RATIONS AND METHODS OF FEEDING 229 



scrap or animal meal added, except when green cut bone is given as a separate 

 feed ; just before dark, all the whole corn the birds will eat. 



The two rations above used, each in its season, make a good " system " for 

 the year. The yards in this case give fair foraging conditions. The winters 

 are long and hard. With sufficiency of litter the labor may be reduced by 

 bringing all feeding but the mangels and clover into the latter part of the 

 afternoon, giving all the wheat at the same time as the whole corn in winter, 

 and all the grain at one feeding in summer. 



West Virginia University Agricultural Experiment Station 



Ration 



21. For layitig heiis?- Dry mash : Parts by 



weight 

 Corn meal . . ... 3J 



Bran ... • 5l 



Middlings . .... • ■ 3 



Oil meal . ..... . i 



Beef scrap ... . 2j 



Fed in hoppers in constant supply. Grain, whole corn and wheat, in ap- 

 proximately equal parts. 



This ration was used in an experiment in feeding six hundred laying hens 

 (Leghorns) which returned a net profit of almost exactly one dollar per hen 

 ($602.28), on a rather low average egg production (113). The hens had free 

 range except in bad weather, and for green food had also ensilage, of which 

 they consumed about three fourths of a ton. 



Kansas Agricultural College Experiment Station Rations 



22. For yoimg chickens. Dry mash : Parts by 



weight 

 Corn meal . . . ..... 2 



Shorts ....... 2 



Bran ... .... . " 



Beef scrap ....... . ■' 



Charcoal .... . \ 



Grain mixture : Parts by 



weight 

 Corn chop (sifted) . .... ... .2 



Cracked Kafir corn . .... 2 



Cracked wheat ... ... . .... 2 



Millet . . I 



1 Taken from Bulletin iij of the West Virginia Experiment Station. The de- 

 scription of the method of feeding in the bulletin does not give the proportions 

 of articles used, but gives the total weights of each consumed, from which the 

 proportions work out approximately as I give them, a few minor items which do 

 not materially affect results being disregarded. 



