RICE, PEAS, AND BEANS 



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poultry, it is used in very limited quantities. Even in the South, 

 where it is grown, rice is not generally used, except as a chick 

 feed, and then only in small quantities. The commercial chick 

 feeds contain a small percentage of broken rice. Its value, how- 

 ever, is questioned by most breeders. Chicks do not seem to 

 care for it, and for this reason it is not generally recommended, 

 Boiled rice is sometimes fed to chicks as a wet mash, and the water 



.{Courtesy U. S. Dep't Agriculture) 

 Fig. 133. — Feeding time in a fattening station. 



which is drained off the rice is cooled and given as drinking water. 

 As a commercial proposition this is too troublesome. 



Field peas, cowpeas and Soy beans are three nitrogenous 

 seeds which may be used to vary the ration, though it is not ad- 

 visable to feed them to poultry unless they can be bought at a 

 reasonable price. Usually they are scarce and correspondingly 

 high in price. 



Kafir com, milo maize, sorghum seeds and broom com seeds 

 may be added to the scratch grain ration to give variety. They 

 can be made to take the place of corn, because they are pretty 



