PRAIRIE FARMER'S POULTRY BOOK 



Feeds 



Table I. Composition of Poultry Feeds 



Crude Nutrient 

 Water Ash Protein Fider Carbohydrate Fat 



Percent Percent Percent Percent Percent Percent 



Whole grains: 



Corn 10.9 



Kafir Corn 12.8 



Barley 10.9 



Oats 11.0 



Wheat 10.3 



Buckwheat 12.6 



Sunflower seed , . 8.6 



Soy bean 8.7 



Ground grains: 



Corn meal 15.0 



Barley meal 11.9 



Soy-bean meal 10.2 



Gluten meal 8.6 



Gluten feed 8.1 



Wheat bran 11.9 



Wheat middlings 12.1 



O. P. Linseed meal 9.2 



Foods of animal origin: 



Meat scrap 1 .^ 



Meat meal 6.3 



Blood meal : 10.6 



Tankage 10.0 



Fish scrap 7.5 



Whole milk 87.2 



Skim milk " 50.6 



Buttermilk 90.1 



Granulated milk 28.5 



Green feeds: 



Green alfalfa 80.0 



Alfalfa meal 11.9 



Green clover 70.8 



Clover meal 10.0 



Potatoes 78.9 



Mangel beets 90.9 



Dry beet pulp 8.0 



Onions 87.6 



Turnips 90.5 



Carrots 88.6 



Cabbage 90.5 



Lettuce 95.5 



Swiss chard 87.8 



The above percentages are in the main suppHed by the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture. As food materials vary in 

 composition, owing to conditions over which the analyst has 

 no control, no two analyses of the same substance will be 

 exactly the same. Those given above are sufficiently accurate 

 for all practical purposes. 



Using the table given, the poultry keeper can compound 

 his own rations. Knowing the object he wishes to attain, 

 whether to grow the chick or provide for the laying hen or to 

 fatten for market and knowing the nutritive ratio required, he 

 can combine a ration from the feeds at hand that will give as 

 good results as by the purchase of more expensive feeds. 



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