Show THE UTAH RATION IL A C STATION HAS IMS DEVELOPED A POULTRY RATION ADAPTED TO WEST the experiment station of the utah agricultural college after ox teats tests has dev a youl ay iy ration particularly adapted to western conditions which I 1 t calls the utah ration this ration las ims been proved most satisfactory by the col lege ege experimenters it ja follows scratch feed two or three hours before the fowls go to roost they are fedin ed in straw litter a little more than they will eat cat so that all are supplied and somo some left over until morn log ag when the fowl fowls cit o jt off the in the morning they get somo some rood good vigorous exercise working lor for this grain loft left in the wheat pun pounds ds corn pounds keep a dry mash in the feed hopper open during the after afternoon nocia and feed this mash moistened with blit about noon just what wha t tho th fowls will clean up in a few minutes mi cutes mash bran pounds 10 pounds cornmeal pounds chopped barley pounds meat meal scraps 60 pounds salt three pounds or about one half pound salt to P pounds of mash in the wet mash is added about 20 pounds of dry alfalfa chopped fine keep the fowls on free ganv where possible with plenty of green feed growing from early spring to late fall or feed during summer and winter inter sugar beets alfalfa clover etc all they will iut at oyster shell and charcoal cliar coal are kept in a feed hopper available all the time chopped oats may also be kept in a so separate parate hopper when de sired good fresh water is always available fattening Fat g ration s content when the broilers or old stock are ready to fatten or finish for market they should be confined where they get got little opportunity to exercise or run about and should receive only soft feeds this finishing period casti from eight days to two weeks depending on the age and condition of 0 the fowls tho the feed should be m follows pounds shorts pounds cornmeal 60 50 pounds bral mixed with buttermilk if available if not skim milk so that the mixture will have the consistency 0 of gruel or mush |