Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1919-10-31
Speed Up Fall Egg Flow
By Well Planned Feeding
Are Properly Balanced Rations Generously
Tested lures.

Mrs. Hen, veteran, and Miss Pullet,
rookie of the laying flock, will pro-
duce plenty of eggs during the fall
and winter months if they are prop
erl yfed and carefully managed.
Investigations of the United States
department of agriculture show that
general purpose pullets will consume
in a year an average of GO pounds
of feed to one dozen eggs produced,
while yearlings will eat about SO
pounds of feed. In these expert
ments the Leghorn pullets ate 4.S
pounds and the yearlings 5.5 pounds
of feed for the production of one
dozen eggs. The general-purpose
pullet ate 10 pounds more feed in
producing one dozen eggs than the
Leghorn pullets, and the difference
increased very rapidly with the age
of the stock, the general-purpose
yearlings consuming Al pounds more
feed to a dozen eggs than the Leg
horn yearlings; therefore, the Leg
horns produced eggs more cheaply
than the general-purpose breeds.
| This is in accordance with the gen.
orally accepted standards which value
the general-purpose breeds most
highly for market or for the Matching
and breeding purposes of the general
g Nd oly nd ~ roicnr
while the Leghorns are especially
adapted for use on commercial egg
farms.
Profitable egg production is large
ly the result of properly balanced ra-
lions of wholesome feeds. A bal
anced ration is a combination of feeds
furnishing just the necessary amount
of nutrients to produce the highest
and most economical egg yields and
maintain body requirements at the
same time. A good egglaying ration
should include scratch mixture and
mash composed of palatable feeds
containing some animal protein and
considerable bulk. Corn and wheat
are the two best grains for poultry
feeding, although wheat can be fed
alone better than corn, which is in
clined to be fattening. Oats and bar
ley, on account of their higher fber
content, are not as good as corn and
wheat, while rye is not we'll relished
by fowls and is seldom fed. Moldy
grains should never be fed poultry,
although wheat screenings or slightly
damaged grain sometimes may be
used to advantage.
Menu Makeups for Biddy.
good mash consists of 16 pounds
of corn meal, 6k pounds of meat
scrap, l pound of bran, and pound
of middlings, which should be fed
supplementary to the scratch mix
ture of ! pound each of cracked corn,
wheat and oats. Another good mash
consists of pounds of corn meal or
barley meal, l pound of middlings,
pound of meat or fish scrap. which
should be fed in combination with a
scratch mixture of 2 pounds of
cracked corn, 1 pound of oats, or
pound of wheat or barley. A third
valuable mash consists of 8 pounds
of corn meal, l pound of meat scrap,
which should be fed in combination
with the scratch mixture of pounds
of cracked corn and l pound of oats.
Still another practical mash mixture
consists of 9 pounds of corn meal, 5
pounds of middlings, 4 pounds of
bran, pounds of cottonseed or
gluten meal. pounds of meat scrap.
per cent bone meal, fed in connec-
ton with a scratch combination of
pounds cracked corn, l pound of
wheat. l pound of oats. and pound
of barley.
The scratch mixture should be fed
twice daily, preferably in litter from
3 to inches deep on the floor of the
henhouse, feeding about one-third of
the mixture in the morning and two
thirds in the afternoon. The mash
may be fed dry or wet, although the
dry mash is more common, it being
kept constantly before the fowls in
the hopper. If hens show a tendency
to become too fat. make them work
for their feed by feeding the scratch
grain in deep litter. by feeding less
scratch grain, and by reducing the
quantity of meat scrap in the mash.
The feeder must exercise his own
judgment in deciding how much
grain to supply, as the amount should
vary with the different fowls and al
different seasons of the year
Generally good standard is to
feed about one quart of scratch grain
and an equal weight of mash Il p
quarts daily to IS hens of the gen
eral-purpose breeds, such as the Ply
mouth Rocks, Rhode Island Reds. OF
W171N0fME Night and Morning.