72 FEEDING OF FOWLS 



Mix the beef scraps with the flour. After this has been 

 thoroughly done mix them into the other meals. Put the 

 dry mash in a self-feeding hopper, and keep it before 

 the fowls constantly so that they can help themselves. 

 Feed the scratch grain in deep litter so that the hens 

 must scratch and dig for all they get; feed it twice a 

 day, morning and afternoon, giving for each hen about 



1 oz. of grain in the morning and 2 oz. in the afternoon. 

 The hens must have a plentiful supply of green food, all 

 they will eat of it; also grit, oyster shell, and plenty of 

 water. 



Another method of feeding is to give no grain at all 

 until after 2 o'clock in the afternoon, thus compelling 

 the hens to eat freely of the dry mash from daylight; at 



2 o'clock scatter in the litter 3 oz. of the grain mixture 

 for each hen. Where self-feeding grain hoppers are used 

 they can be locked at night so that no grain can be 

 worked out, thus forcing the hens to eat dry mash all 

 day until 2 o'clock, at which time the self-feeding grain 

 hoppers can be released so that the hens can feed them- 

 selves on grain from 2 o'clock until dark. The dry-mash 

 mixture is a 1 to 3.1 nutritive ratio; the scratch-grain 

 mixture is a 1 to 7.7 nutritive ratio. If the hens eat 

 as much of one as they do of the other during the 

 day they will have a ration the nutritive ratio of which 

 is 1 to 5.4. 



Other rations recommended by experiment stations 

 have been successfully used; the most prominent among 

 them being what is known as the Maine ration. In this 

 method, cracked corn is fed in the litter early in the 

 morning. About noon a grain ration composed of equal 

 parts of wheat and oats is fed at the rate of 2 qt. to each 

 50 hens. The dry mash, which is kept constantly before 

 the hens in hoppers, is composed of wheat bran, 50 lb.; 

 corn meal, 25 lb. ; gluten meal, 25 lb.; meat scraps, 25 lb.; 

 linseed meal, 12 lb. ; low-grade flour, 25 lb. The meat 

 scraps should always be mixed into the flour, when flour 

 is used; this is done to coat the meat scraps and to 

 separate them for feeding. A plentiful supply of green 



