The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1911-2016, 1916-05-11

nl8n III mlddIlngs 1s paSty, and when
used, middlings should be mixed with
other foods 30 as to be easily handled
by the digestive tract.
Corn should form large portion Of
the ration. 1t Is liked by the fowls.
Because Of its high starch and fat
content, 1t is fattening. It should be
fed in combination with other grains.
Cracked corn is in form more easily
assimilated than whole corn, and bet
ter results will come with the use of
it. Feeding immature or green corn
In the fall often results in digestive
troubles.
Cornmeal should be present in all
rations 1t may be used In the mash,
but should be mixed with other feeds
80 as to lessen the liability of crop
impaction. One danger In handling
cornmeal Is it's liability Of heating or
fermenting in storage. Sour or moldy
feed should never be fed. A good prac-
tice is to mix the cornmeal with bran
in proportions desired, and store
mixed rather than attempt to store
separately. One Of the reasons why
cornbread is better than cornmeal as
a chick food is that baking destroys
the ferments or molds.
Oats can be used successfully in the
ration. When fed whole they should
be fed in limited quantities, not more
than one-third Of the grain ration, be-
cause Of the high percentage of hull.
Chickens are able to digest but very
little crude fiber, and for this reason
one must limit the amount of foods
with hulls, such as buckwheat, oats,
sunflower seed, etc. The ration should
not have more than 3h to 4 per cent
| of crude fiber. Ground oats make an
! excellent mash for chickens, while pin
head or steelcut oats make excellent
chick feed, as do rolled oats.
| The hen requires some food high in
protein. All our grain foods so far
considered do not furnish enough pro.
tein. 1t Is necessary, then, to supply
something which will balance the ra.
tion, or equalize the relation between
the proteins and the carbohydrates
and fats. OF the vegetable protein
foods, oil meal is perhaps the most
popular. 1t is high in protein, con.
tanning 80 per cent, and makes val
liable addition to the mash during the
moulting season. It should never form
more than one-fifteenth Of the ration.
Cottonseed meal Is not considered as
palatable and 1t is slightly constipating.
If fed, 1t should be in very small guam
titles. Gluten meal is also used for
the same purpose and is greatly rel
| ished.
10 ot k;1i
for efficient egg production. In fact,
1t Is poor economy not to feed meat
food of some kind. Increased returns
from feeding 1t more than make up for
the expense. Beef scrap is perhaps
the most common meat food This is
commercial product which comes in
ground form, will keep indefinitely
| and can be mixed in the mash Beef
scrap runs very high in protein and in
| addition contains ash, which is bene
fetal. 1t is useless expense to feed
too much. One-twelfth beef scrap in
the ration Is as much as necessary,
provided no other food unusually high
In protein Is fed. If oil meal, gluten
meal, etc.. are fed, this proportion can
be reduced. At the Missouri agricul
tural experiment station a pen OF 25
l-eghorns was fed beef scrap and pro.
duced 8G9 more eggs from November
IL, 1914, to July /. 1915, than a CORE.
spending pen which was fed the same
Eration but without the beef scrap. The
| Two pens ate practically the same
amount of food, so that $21o worth
%of beef scrap produced 500 more eggs
f.: Green cut bone is popular as meat
food. 1t Is greatly relished by hens
The preparation Of 1t is laborioua un
/ less one has power cutter 1t must
pc fed almost as soon as prepared, Tor
it spoils very quickly in warm weather
A small amount daily increases ma.
xterially the egg production. When
tone meat food is fed there Is no ne I'd
OF supplying others.
Tankage is not 30 satisfactory be
cause the hens do not like 1t 80 we.l
Fresh fish, infertile eggs, table scraps
setc can also be used in the supply of
animal food XIII, ,.,.
For farmers the use OF sour
skinned milk or buttermilk is urged
at the Missouri agricultural experi.
ment station it was shown that by the
use of sour milk the cost Of produc.
jig eggs was reduced ten cent a. dozen
a pen of 25 Leghorns which was fed
milk produced. in eight months $50
more eggs than another pen fed the
same ration, but without sour milk. At
the rate Of 20 cents per 109 pounds for
milk $3.50 worth Of, milk produced
850 more eggs. The pen consumed 100
pounds less feed; during tfstttime:
Sour. milk is better than sweet milk.
In. feeding miIKsone should Keep the