POULTRY FEEDS AND FEEDING 



but can be used if no other green crop can be raised to 

 advantage. Corn is one of the best grains to raise but at 

 least a small crop of grain which produces straw is well to 

 consider producing in sections where oats or wheat can 

 be raised. The furnishing of the straw is an item involv- 

 ing considerable expense on a poultry farm. 



If sufficient land is available to raise all of the grain 

 for the hens it will take about 26 acres planted to corn, 

 wheat and oats to raise the amount of these kinds of feed 

 consumed by a thousand Leghorn hens, and about 35 

 acres to raise these crops for 1,000 general purpose fowls. 

 This does not allow for the feed used for growing chicks 

 to replace these laying hens nor does it allow for all of the 

 feed required to make up a hen's ration as the bran, 

 middlings and meat scrap will have to be purchased. 

 Where 25 to 35 acres of these grains are raised each year 

 it would be necessary to have available land of at least 

 twice this area to use in rotation of crops in the success- 

 ful raising of these grains. 



CARE OF THE YARDS AND RANGES 



Where fowls are kept more or less intensively it is very 

 essential to give careful attention to the yards in order to 

 keep the land fresh and incidentally to furnish some grow- 

 ing green feed. The care of the yards will depend con- 

 siderably on the plan and lay-out of the poultry farm, 

 and if double yards are available for each flock, one yard 

 can be kept in a growing crop while the other yard is be- 



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