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POULTRY PRODUCTION 



When the top sprouts are two or three inches long, the 

 root sprouts will be found to have become closely inter- 

 woven so that the whole tray of oats may be picked up like 

 a rug and thrown over the shoulder. Tear off as much for 



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A rack for sprouting oats. (Courtesy of Purdue Experiment Station.) 



the birds as they will entirely clean up in twenty minutes 

 to half an hour. Jaffa' gives the composition of oats sprouted 

 five days: water, 51.46 per cent.; ash, 2.18 per cent.; protein, 

 4.77 per cent.; nitrogen-free extract, 32.58 per cent.; crude 



> California Bulletin No. 164. 



