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a large amount of bowel-trouble. Many times a hen will 

 not lay on a strictly wheat ration of this kind when she has 

 poor digestion, but by adding a little corn they sometimes 

 begin. Ten parts of mash to one of meat is about right if 

 a limited amount of grain is used. Hens will lay about the 

 same as they do on ration No. S, but the amount will vary 

 on all these rations because some people will balance them 

 more correctly than others and because of the difference in 

 grains, in the condition of flocks and various outside condi- 

 tions. 



EATION NO. 7 

 1 part bran, 

 1 part shorts, 

 1 part middlings, 



1 part whole yellow corn, ground fine, 

 10% beef-scrap, ground fine, 

 Wheat or wheat and corn for grain; green feed. 



Faults and Good Qualities of Ration No. 7. — Where bran 

 and middlings are used and it is desirable to use mostly 

 wheat this ration is the best given. It is hard to get a better 

 wheat ration than this and I believe it is used by more 

 poultrymen than any other ration. 



Some poultrymen use a ration of 1 part of bran, 2 parts 

 of shorts and 1 part of corn-meal. Many poultrymen vary 

 ration No. 7 one way or the other but no better combination 

 on these grains can be made than the one given in this 

 ration. 



The reason there are so many variations made is due to 

 the variations in grains and conditions of hens. 



If 10% to 12% of bone meal is used in the mash con- 

 tinually it will often prevent the hens from any tendency 

 there may be to over eat. 



