Poultry Keeping 



should be fed in six inches of straw. The mash should 

 be about seventy-five per cent bran and ground grain, 

 ten per cent oil meal, and fifteen per cent dried meat 

 scrap. One pound of fine salt should be well stirred 

 into two hundred pounds of mash. Large amounts 

 of salt are poisonous if a hen eats a lump of salt it 

 will kill her. Cottonseed meal also is poisonous to chick- 

 ens if it constitutes more than five per cent of the whole 

 mash. Charcoal may be added at the rate of one 

 pound to forty pounds of mash. The mash may be kef t 

 in a hopper before the chickens all .the time. For 

 convenience, and to keep the hens from eating too much, 

 the mash should be fed dry (Fig. 256). 



The particular kinds of grain and mill feed to use will A sample 

 depend somewhat on prices in different parts of the 

 country. One state experiment station recommends hens 

 the following : 



Grain ration. One tenth of a pound of whole 

 grain a day, to each 

 chicken. (The large 

 breeds need a little 

 more.) 



Mash. All that the 

 chickens will eat dry 

 of the following mix- 

 ture : bran, 50 Ib. ; 

 ground grain, 25 Ib. ; 

 oil meal, 10 Ib. ; meat 

 meal or fish meal, 

 15 Ib.; sifted salt, 

 I- Ib. ; charcoal, 2^ Ib. 



PEN *l 



BUTTERMILK 



PEN *3 

 BEEF SCRAP 



PEN *Z 



NO MILK OR 

 MEAT FOOD 



730 EGGS 

 COST SI8 



International Harvester Co. 



FIG. 253. It pays to supply laying hens with 

 feeds that contain a high percentage of protein. 

 Each basket of eggs represents the production 

 of a separate lot of 25 hens, during a period of 

 8 months, at the Ontario Agricultural College. 



