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Show BUYING POULTRY FOOD 1 OfflTITIj The old saying, "No loss without some gain," applies to the poultry feed situation. High prices of feeds have. made poultry keepers consider values of feeds as never before, and they are! rapidly learning how to buy more! economically. x ' While farmers have, as a rule, fed , their poultry the grain that was cheap - est on -the farm, many poultry spe-; ciallsts and most small poultry keep-: ers have been accustomed to use their favorite poultry feeds without con-, sidering either the quality of the sup-1 ply or the possibility of using cheaper J substitutes. This attitude of the buy-i ers of poultry feeds has made it easyi for feed dealers to sell low-grade and damaged grain at much higher prices' vun jaiu nave been ODtained ifi poultry keepers everywhere were studying and practicing economy in buying feeds. When buyers of poultry poul-try feeds buy with reference to quality qual-ity and price as compared with the cheapest grain on the market, the price of that grain will control the prices of all other grain for poultry feed. Corresponding Prices of Grains. Under normal conditions, corn is In nearly all parts of the United States the cheapest poultry feed. At the present pres-ent time oats are nearly everywhere cheaper than corn, and In some parts of the country barley is cheaper than oats. When corn goes down to $1.50 a bushel, oats should be 75 cents and barley $1.20 a bushel to give the same valuo for the money, when fed to poultry. poul-try. The relative commercial feeding valuos of the grains are most readily computed by using the prices per hundred pounds, taking corn as the standard and dotermiuing the relative value of any other grain by a rough comparison of its feeding value with that of corn. It is not practicable to mnke accurate calculations for this purpose, but a calculation which assumes as-sumes that, except for indigestible matter and deterioration, the common grains are, pound for pound, of the same feeding value, and rates them accordingly will meet the requirements require-ments of tho case. Judging Quality of Feed. Th rnmmnn rh.irnptors find nnnril- tions of grains which roughly determine deter-mine their values as poultry feeds are easily estimated by tho eyo or by weight or bulk In measures or containers con-tainers of known capacity. Good cracked corn is hard, bright, clean, and free from soft and chaffy particles. Corn that is crushed (not cracked), and shows much soft, chaffy, and scaly matter, should bo rated proportionately pro-portionately below good cracked corn in feeding value. Cracked corn in which any considerablu amount of greenish discoloration appears should be rejected as unfit for poultry. Oats, and barley with tho hulls on are at onco seen to contain more indigestible in-digestible matter than corn and wheat. Again, the Indigestible hulls covering-oats covering-oats and barley make those grains less palatablo to poultry, and their feeding value must be discounted for that. An average sample of oats should bo valued at 12 to 15 per cent less than a good sample of cracked corn; an average sample of barloy from 3 to 5 per cent less than good cracked com. Oats weighing less than the United States standard of 32 pounds to the bushel and barley under tho Unitod States standard of 48 pounds to the bushel should bo discounted in price according to tho Hhortige In weight,, while for weights above tho standards' tho usual discount in price may bo reduced. Oats and barloy that aro much below standard weight usually contain a large proportion of grains that aro nearly all hull. These, poultry poul-try will not eat unless starved into it Value of Poor Wheat. Wheat of good milling quality Is not sold for poultry Coed except in sections sec-tions that grow much wheat and little corn, and occasionally from small . local supplies. The beat wheat usually available for poultry is not actually worth more as a poultry feed than good cracked qorn, but a poultry keeper can Bometimes afford to pay a little more for it because It can bo kept longer without deterioration, and under somo conditions it is fed with loss waste. Wheat that has been perceptibly damaged by fire, water, or frost has less valuo as poultry feod than good cracked corn. There is no advantage or oconomy in buying damaged wheat for poultry except at its actual value In comparison with the corn, oats, and barley available. Tho Truo Basis of Prices. Low-grado and damaged grains are suitable for poultry feed if blrdB in good condition will eat them readily. They can bo fed. profitably If they havo been bought at prices representing represent-ing their actual values for poultry feeding, as compared with that of other available feeds. Better buying by poultry keepers will not immediately imme-diately stop the" selling of poor feeds at high prices, but eventually it will establish prices for them on tho basis of the price of the cheapest feed on the market, and not, as now, at a small reduction from the prices of good grades of the same grains. oo nil! COUPLE HAG ! I SEEHiHMN I CUE .;: I H Frank Herman and Mrs. Lena Eg- ( 1 gerrs, Persia, Iowa, who were arrest- ' lfl ed at a local rooming house by Sergt i Jerry Kelliher and Detective J. L. i Hobson are being held at the police stition awaiting advice from tho shcr- ( ' iff in Logan, Iowa, whore the woman is saiu 10 nave a nusuuuu, rruu jk- ,i gerrs, and for whom Herman worked jj before he and Mrs. Eggerrs started " ,1 west . Tho pair were arrested in response ; to a telegram received by Police Chief ' IH Browning from Fred Eggerrs, who had , 'Jj trailed them as far as Cheyenne, The 'J husband discovered that the fugitives had obtained a license and were mar- j rled at Cheyenne, afterwards leaving I for Ogden. It is not known whether Eggerrs gave up the chase at Cheyen- ;; ne and returned home or whether ho now is enroute to Ogden. , Police Chief Browning stated today that the imprisoned confessed they jH ran away from Persia, Iowa, and that Herman" purchased the tickets. Also that they were married in Cheyenne and that they were posing as husband jH and wife when arrested in Ogden. , t Theso confessions, Chief Browning states, makes thm liable to prosecu-tidn prosecu-tidn by the federal government on a whlto slavery chargo in Persia, Iowa, , and in Ogden, or for bigamy in Chey-enne. Chey-enne. The Ogden qfficers have notified the Iowa state authorities and the fed-eral fed-eral authorities at Salt Lake City. Somo disposition of tho case may be , made tomorrow. The woman says she loft with Her- ') man, the family hired hand, because her husband was cruel. Herman mere- ly admits that he yielded to Mrs. Eg- , jH gerrs charms .and eloped with her. Tho jH woman is about 30 years old, has big IH brown oyes, is plump and fairly at- tractivelv attired. Herman is about 35 ( years old, has hlue eyes, is nearly G feet till and has the appearance of the usual farm hand. oo jH Steel, when hardened, decreased in IH specific gravity, but increases in length and diameter. |