Show RATION FAVORED FOR HENS ua from xua the unit united to states department of it Am rho with wheat BO high poultry men will b be be lot anten too to learn that I 1 on the united st to department of ture lure as experiment perome t furm farm excellent egg yf g results W were secured r d v still ath A thiry h et 1 9 r ration a tl thirty L leghorn e g h ra pul pill ai lets to which this r ration ahm has been fed for one and a la halt mf you yeara prod produced td an everege average of 1471 1 eggs per he hen fur far the pullet ear cor this compares bov ably with egg yields secured bear ed on other rations containing win at and ad on rations f tor a more torp expense rushe e this facia more or over r curing bring the first 36 18 weeks of us its second liscand beir cl in has raver mard 28 i egg eget per par hen ban 17 5 c eftis g 9 per he hen hot being ag ill produced in mar march 1 I T the h a same hent ration has been f fed it since last november to a pen of buff orpington pullets which have laid 53 ego egg per hen ben to in 20 va weela eel a and hold held the hight egg record of any of the large feeding alone of pullets it at the far farm this I 1 year two tell other PC pens h however u aam are less than one mic egg per lien behind this pen the ration used wag oas as fell follows 6 scratch dry mail fou I 1 p pounds ouch C cracked sd corn roal 3 pounds llo corn meal I 1 pud pound oats at 11 pound beef scrap crop the scratch mixture was fed sparing ly so 0 o that the hens bone III beat about equal parts of this mixture and of the dry next math the total grain consumption upon of teed feed for the year was 62 p po ade of at I 1 hill ag 26 m bar barbell bill alx 1 ture lure throughout the year I 1 it I 1 took 0 ok 4 6 pounds of fed to produce produce R s egg this scratch mixture with wheat 2 57 cracked track it coin 1 85 and ad oflus it to 70 amis cents C me cpr or dimsh bushel la it 44 cents C 1 per in liun cited pounds clasper tb than I 1 I 1 ti the earn mixture ot of equal parts part corn r and oats oat adami r nash which ald li 11 ch per than M th this one to la made of 4 per cent each large bran and ons d mid things 26 per par cent at b beet of scrap and as 6 1 per I cent at cornmeal coin meal if the wheat beat Is ornit omitted ted from the rn ree ti it m n it ft la Is very to feed fl a coo sid erable proportion of beef scrip in the mb but with pre t prices b beef eel scrap it Is one of tilts the cheape he post bt p poultry I 1 oil feed beeda coas considering id ring its blah protein con tent lent and it its ts adaptability as an uv alve eight taking making combination teed feed these experiments the specialists say any prone proe that cheat is not essential in a an it egg CRR laying ration and that excel lent results n can on be secured by using corn core and oats as aa a scratch mixture prodded that tins ties Is fed alti ulti ft ath a rood good math feed containing 23 25 per cent beef scrap c ITT I 1 e 1 MN x 2 SINGLE COMB WHITE LEGHORN COCKEREL |