Mineral Content of Southern Poultry Feeds 
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TABLE I 
MINERAL CONTENT OF BODIES OF FOWLS* 
Parts per Hundred 
Age 
K 
Na 
Ca 
Mg 
S 
Cl 
P 
Fe 
Baby chick a.. __- _ 
0.2922 
0.2774 
0.1978 
0.0028 
0.007 
0.1510 
0.355 
0.0054 
V/z lb. broiler b.. --- 
.2380 
.1580 
1.0340 
.0440 
.3030 
.0790 
1.288 
.0056 
1 year old hen c-.- 
.2750 
.1640 
1.2970 
.0510 
.3820 
.2080 
1.510 
.0066 
*A11 tables of analyses in this bulletin were made by Dan M. McCarty, Nutritional Chemist, Animal 
Industry Division, N. C. Experiment Station, and Jno. E. Ivey of this laboratory. 
a The baby chicks were taken from the incubator, killed with chloroform, the abdominal yolk sacs 
removed. 
b The analyses was of a Single Comb White Leghorn, 
c The one year old hen was a Columbian Wyandotte. 
TABLE II 
MINERAL CONTENT OF SOUTHERN POULTRY FEEDS* 
(Results expressed in parts per hundred) 
Feed 
No. of 
Analyses 
Potas¬ 
sium 
Sodium 
Calcium 
Mag¬ 
nesium 
Sul¬ 
phur 
Chlo¬ 
rine 
Phos¬ 
phorus 
Iron 
Corn meal, bolted_ . 
4 
0.349 
0.072 
0.0092 
0.1336 
0.160 
0.0244 
0.341 
0.0040 
Pinhead oats_ 
7 
0.441 
0.109 
0.0126 
0.0704 
0.236 
0.0900 
0.490 
0.0019 
Whole wheat.- 
13 
0.435 
0.039 
0.0271 
0.1127 
0.183 
0.0630 
0.436 
0.0070 
Wheat middlings_ 
6 
0.949 
1.219 
0.0980 
0.3628 
0.232 
0.0603 
0.783 
0.0052 
Bone meal... 
3 
0.229 
0.735 
21.1770 
0.5800 
0.170 
0.0900 
10.349 
0.0180 
Meat and bone meal.. ... 
8 
0.158 
0.473 
13.2927 
0.8333 
0.238 
0.5883 
5.029 
0.1252 
Rolled oats... — 
2 
0.370 
0.136 
0.0430 
0.1560 
0.256 
0.0238 
0.473 
0.0062 
Whole corn__... 
13 
0.332 
0.041 
0.0127 
0.1051 
0.148 
0.0521 
0.293 
0.0044 
Hulled oats.-. 
6 
0.387 
0.053 
0.0915 
0.1465 
0.204 
0.0870 
0.454 
0.1090 
Velvet bean mealf. 
1 
1.186 
0.141 
0.3600 
0.2080 
0.151 
0.2220 
0.764 
0.0126 
Soybean meal. 
5 
1.179 
0.422 
0.2901 
0.2503 
0.330 
0.0373 
0.481 
0.0241 
Peanut meal__ 
5 
1.191 
0.422 
0.2401 
0.2106 
0.325 
0.0312 
0.567 
0.0271 
Skim-milk... 
2 
0.151 
0.144 
0.1530 
0.0019 
0.042 
0.0650 
0.136 
0.0036 
Egg, inc. shell... 
3 
0.0103 
0.200 
0.6080 
0.0985 
0.395 
0.1500 
0.3021 
0.0103 
Rape, green... .. . 
3 
0.2510 
0.008 
0.0084 
0.0206 
0.035 
0.0930 
0.0102 
0.00000076 
Lime stone grit. 
2 
0.0000 
0.000 
30.9700 
6.6700 
0.000 
0.0000 
0.0000 
3.3330 
Oysfcer shell.. ... - 
2 
0.0000 
0.000 
37.9510 
0.4200 
0.147 
0.0900 
0.0000 
0.37500 
Dried buttermilk_ ... 
4 
0.7084 
0.9531 
1.3491 
0.8107 
0.084 
0.3650 
0.1691 
0.4301 . 
Digester tankage... 
4 
0.3605 
0.1948 
3.0147 
1.1654 
0.124 
0.3483 
1.2323 
0.10175 
Dried blood. .. 
4 
0.0941 
0.3223 
0.3755 
0.2175 
0.281 
0.1381 
0.2864 
0.01650 
*Average of all our analysis to March 1, 1920 
tVelvet bean meal and pod. 
In making up the feed mixtures for these experiments, each kind of 
feed was taken from a single sack. 
