. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, August 26, 1911. RATION FOR GROWING CHICKS. Professor Wheeler of the New York State Experiment station suggests a daily ration for growing chicks, made as fol- lows: Cracked corn, one pound; wheat three-quarters of a pound; corn meal, three-quarters of a pound; wheat mid- dlings, one-half pound; fresh bone, two- thirds of a pound, and young, green alf- alfa, three-quarters of a pound. This forms a ration containing one-pound of protein, three and three-quarters pounds of carbohydrate and one-third pound of fat and having a n
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, August 26, 1911. RATION FOR GROWING CHICKS. Professor Wheeler of the New York State Experiment station suggests a daily ration for growing chicks, made as fol- lows: Cracked corn, one pound; wheat three-quarters of a pound; corn meal, three-quarters of a pound; wheat mid- dlings, one-half pound; fresh bone, two- thirds of a pound, and young, green alf- alfa, three-quarters of a pound. This forms a ration containing one-pound of protein, three and three-quarters pounds of carbohydrate and one-third pound of fat and having a nutritive ratio of 1 âthat is, one pound of flesh forming food to an equivalent of four and six- tenths pounds of heat and fat-forming food. This daily ratipn should be suf- ficient for 100 pounds of live weight; 'that is, it would feed 20 five-pound hens or 33 three-pound hens. BEANS FOR POULTRY. An interesting investigation recently conducted by the Bureau of Animal In- dustry at Washington had for its object the determination of the palatability of soy beans and cowpeas as feed for laying hens. Three pens were used, each receiving in addition to their mash a grain feed composed in the check pen of equal parts of wheat and whole corn, and in the other pens cowpeas and soy beans in place of the wheat. After a few days both the cowpeas and the soy beans were eaten readily and apparently relished. The hens seemed to do as well on the cowpeas or the soy beans as on the ra- tions containing wheat. When chickens die of the cholera some owaers carry out the dead and go on as before, never cleaning up infested drop- pings or fumigating the hen houses, and in a week or two there is another one or two dead fowls to carry out. Cholera will lurk in a single flock for years un- less rigidly stamped out by killing dis- eased birds, burning the carcasses, clean- ing the house and yard thoroughly and giving corn well burned on the cob then shelled, for several successive days. Xever buy
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