Show favl MILKS HIGH PLACE IN FLOCKS RATION efficient egg making food at present prices milk at arese prese present nt prices a relatively cheap food deserves a place in the lie poultry ration declares P B zumbro extension specialist in poultry husbandry for the ohio state university if liquid milk Is available on the farm this form Is the cheapest to use for every gallon of liquid muk fed dally to each ona one hundred tens hens the protein concentrate tn in the mash may be reduced 6 5 per cent he says if liquid milk Is not available dried milk may be used in the mash when liquid milk Is not available for the poultry ration the following grain mash ration Is recommended by the poultry specialist for the mash ground yellow corn 40 pounds ground wheat 20 pounds ground oats 20 pounds dried milli milk 5 pounds meat scraps 15 pounds salt I 1 pound for the grain cracked corn CO 0 pounds wheat 40 pounds and oats or barley 10 pounds A moist mash fed in the summer will stimulate the poultry appetite and result in increased production says zumbro the regular laying mash may be used in making the moist mash for each hens 2 pounds of the mash moistened with milk or buttermilk until it Is in a condition Is sufficient for a dally feeding it is not necessary to have special feeders for this special moist mash it may be fed on top of the dry mash in the dry mash hoppers alfalfa urged as best crop for poultry yard in making a choice of all forage crops for poultry yards select alfalfa a writer in the prairie barmer cr alfalfa la Is a permanent crop that will grow throughout the entire season without cultivation ti and can withstand more hot dry weather ieather than almost any other crop bluegrass Is good pasture if you cannot have alfalfa you may want to sow a temporary crop and we suggest oats for the early part of the year and sudan grass for the rest of the geason season plow the oats during the later part of may or early in june and seed the sudan grass farmers are getting away from the idea of a permanent poultry yard for their fowls they are moving their houses each year to new ground many of them use their meadows or pastures for range thus giving the birds ground 1 that has had no chickens on it for one to two years cull out poor pullets some interesting figures have been secured from a large number bof rhode island flocks nearly Ise ariy 10 birds returned between march 1 I 1 and september SO 30 a profit of cover over feed costs to in the case of pullets and over teed feed costs tor for hens the average egg production was 1009 eggs for or pullets and 9 13 1 eggs e gs for hens for the seven months one lesson learned was the importance of culling out pullets that idonat do not pay their way A suggestion here cere la is that these producers nou bp be i culled out when the pullet flock has reached about 2 per cent in egg production at that time those that are unduly slow in maturing can be 11 easily easily identified those that are not producing producing can be removed to an other V pen ted fed ang ration i and then if they do not respond can pe be disposed of as unprofitable 61 grass for chicks B i 5 the barer the ground the small 1 er it the chance to raise good chicks U so a good many years of experience land and experimentation have proved j early chicks chias are always more de al rable because they grow better have less mortality the cockerels cockerell cocker els I 1 are ready for market earlier and A hence bring more money and the 3 ballets pallets ka ettare are ready a to lay jay earlier tn in the tall fall and winter when eggs are high euph I 1 As to why y bare ground 1 help ep raise good chicks authorities I 1 point out ou that a good bood tt growth of r clover or bluegrass wass insures ia is liberal ih supply of green breen feed Is ach much more idore sanitary tary than bare and is an insurance against pa sease laying hens need lime 3 the importance of keeping liens hens pell ell supplied with limestone oyster hell ell or some other form of cal um carbonate bonate la is emphasized by results suits obtained in investigations where no limestone or oyster 0 ell liwai was fed but the ration was 0 wr berwise e the same the I 1 ors ra observed y that athe the hatchability of fertilized gs was diminished ls fudally be zero the percentage cent of infertile eggs eg creased 1 r fewer ewer eggs ere laid ith i the 6 gea eggs became bc alue amal aie ler th e eus sa became e lighter i ath the welded hicks chicks hatched wela lied less |