Show RATIONS GIVEN TO HASTEN NEW FEATHERS PRIZE WINNING COLUMBIAN PLYMOUTH ROCK COCK hens fleas must finish molting bolting before cold weather starts or they will not toy lay 1 in the winter months ill because of this net fact a special combination of f feed fd d should be given to hasten the growth of the new feathers according to ross M sherwood of the department of poultry husbandry 1 in the kansas state agricultural college use linseed oil meal sour milk ilk and ad b berf scraps are useful 1 I t all 1 I s acas saya by ur mr sherwood hot but linseed oil meal is 18 espe epe dally good at this time there are certain food materials in oil meal which are needed in feather building and ad aich ure are not found in the other feeds mentioned practical feeders of ten tea point out that ou oil meal lookas the old feathers this may be the result of the rapid growth of new feathers caused by food materials contained la 1 the oil 11 meal eel ration for far molting bolting season ease th the following ration is ia recommended tor for the molting bolting season 60 pounds of corn com cho chop b 60 ponna of w wheat h b bran n lut cat 20 pounds of i most meat scraps Ds and ad I 1 15 pounds mands of alf old process oil all meal this Is a fed t in conal combination lation with a bc scratching th in g food feed made ad up ot 1 two or more to ot of the cheapest grainy grains locally after the fowls have completed the tha molt all and are well feathered this mash may be given 60 p pounds us of corn or clan chop 60 pounds of wheat laran bran 30 pounds of wheat short aborts bud and 20 pounds islands of went scraps |