370 BEGINNINGS IN ANIMAL HUSBANDRY 



is a feed trough with slatted front. In it is kept the following 

 supply of dry meals thoroughly mixed together: 



200 Ibs. clean wheat bran 



100 Ibs. corn meal 



100 Ibs. middlings 



100 Ibs. gluten meal or brewer's grains 



100 Ibs. linseed meal 



100 Ibs. beef scrap 



(In Ohio, at Ohio State University.} 



FOR GRAIN DRY MASH 



15 Ibs. cracked corn 4 Ibs. corn meal 



10 Ibs. wheat 6 Ibs. wheat middlings 



5 Ibs. heavy oats 4 Ibk bran 



Green food, grits and oyster 4 Ibs. meat scraps 

 shells 1 Ib. linseed oil meal 



1 Ib. alfalfa meal 

 }- Ib. granulated charcoal 

 Tablespoonful salt 



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 pre- 

 viously 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 

 Mo part charcoal 



