Feeding 101 



change, because the change you make is very liable to prove 

 disastrous. 



If you have been using any of these rations, or any ration, 

 and do not thoroughly understand how greatly grains vary 

 you may give the credit for your success entirely to luck, 

 there has been no science to it. If you do not know what 

 kind of corn or bran to get; if you do not know shorts from 

 fine ground bran, or if you do not know what a good grade 

 of middlings are; if you cannot tell middlings from flour 

 middlings or middlings that are three-fourths shorts and 

 you are getting good results you can consider yourself very 

 lucky. But as sure as you remain in the poultry business 

 without learning these things so that you cannot be fooled 

 you are always in danger of landing on the rock of failure. 



Middlings No. 1 that are not flour middlings, or shorts, 

 from either Bluestem or Turkey Red wheats have give me 

 very good results. 



You will notice that the more bran you feed to a hen or 

 chick the greater the craving they have for corn, and if you 

 feed two or three parts of bran to one of other ingredients 

 they will eat nothing but corn if they can get it. 



Corn grits, which are the best grade of cracked corn, 

 should always lie fed to chicks as a grain. 



Ration No. 10, especially where a little flour is fed with it, 

 is much more fattening than Ration No. 9, although there 

 is less corn used. It is rations similar to this that causes 

 flocks of hens to become very fat and they are liable to be 

 classed as beef-type hens when the food is entirely the 

 cause of this. 



Chicks grow very fast on Ration No. 14 if the grains are 

 right, but you should use coarse bran, Turkey Red preferred, 

 and middlings, either Turkey Red or Bluestem, that are not 

 shorts or flour middlings, and good corn. 



