Show salt needed ingredient in ration for chicks salt has been recognized as a needed ingredient in a chick ration but recently there has been some disagreement among poultry specialists as to the exact proportion which gives the best results preliminary results secured at the university of wisconsin in feeding trials the past year indicate that re eions containing 1 per cent of salt result in better g growth than the same rations containing no salt and very much better results than when salt Is added on a basis of 5 per cent of 0 the ration at twenty weeks of age the chicks fed the stock ration without salt averaged a 1499 1410 grams in weight those fed the same ration plus 1 per cent of salt averaged icso grams while those fed the ration plus 5 per cent of salt averaged only 1412 grams the death losses in the lot fed 6 5 per cent salt were six times as great as for each of the other two lots being SO 30 per ent cerit in contrast to 5 per cent |