American poultry world . s exclusive to our mill. This process reduces the moisture and dextrinizes the starch in thegrain, preparing it for easy digestion and speedy assimilation. Besides, of course, H-O Steam-Cooked Chick Feed is a scientificallybalanced ration composed of cut oatmeal and other selected grains—cutto pin-point fineness. It saves chicks lives. It starts making bone and tissue from the start. Write for free sample, prices and descriptive folder. THE H-O COMPANY, Mills: BUFFALO, N. Y. JOHN J. CAMPBELL, General Sale* Agents HARTFORD, CONN. 280 AMERICAN POULTRY WORLD March, 1917 T


American poultry world . s exclusive to our mill. This process reduces the moisture and dextrinizes the starch in thegrain, preparing it for easy digestion and speedy assimilation. Besides, of course, H-O Steam-Cooked Chick Feed is a scientificallybalanced ration composed of cut oatmeal and other selected grains—cutto pin-point fineness. It saves chicks lives. It starts making bone and tissue from the start. Write for free sample, prices and descriptive folder. THE H-O COMPANY, Mills: BUFFALO, N. Y. JOHN J. CAMPBELL, General Sale* Agents HARTFORD, CONN. 280 AMERICAN POULTRY WORLD March, 1917 THE MISSING ELEMENTS IN ALL-GRAINFEED By E. E. Critchfield. -That the loss of certain chemical elementsin our soil, as the result of a long successionof the same or similar crops, without anyeffort to artificially replace those elements,has a direct bearing upon the problem ofpoultry feeding, is an assertion that can-not be denied. And it is no difficult matter to trace theTeason for this situation, it being only neces-. FASHION P L AT E: F OU RT H 5!RI:PBYfA^!^PL/\TE5R%AD0fYoUN( BY CH Kjr& N AM AC, ] ND. The above choice specimen won 1st as cock bird at the GreaterChicago Show, 1916. Note the splendid contour of body and theexcellent comb and other head points. Also note the stiirdinessof legs, indicating vigor—a fact also disclosed by the bright eye. sary to apply the simplest rules of chemistryand the most obvious laws of common sensein order to arrive at such a conclusion. Of course, no argument is needed in sup-port of the statement that the soil, in itsoriginal condition, does have certain ele-ments which enter into the grains grownthereon, and that continuous planting ofcrops without any effort to replace thoseelements as rapidly as they are exhausted,must result in material changes in the feed-ing value of such grains. In other words, it stands to reason thatcorn grown this year in a field which hasbeen planted to corn for


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