GUIDE FOR KEEPERS OF POULTRY 101 
following table showing what a hen should he fed in a 
year. The table, as will be seen, gives five formulas for 
a ration, the amount in each being calculated for one hen 
a year, or the quantity in each formula would make a 
ration for 365 hens for one day. By estimating the cost 
of the ingredients in any one ration the poultryman can 
determine very quickly what it would cost to keep a hen 
a year at the prices he is charged for feed: 
TABLE SHOWING KIND AND QUANTITY OF FEED FOR ONE HEN ONE 
YEAR OR 365 HENS ONE DAY. 
RATION. | No.1 | No.2 | No.3 | No.4 | No.6 
60 30 20 20 
60 cGh ne 10 20 
15 10 10 
| 10 10 10 
Middlings ies exh 5 3b 4 
Linseedmeals agesc ageat gas aeead gr eeretein rare aa ats A 5 
SkimmilkS, Otiescias ance acer tianeiiwnan wea 30 30 30 0 30 
COUPDONES, ORs wusicecege ouch. Bae ee. See. 12 12 12 12 12 
Beef SCraprssces. scueen agaiga. cv eqal ava casual ce aan 8 8 pF 38) 8 8 
Alfalfa or Clover, OF. .....0.5. 0 cece eee eee eee 15 15 1h 15 15 
AIG? sited cain cane SH RUSS, BEES oes 20 20 20 20 20 
The foregoing are suggested rations for one hen a year (or 365 
hens one day), with the estimated value of each, ration No. 1 
being rated as the poorest and No. 5 as the best. The choice of 
animal feed is left to the breeder in each case, 30 pounds of 
skimmilk, 12 pounds of cut bone and 8 pounds of beef scrap 
being estimated as of equal value. Likewise of green feed, 15 
pounds green alfalfa or clover being equal to 20 pounds of green 
kale. (Weights are in pounds.) 
In this table Prof. Dryden gives kale as a green feed. 
This would be available in the Coast States, where it 
flourishes, but in some of the states where it does not do 
well cabbage or rape might be used. As clover grows in 
almost any state and alfalfa in most of the western states 
