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marketing them as broilers, and this should be done right in 

 the brooder pens where they were reared. The object is to 

 make them a little plumper and heavier in a short time, and 

 the following ration is excellent for this purpose. It should be 

 mixed with skim milk and fed in a crumbly state, not sloppy. 



Fig. 148. — Broilers being finished on a commercial scale. The birds are confined to 

 these small yards and fed the rations here re comTn ended. 



Broiler Mash 



Kind of Feed Amount 



Com meal 26 pounds 



Ground oats 25 pounds 



Beef scrap 15 pounds 



Granulated bone 10 pounds 



Wheat middlings 25 pounds 



Total 100 pounds 



Moisten with skim milk and feed in a trough. Be sure 

 the feeding troughs are kept clean, and that the mash is 



