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Show Home Grown Feed Proves Value in Turkey Test That the use cf low protein mash with a base of home-iii-'Avn wheat and barley showed a 40 p ' cent d crease in the fe'ed cent of producing a pound of turkey, Is recorded in the data, compiled by Profe iser Byron Alder of the Utah St?ti Agricultural college. Th s data show that it costs 12 cents for feed to produce a pound of turkey using a high protein level and yellow com and wheat bb the grain base of the mash and grain mixtura, where it costs only 7V4 cents w th a low protein level when- wheat and barley bar-ley were ured. ThJ turkeys were we'ghed, dressed and prepared for market by the students of the poultry department. No "lack of growth nor lack in quality of meat seemed to follow the use of homet-grown grains ac-cardtTg ac-cardtTg to this tfcst. Mortality was equally low in both peens where corn or barley was used, but was nearly double in the pens fed a very high protein ration aa compared com-pared with pens fed a low protein ration There was no marked lm -provement In weight, flfvtu'ng condition or feather growth in tha birds on thi high protein levels, lev-els, Professor Alder sid. |