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beef scraps, well-mixed, makes an excellent lajnng 

 mash. If we prefer we can add the ground oats, 

 fifty pounds, and leave them out of the scratch 

 grain. 



Beef scrap varies greatly in its protein values, 

 and as protein is what we are after in bujmig scrap, 

 it is necessary to find out just how much we are 

 getting. Some scrap carries twenty, or twenty- 

 five per cent, protein, along with bits of wood, 

 sacking, and other foreign matter. Other brands 

 run as high as seventy per cent, protein, being 

 composed of clear dry meat. Frequently the price 

 of one is almost as great as thp other, in small 

 lots. If we secure scrap having a protein content 

 higher than fifty per cent., we can reduce the 

 quantity in the mash mixture . Thirty-five pounds 

 of scrap showing sixty per cent, protein would be 

 enough to mix with two hundred pounds of bran, 

 meal, and middlings. If in doubt about it, write 

 your State experiment station. They will tell you 

 just where to buy. 



Feeding Dry Mash. — ^The use of dry mash in 



feeding poultry has greatly increased during the 



past generation, and it is important. Records 



show that by the use of dry mash alone good results 



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