PRACTICAL FEEDING OF POULTRY 



suits of any of the high vegetable protein feeds, using an 

 equal amount of cotton seed meal and of meat scrap in 

 the mash. The other high protein feeds which gave 

 good results, named in their relative order of value were ; 

 peanut meal and soy bean meal, while velvet bean meal 

 did not prove very satisfactory. Fairly good results were 

 obtained in using these high vegetable protein feeds where 

 mashes containing 10 per cent of the high vegetable 

 protein feed and 15 per cent of meat scrap were fed. An- 

 other successful ration of several vegetable protein feeds 

 mixed with a little dried buttermilk is also given in the 

 Appendix. 



Not more than one-tenth of the mash should be com- 

 posed of cotton seed meal as the use of a larger proportion 

 of cotton seed meal will cut down the egg yield materially 

 and may affect the quality of the eggs, producing spots 

 and blotches on the yolks which make them unattractive 

 and unmarketable. Other of the vegetable protein feeds 

 which can be used with success for poultry are gluten and 

 linseed meal. 



COMMERCIAL SCRATCH MIXTURES AND MASHES 



Commercial scratch mixtures and mashes have their 

 place in poultry feeding, especially for the person keeping 

 only a small flock as discussed under the subject of feed- 

 ing a backyard flock on page 142. Very good grades of 

 commercial feeds are available but should be carefully 

 selected from a study of their analysis, especially their 



