376 FARM ANIMALS 
steady dish. Some green food should be fed each day. 
A ration recommended by one of the leading poultry 
schools for winter egg production is as follows: For 
grain, a mixture of 100 pounds of cracked corn, 100 
pounds of wheat and 50 pounds of oats fed in deep litter 
sparingly in the morning and freely at night. Mash is 
fed in the afternoon in hoppers. The mash mixture con- 
sists of the following: 60 pounds of wheat middlings, 
60 pounds of corn meal, 50 pounds of beef scrap, 30 
pounds of wheat bran, 10 pounds of alfalfa meal, 10 
pounds of linseed oil meal and a half pound of salt. 
