shell or crushed limo stone should always lit iu kept available for or the liens hens A daily feed of dry alfalfa leave loa TO and mangles or sugar beets la Is also desirable during winter and treat fresh green ki ien feed in the summer the above amount of food should supply laying hens for or ton days tho the scratch feed should bo be led fed twice a day in clean dry straw litter about G to 8 or 10 inches deep one third in the morning and two thirds in tho the lato late afternoon the rho mash should bo fed dry and kept in teed feed hoppers always available to the liens hens and they should eat cat about the proportion of mash and scratch teed feed given in order to prop property orly balance the nutrients the hens do not eat it readily part of it ib may bo be moistened with milk or water to mako make it moro inore palatable the dry la Is preferable it if the hens oat eat iti it readily because of the labor involved in and feeding a moist mash thirty seven pounds of 0 mill run bran and shorts may bo be used to replace tho the bran and shorts in the mash if tho price of these feeds Is moio than 80 per cent of the cost ot of fine ground wheat then it la Is advisable to use about 35 pounds of ground wheat instead of the bran and shorts in tho abobo mixture this la is especially anio ruo when I 1 ground oats oata and barley aro are used instead of corn I 1 I 1 it if three gallons 0 of skim milk or ilk 0 a anro to available each day for each hens the meat meal may bo left out of tho the mash and tho the milk left wi will furnish the news sary arite britain A part of tl amount of milk ma mat v used and a proportional amount of meat meal added to ia tho the mash corn at present prices Is too expensive to uso use as an important part lot of a laying ration in this lo clity good results can bo be obtained by using tho other groins grains where laying hens havo have been accustomed to C corn om as a par of their ration tho the change to other grains should bo be mado dado gradually J |