Show J VA lit CAN REDUCE COST OF POULTRY FEED may replace costly rations with soybean meal by n E I 1 cray poultry department ohio state t its university Poultry men can reduce the costs of rations for chicks and for the laying flock by substituting pressure cured soybean meal for part ot of the high priced ingredients that are used to f furnish ur the birds protein dried mills milk and meat scraps t two wa common materials used to furnish protein in poultry rations cost more than the soybean meal and the cost of the ration for laying hens is very important at this season of declining egg prices the soybean meal can be used to replace at least one half of the meat scrap and to reduce the amount of dried milk to 2 per cent of the laying ration from 3 to 5 per cent of dried milk should be kept in chick re eions ground soybeans containing the natural oil cannot be used successfully as poultry teed feed but the meal produced at mills where the oil is extracted Is satisfactory except that a mineral mixture should be added the mineral mixture can be made of 40 pounds bone meal 20 pounds limestone and 20 pounds salt this mixture should be used at the rate of one pound to every five pounds of soybean meal at present market prices dried milk Is selling for five times as much as soybean meal and meat scraps we are nearly twice as expensive decreasing cr creasing asing the amount of milk in the ration will lower the vitamin G content but this can be supplied by feeding reen green grass good legume hay or alfalfa meal ineal |