POULTRY FEEDS AND FEEDING 



meat scraps and green feed or grass secured on range. 

 There are two kinds of corn used in feeding poultry, 

 dent and flint. Flint corn is much harder than dent corn 

 and the starch is more bonelike and flinty. This kind of 

 corn is especially preferred for feeding pigeons, but both 

 flint and dent corn are fed extensively to poultry. Corn 

 on the cob is frequently fed to hens on general farms, but 

 hens are not able to eat corn on the cob freely and it gives 

 no opportunity to use the grain in the litter as a scratch 

 feed. Feeding corn on the cob to fowls is not advised, 

 as it undoubtedly pays to have the corn shelled. 



It takes about 70 pounds of the average quality well 

 dried dent corn on the cob to make a bushel (56 pounds 

 of .shelled corn). Flint corn has a larger proportion of 

 cob to corn than has dent corn. Freshly husked corn 

 contains a considerable per cent of water and in the early 

 fall 75 to 80 pounds of dent corn on the cob are considered 

 equal to a bushel of shelled corn. Shelled corn does not 

 keep well in bulk, especially in the summer, and is usually 

 kept as long as possible on the cob. Old shelled corn 

 contains about 12 per cent water, and corn containing 

 over 20 per cent water will not keep well in storage in 

 large quantities. Soft corn is the result of corn being 

 frosted before it is matured, and such corn will not keep 

 well. If used for poultry it should be carefully watched 

 to see that decomposition has not begun and that it is 

 neither moldy nor musty. 



Corn meal correctly refers to the ground whole corn 

 grain, but this term is also often applied commercially to 



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