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No. 2 — 3 parts corn meal. 



2 parts low grade flour. 

 No. 3 — 5 parts corn meal. 



3 parts low grade flour. 

 1 part shorts. 



5 per cent tallow. 

 All are mixed with thick buttermilk, except No. 

 3, in which tallow takes its place. 



The Cornell fattening ration consists of : 

 30 pounds beef scrap. 

 100 pounds corn meal. 

 100 pounds oat flour. 

 100 pounds ground buckwheat. 

 This is mixed with sour milk. 

 At the Missouri Experiment Station feeding ex- 

 periments have shown that (1) whole grain does not 

 fatten chickens, (2) it is cheaper to feed the grain 

 finely ground, and (3) that the best grains can be 

 had by feeding birds finely ground feeds when con- 

 fined in crates. The following ration proved most 

 satisfactory : 



24 parts white bolted corn meal. 

 6 parts low grade flour. 

 1 part each of oatmeal, pea meal, buckwheat 

 middlings and wheat middlings. 

 The flesh of the birds fed on this ration was 

 creamy white in color, the fat distributed over the 

 body, and the entrails were encased with fat. 



At Purdue University the fattening ration con- 

 sists of: 



2 pounds corn meal. 

 1 pound shorts. 

 1 pound ground oats. 

 8 pounds buttermilk. 

 Professor Dryden of Oregon Agricultural College 

 recently said in regard to fattening rations : 



