512 A STUDY OF FARM ANIMALS 



Ration No. 2 



2 Ibs. corn or barley meal 2 Ibs. cracked corn 

 1 " bran 1 " oats 



1 " middlings 1 " wheat or barley 



1 " meat or fish scrap 



Ration No. 3 



3 Ibs. corn meal 2 Ibs. cracked corn 



1 " meat scrap 1 " oats 



Ration No. 4 



9 Ibs. corn meal 2 Ibs. cracked corn 



5 " middlings 1 " wheat 



4 " bran 1 " oats 



2 " cottonseed or gluten meal 1 " barley 

 2 " meat scrap 



2 per cent bone meal 



(In Ohio at Ohio State University) 

 DRY MASH SCRATCH 



100 Ibs. corn meal 100 Ibs. cracked or shelled corn 



100 ' wheat middlings 100 " wheat or oats 



100 " bran Green food, grits and oyster 

 100 " oats shells 



100 " meat scraps or tankage 



Feed the grain mixture morning and afternoon in a deep 

 litter of straw. Feed sparingly in the morning, but give 

 the hens all they will eat in the afternoon. Feed the dry 

 mash in a hopper which is open at all times. Keep grit and 

 shell in open hoppers. Feed green food once a day. 

 (In Minnesota, Bulletin 119, Minnesota station, page 153} 

 A mash consisting of equal parts of finely ground corn, 

 oats, or shorts, mixed with about 10 per cent of cooked 

 meat, green cut bone, or beef scraps are mixed together dry. 

 Then thoroughly mix with about one third this bulk of 

 steeped clover leaves or finely cut clover, which has previ- 

 ously been scalded. Another mixture, to be only slightly 

 moistened with water, is the following: 



2 parts bran 1 part wheat shorts 



1 part ground corn 1 part ground oats 



1 part beef scraps 1-10 part charcoal 



(In North Carolina, Bulletin 211, North Carolina station, page 54.} 



In an experiment extending from December to May, dif- 

 ferent rations were fed to pens of 10 hens each. The largest 



