DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE GEORGIA. 



FOOD YALUES OF DIFFERENT MATERIALS. 



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

 Keeper." 



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

 tical use of this table, it may be observed that whilst ' middlings,' 

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

 dients, 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 unmixed 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- 

 served, 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 tojglisten 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 



