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Show FEED FOR FATTENING FOWLS In Some Corn Districts Corn Is Main I Item and In Others Oats, Barley Bar-ley or Some Other Grain. By PROF. JAMES DRTDEN. Poultry Department, Oregon Agricultural Col-' lege.) There are several rations that can' be fed successfully in fattening chickens. chick-ens. In some districts corn Is the main Item, and in others oats, barley or other grain. The price of grain will govern the ration fed, largely. There Is no better fattening food, probably, than good plump oats fine ground. Barley, ground up fine. Is also al-so good as part of the ration. A good ration would be ground oats, barley and middlings In equal parts and a little bran mixed with buttermilk or Bour milk. If one cannot get milk it will be necessary to feed some animal meal or beef scrap, or a little blood meal. About 10 per cent of the weight of the grain la the right proportion ot blood meal. If corn Is as cheap as the other grains, I would feed corn liberally. The grain should be mixed with about twice as much milk as of ground grain, so that it will be very soft and drip from the end of a stick. No green food is necessary. The chickens should be fed all they will eat twice a day. At first one should begin by feeding light, but after af-ter two or three days they should be given all they will eat up twice a day. Food should not be left standing before be-fore them, however. The chicken should be confined in a small pen or fattening crates where they will get no exercise. They will be quieter and do better In a dark pen. The feeding may be done by lamplight at night if that is more convenient |