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for domestic animals as well as for men. Here and there in this country is 

 found a feeder who uses rye with good results. Its rank, as determined by 

 chemical analysis, is between barley and corn. It is less fibrous than barley 

 a little more fattening. Rye is so cheap when obtainable that it is surely 

 worth while for those who could use it if satisfactory to give it a thorough 

 test. 



RYE BRAN is nearly identical in composition with wheat bran. A 

 mixture of equal parts of rye, corn and oats, has the same feeding value as 

 buckwheat. 



120. Buckwheat is very generally fed as a part of the whole grain 

 ration, wherever it can be bought at a price that admits of its use as poultry 

 food. In sections where little of it is grown it is rarely on sale except at seed 

 stores, and at a rather high price. It is more fattening than wheat or barley, 

 nearly as fibrous as oats ; not a good grain to feed heavily. 



BUCKWHEAT MIDDLINGS are, of all mill stuffs from grains,* the richest in 

 albuminous matter, therefore most valuable for balancing rations deficient in 

 protein. 



121. Sorghum Seed available in sorghum growing districts, contains 

 a little more heating, fattening matter than corn. Those who have used it say 

 it is a good poultry food good for egg production for hens on the farm. 



122. Chicken Corn (sorghum vulgare) has about the same nutritive 

 value as wheat, as much husk and fiber as whole oats. 



KAFFIR CORN, MILLO MAIZE, DURRA, EGYPTIAN CORN resemble chicken 

 corn in food properties. The names of these grains are, in popular usage, 

 rather indiscriminately applied. All make good poultry foods. They are 

 particularly valuable for poultry keepers in dry regions who grow their own 

 grains. 



123. Broom Corn Seed, hulled, makes a good food. (Tested in com- 

 parison with wheat, it gave equally good results). When not hulled fowls do 

 not eat it freely enough to make it useful as a staple of diet. 



124. Millet Seed has relatively more flesh forming substance than any 

 of the larger grains more, even, than oat meal. It is often recommended 

 for young chicks, but has too much fiber, and is too apt to cause bowel troubles, 

 to be used as freely as is generally suggested. The best way to feed it to 

 chicks is to scatter it where well fed chicks can get it, if they hunt or scratch 

 for it, in addition to their regular meals. To old fowls it is generally given 

 as a light meal, in litter, to compel exercise. The grains are so small that 

 fowls cannot eat dry millet fast enough to make a good meal of it. When it is 



* NOTE. Buckwheat is not a grain, though always classed among grain foods. 



