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Granulated Milk. A milk product available for poultry feed- 

 ing is known as granulated or powdered milk. It is whole milk 

 evaporated and crystallized. Its cost is very high, and in most 

 cases prohibitive. The only case where it can profitably be 

 used is in the feeding of chicks for the first few weeks of their 

 growth. 



Milk Albumen. Another milk by-product upon the market in 

 large quantities, and so well distributed that all poultrymen can 

 use it if they desire, is milk albumen. This is formed from skim 

 milk during the manufacture of milk sugar. It comes in various 

 sizes and grades, suitable both for use in dry mashes and in scratch- 

 ing rations. It varies considerably in composition according to 

 method of manufacture. 



Eggs. On most poultry plants there are infertile eggs which 

 are tested and taken out of incubators at the different stages of 

 incubation. These eggs, if it is not possible to dispose of them 

 legitimately for baking purposes, should be utilized in the feeding 

 of the birds. The best practice is to boil them hard and feed them 

 to baby chicks or growing stock, it being a good plan to cut them 

 up fine and mix with wheat bran. It is not recommended to feed 

 whole eggs with the shells on to adult birds, as it has a tendency 

 to teach them to eat eggs. It is also not a safe practice to feed 

 hard-boiled eggs to extremely young chicks. A better time to 

 start is when the chicks are about two weeks old. Eggs which 

 contain dead germs, if the hatch is tested on the fifth to the seventh 

 day, may be used equally well. In feeding hard-boiled eggs, the 

 practice should be to feed only what the birds will clean up soon. 

 If eggs are allowed to remain on the floor or the brooder or in the 

 feeding yard, they will sour and produce an unsanitary feed. 



< Legumes and grasses are usually fed to poultry in two different 

 forms: First, in the cured state in the form of hay; and second, 

 in the form of green succulence. In the dry condition they are 

 usually cut fine and mixed in the dry mash to increase bulkiness. 

 Alfalfa, clover, and certain mixed grasses are generally used for 

 this purpose. There are on the market short-cut clover and alfalfa 

 hay and also clover and alfalfa meal. . Where alfalfa or clover can- 

 not be raised on the farm, it is profitable to include one of these 

 in the short-cut form in the dry mash for the laying birds during 

 the winter. 



Alfalfa hay, both' in the short-cut and meal forms, offers ex- 

 ceedingly good opportunity for the use of adulterants; for this 

 reason the short-cut form is most desired, as the percentage of 



