. Poultry for the farm and home. Courl^sy A 36-eggs-per-year hen—I he kind that eats herliead off. Milk or Meat Scrap. Egg production depends more uponthe amount and kind of protein eaten than upon any other are naturally grain eaters and will do well on almost anygrain mixture if they have milk or meat scrap to go with it. Byholding most of the whole grain until the night feeding, we keepthe hens hungry and thus force them to exercise and to eat themore concentrated protein feed through the day. Milk is the best protein for chickens as well as for folks. Oneof the best ways to marke
. Poultry for the farm and home. Courl^sy A 36-eggs-per-year hen—I he kind that eats herliead off. Milk or Meat Scrap. Egg production depends more uponthe amount and kind of protein eaten than upon any other are naturally grain eaters and will do well on almost anygrain mixture if they have milk or meat scrap to go with it. Byholding most of the whole grain until the night feeding, we keepthe hens hungry and thus force them to exercise and to eat themore concentrated protein feed through the day. Milk is the best protein for chickens as well as for folks. Oneof the best ways to market part of your milk is through the eggbasket. Milk should not be sold from the farm until the chickens. 26. SKIM MILK BEST PROTEIN FEED ^ the pigs, the calves and the folks have had their portion. Many dairy farmers near the large cities where there is a goodmarket for milk make the mistake of not using enough milk athome. One-crop farming isalways disastrous whether thatcrop be cotton, potatoes, fruit,or milk. Milk can be fed either sweetor sour but do not feed it sweetone day and sour the next. Give aU the hens will drink, more egg^lt malfesyLnghick- If you do not have milk or «« grow,cannot buy it at a reasonable price, use beef scrap in its place. It is often good practice to use part beef scrap and part milk. Beef scrap is a product of the packing houses. Waste piecesand offals are ground, disinfected, and cooked. In this formthey keep indefinitely. Get a good quahty, one testing 60 or cent protein. Where no milk is fed, one pound of beef scrap to every ninepounds of grain is about the right proportion. Save the table scraps and offals from butchering for the hens. If wild gam
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