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make up the proper amount for each yard of birds. 

 When the mash is checked out at the end of the week and 

 the pen-quantity of grain is ascertained, it is noted on a 

 card tacked to the wall and the pails are filled each day 

 according to that record. 



The grain used is varied according to the market prices 

 of different kinds. We try always to feed some wheat 

 and some yellow corn and we avoid the use of seed bar- 

 ley (with the hulls on it), when we can do so without 

 running the grain cost too high. Wheat and corn are the 

 standard of price with us and we value other grains ac- 

 cording to their supposed feeding value as compared with 

 these. For instance, if seed barley is more than 80% of 

 the cost of wheat and the wheat can be had, we buy the 

 wheat; if the sorghums — milo maize, egyptian corn, 

 kaffir corn, etc. — are more than 80% of the price of yellow 

 corn, we buy and use the yellow corn. But we try at all 

 times to have at least 3 grains in the mixture. 



At the present time we are mixing 400 pounds of 

 wheat, 100 pounds of yellow corn and 130 pounds of 

 egyptian corn. Until the barley market was allowed to 

 run wild — at the time this is written barley is quoted us 

 in large quantities at $3.50 per hundred and we are buy- 

 ing a good grade of wheat for $3.60 — until this occurred 

 we used 110 pounds of re-cleaned seed barley in the mix- 

 ture. We also had milo maize in the mixture — 130 

 pounds of it. It is now quoted at but a few cents below 

 yellow corn, so we abandoned it. 



In less troublous days we fed a straight mixture of 2 

 parts of wheat and 1 part of yellow corn ; and if a reason- 

 able price level is ever established again we would return 

 to that standard mixture. 



