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them have no scales suitable for weig'hing grain, and are, 

 therefore, obliged to measure out the diiferent ingi-edients, and 

 guess at the amounts corresponding* to the weights desired. 

 Especially is this true of the smaller poultry keepers. The 

 reasons, however, why we base the amounts upon weight rather 

 than measure in compounding rations are that all feeds, as a 

 rule, are bought by weight, and also that measuring cannot 

 he done accurately enough for scientific work. The following 

 table is intended to aid those who find it convenient to com- 

 ]iound their feeds by measure : — 



Table 11. — Equivalents of Weights and Measures. 



Name of Feed. 



Quart. 



Pound. 



Pound. 



Quart . 



Alfalfa meal, 

 Corn, whole, 

 Corn meal, 

 Gluten feed. 

 Linseed meal, . 

 Oats, whole, 

 Oats, ground, . 

 Wheat, 

 Wheat bran. 

 Wheat middlings, 



1.0 

 1.7 

 1.5 

 1.3 

 1.1 

 1.0 



.7 

 1.9 



.5 

 1.2 



1.0 

 .6 



.7 



.8 



.9 



1.0 



1.4 



.5 



2.0 



This chart, showing the equivalents of weights and meas- 

 ures of our most common poultry feeds, was prepared by Dr. 

 Lindsey, with the exception of a very few items. The second 

 column, giving the equivalents of 1 pound in terms of quarts, 

 is the column that is of especial interest to the poultrymen 

 who wish to do their mixing by measure. It, of course, makes 

 no difference whether you use a quart measure, a peck meas- 

 ure, a bushel measure or a box, providing you use the same 

 in measuring all of the ingredients. The table shows that if 

 you wish, for example, to make a mixture containing equal 

 parts by weight of corn meal, gluten feed, ground oats, wheat 

 bran and wheat middlings, you will take about -y^ quart of 

 corn meal, ^ quart or a little more of gluten feed, nearly 11/2 

 quarts of ground oats, 2 quarts of wheat bran and % quart 



