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Blue K-ibbon scraps formerly tested over 80 per cent of protein. 

 One sample collected recently tested about 65 per cent and bore a 

 60 per cent guarantee. It seems probable that these goods do not 

 have the same composition as when first placed on the market. 



Rava Meat Meal deserves special mention in that it is practically 

 pure, dried lean meat. 



Meat a7id Bone Meals are preferred by some poultrymen. They 

 contain considerably more bone than meat scrap, and sell at a lower 

 figure. The samples reported practically maintained their guaran- 

 tee, but showed a noticeable variation in chemical composition. 



Many of the poultry mashes offered are mixed 

 Poultry Mashes locally, and are not generally distributed. They 

 and Meals. sold at an average figure of about $2.00 per 



Pages 33-34. hundred. It is believed that fully as satisfac- 

 tory mixtures can be prepared at home at a 

 saving of twenty cents or more per hundred pounds. Following are 

 several sample mashes which, in the writer's estimation, will prove 

 equally as satisfactory as the commercial mixtures. 



FOR MATURE BIRDS. 

 I. II. 



20 lbs. wheat bran, 50 lbs. wheat bran, 



40 lbs. corn meal, 100 lbs. corn meal 



10 lbs. fine middlings, 75 lbs. wheat middlings, 



10 lbs. linseed meal, 75 lbs. cut clover or alfalfa. 



ID lbs. gluten feed, 



10 lbs. meat scraps. 



Cost per hundred, $1.65. Cost per hundred, $1.53. 



FOR YOUNG CHICKS. 



60 lbs. corn meal, 10 lbs. linseed meal, 



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



10 lbs. fiour middlings. 



Cost per hundred, $1.65. 



Eighteen samples of chick feed were collected, 



Chick and Scratch- most of which were free from an excessive 



ing Grains. amount of weed seed and grit. In a number of 



Pages 34-36. instances it is believed that the mixture would 



have been improved were less millet present. 



Star Chick Feed contained grit and a considerable amount of weed 



seed. Wyandotte Chick Feed contained grit. In both instances 



the buyer was paying grain prices for crushed stone. Grit was not 



