THE FEEDS 347 



fiber, protein, and asli and more carbohydrate and fat than 

 bran. Very many markets do not distinguish between sliorts 

 and middlings. 



The average amounts of the nutrients found in IdO i)ounds 

 of wheat shorts are 10.5 pounds of water, 4.4 jiounds of ash, 

 17.4 pounds of crude protein, 62.8 pounds of carboliydrates, 

 of which 6 pounds are fiber, and 4.9 pounds are fat. The 

 proportions of these digestible for chickens have not been 

 determined. It contains less \'itamin than l)ran. 



7V(?i/i-(;f/f. — riiilips^ used common "digester" tankage in 

 comparison with commercial meat scrap in feeding Wliite 

 Leghorn pullets with excellent results. lie rci)laced the 

 meat scrap in the following ration with '■> ])ounds of tankage 

 and secured an cfpially good egg production. 



GUAIN. Masii. 



10 pounds of cfini 5 poiimls of l.ran 



10 pounds of whi'at 5 pounds of sIimiIs 



5 pounds of oats 4.. 5 pounds of nii^at srraj) 



In practice the precise amount of tankage which should 

 replace a giAen amount of meat scrap will depend ui)on the 

 protein content <if each. In the work quoted the i)rotein 

 content of neither was gi\en. It took aliout 5.4 pounds of 

 feed to produce a dozen eggs when tankage was fed. 



The aA'erage amounts of mitrients found in 1(10 pounds of 

 tankage varies, but is on the average 7.5 pounds of water, 

 19.7 pounds of ash, 51.7 pounds of crude protein, 7.2 pounds 

 of carbohydrates and 14.0 pound of fat. 



Sugar. — Hartwell and Kirkpatrick- found that the addition 

 of sugar at rates varying from 20 to 100 grams for each quart 

 of milk added to a mash made up of 5 parts corn meal, 1 

 part wheat bran, and -J part whole milk, and fed to Rhode 

 Island lied chicks weighing 1.1 lbs., for two and three weeks, 

 for the purpose of finishing them oft' as broilers, did not bring 

 increased gains, nor an increased palatability, as shown by 

 the amount of feed consumed. 



1 Purdu.' bulletin No. 227. 



' Rhode Island Bulletin No. 14.^. 



