Show potatoes for chickens fattening egg producers when unmarketable potatoes are available they caw can be used to advantage for poultry feeding either for fattening poultry or for egg production according to a writer in hoards dairyman potatoes should not be regarded as a succulent alent feed or as a green feed even though they contain approximately 80 per cent of water they must be cooked before feeding and simply served as a partial substitute tor for grain their value becomes apparent when the solids or dry matter content of corn and wheat is directly compared with that of potatoes with a similar moisture content centena cen tent I 1 in other words it if 70 per cent of the water is removed from potatoes the composition of the remain ing residue becomes practically the same as that of corn and wheat insofar as protein carbohydrates and digestible nutrients are concerned it is because ot of the high wa ter content 80 per cent of potatoes as compared to that of corn and wheat about 10 per cent that 4 to 5 pounds of potatoes are required to substitute tor for I 1 pound of grain hence a simple convenient method tor for calculating the approximate feeding value of a bushel of po potatoes is to divide the current p price rice per bushel of corn or wheat by 45 |