A GUIDE FOR KEEPERS OF POULTRY 167 
feed vegetable feed of some kind. If only grains, by- 
products and meat feeds are used they do not digest so 
quickly nor so thoroughly as when fed something coarser 
and bulkier. The hen resembles the cow in this, as she 
must have bulk as well as nutritive value in her feed to 
put it to the best use. 
There also seems to be something which escapes the 
chemist in green feed that adds to its value, as deter- 
mined by chemical analysis. Among the most available 
vegetable feeds are mangels or other kinds of beets, tur- 
BY-PRODUCTS USED IN FEEDING POULTRY. DIGESTIBLE CONTENT IN 100 
POUNDS. (Computations from Cornell University College of Agriculture.) 
aDYY,,, |inineral | Protemn. [Carboy] Nyye” | Mamo-dal 
| mutter, ratio. { 
Old-process oil meal....| 91 | 5.3 | 20.3 405 Isl | .096e. 
Gluten meal... .... .... 9 8 | 23 iS 65.6 TiS JiTe. 
Buckwheat middlings..| 87 ge ge ay 45 121 .026e. 
Gluten feed..... .....- 92 Lk 19.4 63.3 143.3 
Wheat middlings.. ..... ss or ae) aS | 60.7 LA7 .047¢. 
Wheat bran........ -... ‘88 58) ul 5.8 1:3.8 043e. 
Alfalfa meal............. gz GA | lL 1 42.3 1:3.8 .043¢. 
Beef scraps...........++ 89.3 eet ub 2 | 33.1 1:0.5 1750. 
Animal meal. .... ....-. 92.7 4.9 | a | BB 1:0.7 
Green cut bone .... -- 65 Ld, 18 eet) ie. 
Skimmilk .......... 68a is te a8 Le 
nips, cabbages, potatoes, green grass, clover or alfalfa 
cut fine, dandelion tops, lettuce. Swiss chard, dwarf Es- 
sex rape, collards, parsley, and all similar tender green 
stuff. Some-of these are procurable only in summer, 
when they are fed to fowls kept in confinement. The 
others are fed in winter, either in their natural state or 
