FEEDING POULTRY 353 
canneries located there. Cottonseed meal is used more extensively 
in the South than in the North and West because the South is a 
cotton-growing region. 
EXAMPLES OF POULTRY RATIONS 
The rations that follow are simply given as examples of well- 
constructed rations. They are given in detail to concretely point 
out the way in which rations for different purposes should be made 
up and fed. 
Grain Mash 
75 pounds whole wheat, 25 pounds bran, 
50 pounds whole or rolled barley, 25 pounds shorts, ' 
25 pounds cracked corn. 25 pounds ground barley, 
15 pounds commercial fish scrap, 
10 pounds linseed meal, 
2$ pounds fine charcoal, 
.5 pound fine dairy salt, 
Oats could be substituted for the barley in the above grain 
mixture, and whole Egyptian corn, milo or other grain-sorghums for 
Indian corn. Ground oats could be used in place of ground barley, 
and soybean meal could substitute for linseed meal in the mash. If 
skim milk or buttermilk were available, it could be kept before the 
fowls in drinking vessels and no other animal protein feed need be 
fed. Fresh, finely-ground, green bone from the butcher shop could 
be used in place of other animal feed, and fed at the rate of about 
one-half ounce per hen per day. It could be fed separately at noon 
if the dry mash were used, or mixed in the wet mash. Milk could 
be used -to mix a wet mash in addition to feeding it alone or, if 
only a limited amount of milk is available, it could be used to 
moisten the wet mash, and the amount of other animal feed reduced. 
Green feed should be plentifully supplied. Grit and oyster 
shell should be kept before the fowls in self-feeding hoppers at all 
times (Fig. 101). 
The mixed grain is fed lightly in a deep litter (Fig. 104) in the 
morning and more freely at night so that the fowls will get all they 
want before going to roost. The mash, if fed as a dry mash, should 
be kept constantly in open hoppers before such active fowls as 
Leghorns. For heavier fowls which have a greater tendency to eat 
too much mash and to become over-fat, it may be necessary to keep 
the hoppers closed in the morning and not open them till noon. 
Approximately one pint of grain to ten hens should be fed in the 
morning and one and one-half pints at night. 
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