Poultry culture sanitation and hygiene . s given excellent results in fat-tening, egg production, as well as in chick rearing work. Soybean produces a very large yield and is grown both forforage and for the beans. When grown for seed a yield offrom 12 to 40 bushels per acre is obtained. Soybean is grownlargely in the southern states. It is an excellent poultry feed. Peanut Meal.—Peanut meal is a by-product in the manu-facture of peanut oil. Like soybean meal it has given excel-lent results when forming part of the feed mixture for broilerproduction, egg production, and fattening. Cracked pean
Poultry culture sanitation and hygiene . s given excellent results in fat-tening, egg production, as well as in chick rearing work. Soybean produces a very large yield and is grown both forforage and for the beans. When grown for seed a yield offrom 12 to 40 bushels per acre is obtained. Soybean is grownlargely in the southern states. It is an excellent poultry feed. Peanut Meal.—Peanut meal is a by-product in the manu-facture of peanut oil. Like soybean meal it has given excel-lent results when forming part of the feed mixture for broilerproduction, egg production, and fattening. Cracked peanutsare also used in pigeon feeding, 19 290 POULTRY CtTLTTJRE Peanuts are grown largely in the southern states. Fat extracted peanut meal contains per cent, protein, per cent, carbohydrates, and per cent. fat. Cow-peas are very rich in protein, containing per cent.,but low in fat, containing only per cent. It contains cent, carbohydrates. Ground cow-pea could be fed with profit as a constituentof the Fig. 100.—A green feed cutter sold on the market. Animal protein is apparently essential in egg production andbest results of growth and development. It may be given inthe form of buttermilk, sweet milk, clabber milk, or cottagecheese. Dried animal tissue may be used as a constituent ofthe mash. Condensed buttermilk is put on the market by some ofthe larger creameries. This product is in semisolid form andis condensed. On account of its lactic acid content, thefinished product is self-preserving. It contains aU the con- FEEDSTUFFS 291 stituents of normal buttermilk. Dried buttermilk is alsoprepared. Milk Albumin.—-In the process of the manufacture of milksugar there is left over a by-product which is dessicated andsold as milk albumin. One pound of this dried material isadded to 5 or 6 quarts of water and is used in mixing feed forthe baby chicks and also as a drink for young and old is in fact the skimmed milk less the milk sugar.
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