270 FEEDING FARM ANIMALS 



they cost a good deal more than the green products, 

 and are not real substitutes. For winter feeding, 

 especially for high-priced eggs, they can be intro- 

 duced into the ration, provided their cost is not too 

 great. Where grains and meals are extensively used 

 in winter, even though the eggs bring high prices, 

 the cost of production may not meet the labor items, 

 and hence may overbalance all the profit. 



Meat or Animal Feed Important. Animal food 

 of some sort is believed to be necessary to maintain 

 fowls in vigorous health and productivity, whether 

 the aim be flesh or eggs. Probably no one thing has 

 done more to increase profits than feeding animal 

 food. Scarcity of eggs during the winter is largely 

 due to deficiency in this line. Chickens when at lib- 

 erty during the summer secure abundant animal 

 food in the form of bugs and worms. Something to 

 take the place of this food is necessary, especially 

 when the snow is on the ground. Fresh meat scrap 

 from the butcher shop is an excellent egg maker. 



On many farms bone cutters are run by hand O 1 r 

 power, depending on the number of chickens kept., 

 and fresh meat and bone are given the poultry at 

 regular intervals. Bone is eaten just as greedily as 

 the scraps of meat. The call for mineral matter is 

 met to some extent in the bone supply. Doubtless 

 the most convenient form in which to feed animal 

 food is beef scrap or meat scrap, a boiled and dried 

 by-product of the large packing houses. As it 

 reaches the poultryman it contains meat and bone in 

 varying proportions, which should analyze 50 to 60 

 per cent protein. It also varies in quality, but 



