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Show Free Choice of Grain and Mash Is Good Plan Giving pullets on range free choice of grain and mash is a good practice, according to C. II. Ferguson, Fergu-son, specialist In poultry for the agricultural extension service at the Ohio State university. "Here at the University farm," he says, "we have been carrying our pullets on an all-mash ration containing con-taining 10 per cent dried milk and 8 per cent meat scrap until they are from twelve to fourteen weeks old. At that time we have been reducing the milk to 4 per cent, leaving 8 per cent meat scrap In the ration and continuing to use an all-mash feed. This method has given us very satisfactory results but may not be applicable to all farm conditions, con-ditions, particularly farms producing produc-ing their own grains." If the poultryman has his own corn and wheat, the ration could be left unchanged and the pullets given free choice of a grain mixture of wheat and corn In addition to their mash containing 10 per cent milk and 8 per cent meat scrap. This method of feeding Is gaining considerable con-siderable prominence even for laying lay-ing flocks. At the present price of milk, Ferguson Fer-guson points out. many farmers are turning to the use of the skimmed produce as a means of saving some cash outlay for protein concentrates. |