DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE GEORGIA. 



FOOD VALUES OF DIFFEEENT MATERIALS. 



The following table is copied from " Wright's Practical Poultry Keeper." 



Commenting on this table Mr. -Wright says: "To show the 

 practical use of this table, \t may be observed that whilst "mid- 

 dlings," from its flesh-forming material, is one of the best summer 

 ingredients, in winter it may be advantageous to change it for a 

 portion of Indian meal. It is, however, necessary to avoid giving 

 too great a proportion of maize, either as meal or corn, as the effect 

 will be a useless and prejudicial fattening from the large quantity 

 of oil it contains ; it is best mixed with barley or bean-meal, .and is 

 then a most economical and useful food. Potatoes, also, from the 

 large proportion of starch contained in them, are not good un- 

 mixed as a regular diet for poultry ; but mixed with bran or meal 

 will be found most conducive to condition and laying. 



"In mixing soft food, there is one general rule always to be ob- 

 eerved ; it must be mixed rather dry, so that it will break if thrown 

 upon the ground. There should never be enough water to cause 

 the food to glisten in the light, or to make a sticky porridgy mass, 

 which clings around the beaks of the fowls and gives them infinite 

 annoyance, besides often causing diarrhoea. "If the weather be 



