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Show CHICK MASHES CAN BE PREPARED AT HOME Good Results if Properly Ground and Mixed. tt w Alp. Poultry Extension i !pf By.1?,-. folleie of Agriculture. Uril-laer3y Uril-laer3y o imnols.-WNU Service. Many Poultry flock owners who wonder about using their own farm Tains for chick-starting feeds can do so with good, results if they can fully select, grind and mix the ln- grFiocktSowners of the state were raising more than SS.000,000 chickens chick-ens annually in the last census bo that economy of feeding is a big ''when ground wheat Is used In place of wheat bran and wheat middlings, a starting mash can be made from 50 pounds ground jel-low jel-low corn, 15 pounds ground wheat, 10 pounds finely ground oats, 10 pounds dried skimmilk or dried buttermilk, but-termilk, 10 pounds meat scrap, 4 pounds alfalfa leaf meal and 1 pound salt. When soybean oil meal is available, avail-able, the formula Is 50 pounds ground yellow corn, 10 pounds soybean soy-bean oil meal, 10. pounds finely ground oats, 10 pounds dried skimmilk skim-milk or dried buttermilk, 4 pounds Bifnlfa leaf meal, 10 pounds ground wheat, 3 pounds bone meal, 2 pounds ground oyster shell and 1 pound salt. When wheat bran and wheat middlings mid-dlings are used In place of ground wheat, the formula is 50 pounds ground yellow corn, 4 pounds alfalfa alfal-fa leaf meal, 10 pounds wheat flour middlings, 10 pounds dried skimmilk skim-milk or dried buttermilk, 10 pounds meat scrap, 15 pounds bran and 1 pound salt. When the chicks can be given milk to drink instead-of water, a mash can be made from 55 pounds ground yellow corn, 5 pounds alfalfa alfal-fa leaf meal, 15 pounds finely ground oats, 2 pounds ground oyster shell. 15 pounds ground wheat, 2 pounds bone meal, 5 pounds meat scrap and 1 pound salt. A mash mixture which has given satisfactory results when fed to chicks confined to batteries can be made from 40 pounds ground yellow yel-low corn, 20 pounds wheat bran, 20 pounds wheat flour middlings, 4 pounds alfalfa leaf meal, 4 pounds dried milk, 10 pounds meat scrap, 1 pint of cod liver oil and 1 pound salt. |