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hydrates, of which 8.1 pounds are fiber, and 9.1 pounds are 

 fat. The amounts of these digestible for chickens are not 

 known. 



Cut Clover. — Young clover hay cut fine is a valuable feed 

 for poultry, though it is not so generally used as alfalfa meal. 

 Bartlett' found that equal parts of early, fine-cut clover and 

 corn meal made a more digestible feed than wheat bran. 

 Steamed cut clover, like steamed cut alfalfa, makes a good 

 temporary substitute for succulence, but it should be recog- 

 nized that such a substitute is only temporary. 



The amounts of digestible nutrients found in 100 pounds of 

 early cut clover hay based on digestion experiments with 

 chickens are 8.68 pounds of protein, 2.77 pounds of fat, and 

 31.77 pounds of nitrogen-free extract. It contains 6.2 pounds 

 of ash and has a nutritive ratio of 1 to 4.4 for chickens. The 

 crude fiber content is 24.8 pounds. 



Dried Blood. — Dried blood is not palatable for chickens. 

 Wheeler found that even when supplemented by bone 

 meal, dried blood gave a much slower growth when fed to 

 ducklings than did one containing meat scraps or another 

 containing milk albumin supplemented with bone meal. 

 Lack of palatability appeared to be the cause. 



Fish Scrap. — Dougherty^ found "that a good grade of fish 

 scrap gave as good results as commercial meat scrap, and 

 when properly fed did not in any way taint the eggs laid." 

 Philips' found that when the feeding value of meat scrap 

 was $23.92 per hundred pounds and of skim milk was $2.04 

 per hundred pounds, fish scrap had a feeding value of $27.65 

 per hundred pounds. While all these values have been 

 criticised for being high, there appears no reason for doubt- 

 ing them from a comparative standpoint. 



The average amounts of the nutrients found in 100 pounds 

 of fish scrap are 12.8 pounds of water, 32.6 pounds of ash, 

 52.4 pounds of crude protein, and 2.2 pounds of fat. The 

 amounts of these digestible for chickens are not known. 



Gluten Feed. — In the manufacture of glucose and corn 

 starch, the kernels of corn are soaked and separated into germ, 



' Maine Bulletin No. 184. 



' California Experiment Station Report, 1914-1915. 



' Purdue Bulletin No. 182. 



