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CHICK BOOK 



FORMULAS FOR DRY MASHES 



We give below some of the best grain mixtures or dry 

 mashes which have been used and found satisfactory by 

 men of experience. These are to be fed in hoppers and the 

 fowls should also be given grain thrown in the litter to be 

 scratched for so as to induce exercise. 



Dr. Woods' Mash for Leghorns 



20 tbs. wheat bran 

 10 lbs. wheat middlings 

 10 lbs. corn meal 

 10 lbs. gluten feed 

 20 lbs. best cut clover 

 5 lbs. old process linseed meal 

 10 lbs. good beef scrap. 



The A. F. Hunter Dry Mash for Kocks and Wyandottes 



200 lbs. wheat bran 

 100 lbs. corn meal 

 100 lbs. wheat middlings 

 100 lbs. beef scrap 

 100 lbs. gluten meal. 



Halbach Mash for White Kocks 



50% corn meal 

 20% bran 

 20% middlings 

 10^% beef scrap. 



FRONT SIDE SECTION VIEW 



Diagram of Mr. H. Heidenhain's food hopper made from five gallon oil can. 



Another Mash for American Varieties 



15 lbs. corn meal 

 20 lbs. wheat bran 

 20 lbs. wheat middlings 

 10 lbs. good beef scrap 

 20 lbs. best cut clover or alfalfa meal 

 5 lbs. oil jneal. 



Dr. Woods Dry Mash for Chicks 



Equal parts by measure of 

 Wheat bran 

 Corn meal 



Leaves sifted from cut clover 

 Fancy wheat middlings. 

 To this mixture, one-half pound fine ground best quality 

 beef scrap. Be sure the scrap is pure and sweet. Cheap, 

 poor scrap is dangerous and will cause bowel trouble. If 



not sure it is fresh, omit it and feed two or three times a. 

 week, a little fresh beef scraped from bone. Keep the mash, 

 in front of them at all times and feed chick feed in litter. 

 Also keep charcoal, grit and fresh water before them. 

 Dry Mash for Chicks Eight Weeks Old 



200 lbs. coarse wheat bran 



100 lbs. fancy wheat middlings 



200 lbs. best dry cut clover 



100 lbs. yellow gluten feed 



100 lbs. yellow corn meal 

 50 lbs. linseed meal (old process) 



100 lbs. best fine-ground beef scrap. 

 Dump all of above on clean board floor and thoroughly 

 mix with scoop shovel. Keep in sacks or bins and feed in 

 food hopper to growing stock or laying hens. 



CORNELL FEEDING RATIONS AS GIVEN 

 BY PROF. RICE 



Grain Mixture for Laying Hens and Growing Pullets 



100 lbs. oats 

 200 lbs. corn 

 200 lbs. wheat. 



Fattening Mash 



30 lbs. beef scrap 

 100 lbs. corn meal 

 100 lbs. oatmeal 

 100 lbs. ground buckwheat. 



Dry Mash Mixture for Laying Hens and Growing Pullets 



25 lbs. oil meal 

 125 lbs. beef scrap 

 150 lbs. wheat middlings 

 150 lbs. corn meal 



75 lbs. bran. 



Grain Mixture for Chicks 



100 lbs. oatmeal 



200 lbs. cracked corn (fine) 



300 lbs. cracked wheat. 



Dry Mash Mixture for Chicks 



100 lbs. wheat middlings , 

 100 lbs. corn meal 

 100 lbs. beef scrap 

 200 lbs. bran. 



Prof. Rice claims that oyster shell is very essential for 

 laying hens. 



A PLAIN BALANCED FOOD 



MANY POULTRY KEEPERS, VETERANS AS WELL AS NOVICES 



WILL BE PLEASED TO READ "UNGLE IKE'S" PLAIN DIRECTIONS 



FOR PREPARING AND FEEDING BALANCED POULTRY RATION 



I. K. FELCH 



ALL statistics relating to grain are based on one hun- 

 dred pounds, the per cent of ash, protein, carbo- 

 hydrates and fat being computed on the one hun- 

 dred pounds of grain. 



Many hundreds of people who keep fowls do not under- 

 stand what this means. What they want first to know is 

 the proper kind of food to give the best result in egg pro- 

 duction. A generous egg production is a sure sign that the 

 fowls are in a most favorable and healthy condition. A 

 balanced ration is one that contains one and one-half to 

 two per cent of ash, which is the bone forming agent, twenty- 

 one per cent protein, which is the muscle growing and egg 

 producing agent, sixty per cent of carbohydrates and twenty 

 per cent of fat, these last two being the material on which 



