| Show PO poultry tr LY 0 DRIED GRASS FOR I 1 HENS GOOD FEED chemist accidentally finds valuable egg booster Q F cl a kansas city chemist accidentally stumbled onto tills this discovery for seven years lie he had been trying to boost egg production and disease resistance in his small flock by feeding green stuffs of various ous kinds including including t alfalfa meal ec be yond 10 per cent alfalfa meal w was as li 11 armful common vegetables no better belter then in 1031 1931 ills his greens rols ture hire happened to have a lot of dried young wheat and oats in if ills hens began laying their heads beads off leg horns horns averaged 04 94 per cent from may blay ato to september and mortality was cut in half sir mr was puzzled and iset set out to find out why after several i years more work he found the secret dried young grasses these states a i writer in the country home reach their peak in nutritional value just before jointing normally about the twentieth day cut prior to jointing there will not dot only be another crop but the dried grasses will be two or three times richer in protein and vitamins potato growers in the kaw and the missouri river bottoms who have been planting cereals after harvest for green manure have on this basis been plowing under a crop worth an acre to poultry men scientists in the united states department part ment of agriculture at purdue university louisiana state and elsewhere who have been investigating the curing of alfalfa soy bean and other hays report a much higher vitamin A content in hays cut early and cured so BO as to preserve the leaves and green color vitamin A is the one which Is so hig highly bly prized in eggs butter and other human foods and it Is this vitamin which Is lost when hay Is cut too late or when th the leaves shatter or are blanched by sun or rain with vita vitamins m ins being poked at us from all directions we get et a little confused but its hard bard to ignore the practical results which men like C F are getting |
