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canneries located there. Cottonseed meal is used more extensively 

 in the South than in the North and West because the South is a 

 cotton-growing region. 



EXAMPLES OF POULTRY RATIONS 



The rations that follow are simply given as examples of well- 

 constructed rations. They are given in detail to concretely point 

 out the way in which rations for different purposes should be made 

 up and fed. 



Grain Mash 



75 pounds whole wheat, 25 pounds bran, 



50 pounds whole or rolled barley, 25 pounds shorts, 

 25 pounds cracked corn. 25 pounds ground barley, 



15 pounds commercial fish scrap, 

 10 pounds linseed meal, 

 1\ pounds fine charcoal, 

 .5 pound fine dairy salt. 



Oats could be substituted for the barley in the above grain 

 mixture, and whole Egyptian corn, milo or other grain-sorghums for 

 Indian corn. Ground oats could be used in place of ground barley, 

 and soybean meal could substitute for linseed meal in the mash. If 

 skim milk or buttermilk were available, it could be kept before the 

 fowls in drinking vessels and no other animal protein feed need be 

 fed. Fresh, finely-ground, green bone from the butcher shop could 

 be used in place of other animal feed, and fed at the rate of about 

 one-half ounce per hen per day. It could be fed separately at noon 

 if the dry mash were used, or mixed in the wet mash. Milk could 

 be used to mix a wet mash in addition to feeding it alone or, if 

 only a limited amount of milk is available, it could be used to 

 moisten the wet mash, and the amount of other animal feed reduced. 



Green feed should be plentifully supplied. Grit and oyster 

 shell should be kept before the fowls in self -feeding hoppers at all 

 times (Fig. 101). 



The mixed grain is fed lightly in a deep litter (Fig. 104) in the 

 morning and more freely at night so that the fowls will get all they 

 want before going to roost. The mash, if fed as a dry mash, should 

 be kept constantly in open hoppers before such active fowls as 

 Leghorns. For heavier fowls which have a greater tendency to eat 

 too much mash and to become over-fat, it may be necessary to keep 

 the hoppers closed in the morning and not open them till noon. 

 Approximately one pint of grain to ten hens should be fed in the 

 morning and one and one-half pints at night. 

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