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mangels or clover hay ; about 3 :30 p. m., wet mash 

 of boiled vegetables, waste bread and occasionally 

 kitchen scraps thickened with the same meals used in 

 the dry mash, about 10 per cent beef scrap or ani- 

 mal meal added, except when green cut bone is given 

 as a separate feed; just before dark all the whole 

 corn the birds will eat. 



West Virginia Experiment Station. — Dry 

 mash: 



Corn meal SVz parts by weight 



Bran 5V2 parts by weight 



Middlings 3 parts by weight 



Oil meal 1 part by weight 



Beef scrap 2^ parts by weight 



Grain, whole corn and wheat in equal parts. 

 Kansas Experiment Station. — Dry mash : 



Shorts (middlings) 6 parts by weight 



Bran 3 parts by weight 



Corn meal 6 parts by weight 



Beef scrap 5 parts by weight 



Alfalfa meal 1 part by weight 



Grain mixture, 2 parts wheat, 2 parts corn, 1 part 

 oats. 



Used in the proportions by weight of 21 pounds 

 of mash to 25 pounds of grain, the ration has a nutri- 

 tive ratio of 1 :4, a very forcing ration. 

 Cornell Laying Ration. — Grain mixture : 

 Winter — 60 pounds corn, 60 pounds wheat, 30 

 pounds oats, 30 pounds buckwheat. 



Summer — 60 pounds wheat, 60 pounds corn, 30 

 pounds oats. 



Dry mash, summer and winter : 



60 pounds corn meal, 60 pounds wheat middlings, 



30 pounds wheat bran, 10 pounds alfalfa meal, 10 



pounds oil meal, 50 pounds beef scrap, 1 pound salt. 



California Experiment Station. — In Bulletin 



