FOODS AND FEEDING 
ANIMAL FOODS AND MILK 
Beef Scraps..........1:0.8 | Fresh-cut Bone.......121.2 
Dried Blood ......... Il Whole Milk ......... 1:4 
Animal Meal ........1:0.5 | Skim- and Butter-Milk, .1:2 
The beginner should bear prominently in mind 
that fowls require a variety of foods as well as 
Variety in properly proportioned rations in 
Feeding order to do well. Oats are the 
best balanced grain used for poultry feed, yet it 
would be the height of folly to make oats an ex- 
clusive diet day after day. Corn, wheat and oats 
are the three staple grain feeds for poultry, and 
many breeders obtain very excellent results by feed- 
ing equal parts of these three grains. This surely 
is a simple ration, and, if green stuff is fed in con- 
nection with the grain, the whole “ balances ” 
fairly well, although for summer feeding, or in the 
case of an Asiatic breed, the ration is a little 
“‘ wide,” and I believe in such cases it would usually 
be best to reduce the amount of corn used. 
At least three different grains should make up 
the fowls’ ration, and a combination allowing the 
use of more than this is very desirable, unless in the 
summer time when the fowls are enjoying free 
range. When combined and mixed, the grains 
should give the average ratio desired, according to 
the suggestion above. A good combination is 
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