| Show ohio station advocates all mash chick ration the rearing of chicks to maturity on nn an all mash ration Is a rather new venture in poultry keeping and wo we shall have to take the word of those who have tried it as to its value this s system has been developed and advocated by the ohio agricultural experiment station at wooster and Is fully described in a bulletin issued by this station they state that they have found the method successful on their experimental farm and equally so in tile the hands of other poultry men of the state some other stations where it tins been haen tried discount these claims somewhat there Is no question as to the attractiveness of the plan and the results at the ahlo station should be lelent to give warrant for trying i Js la out j those who have followed the teach ing of poultry experts over a consult erable period of years have learned that there Is little that can be considered as absolutely fixed even in the p seemingly fundamental principles of feeding and care revolutionary find ings are re apt at an any time to upset long ton JI accepted practices the all mash r ra alan alon should not have scratch grains 4 added to it since it combines in itself both the scratch arid and the mash and the addition of more scratch grain would unbalance it that Is it would change the proportion of protein foods to the other ingredients and presumably lessen its ita value an all mash should be more coarsely ground than other mashes to make it more palatable |
