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any complete ration should furnish grain, in the whole or ground 

 state, animal food, green food and grit. Following are several sam- 

 ple mashes which, in the writer's estimation, will prove equally as 

 satisfactory as the commercial mixtures : 



FOR MATURE BIRDS. 



FOR YOUNG CHICKS. 



60 lbs. corn meal, 10 ll)s. linseed meal, 



10 " wheat bran, 10 " beef scrap (fine). 



10 " flour middlings, 



Cost per hundred, ^1.65. 



But one sample of chick grain was collected. It 

 Chick and maintained its guarantee, and contained, in addi- 

 Scratching tion to corn, Kaffir corn, charcoal and millet, an 

 Grains. appreciable amount of weed seed. 



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poultryman is running an extensive plant and can 

 aflord to have special machinery for reducing grains to the proper 

 mechanical condition, it will probably be necessary to rely upon some 

 of the prepared grain mixtures until the chick becomes large enough 

 to take whole grain. In selecting such a mixture care should be 

 taken to avoid an excessive amount of weed seed, millet seed and 

 grit. Grit can be furnished at a much lower cost in the form of 

 finely crushed oyster shell, gravel or coarse sand than at grain prices. 

 The eleven samples of scratch grains reported practically main- 

 tained their guarantees. Scratch grains usually contain corn and 

 wheat, with varying quantities of other cereal grains, and occasionally 

 sunflower seed, rice and meat scrap. Weed seed is often present in 

 objectionable amounts. 



