Arizona republican., 1922-04-30


the only thing that made the differ
ence of $1.5S loss and 1922 profit be-
tween pen four and pen three last
year. It is the only difference that
is being made this year in care or
attention except change of location)
from last year.
Bran, 325 lbs; corn meal. 165 lbs;
wheat shorts, 100 lbs: meat scra ps,
100 lbs: bone meal, 100 lbs: char
coal so lbs: linseed oil cake meal,
25 lbs.
The feed is kept constantly before
fed in the litter once day before
going to roost.
Some might object to this, claiyning
that there Is too large percentage
of protein in the meat scrap and bone
meal: others might not consider that
there is enough Many prefer to mix
their own mash for one reason or
another. and quite possibly there may
be many that are just 3 efficient as
this one. For the No. 10 mash it can
be said that it has proved satisfac-
tory at the station farm for several
years and Is being used with success
by a number of Salt Rive- valley
poultrymen. Several Of the valley
feed stores now carry this as a stock
mash.
A number of valley poultrymen
have put a good deal of thought and
study into the matter of feeds, and
their methods and their mixes may
be just as satisfactory as the No. 10.
A few are given below:
How These Men Feed.
This is the way A. H. Westfall
feeds:
Forty lbs. bran. 20 lbs. shorts, 20
lbs. cormeal, 20 lbs. ground barley,
16 lbs. meat scrap, lbs. alfalfa meal.
charcoal fed dry in hoppers. Grain
wheat and cracked corn.
Arthur VOLTS ration:
Dry Mash Formula, four bags bran,
half bag shorts, half bag ground corn,
25 lbs. alfalfa meal, 10 lbs. oil meal,
80 lbs meat scraps, liz lbs, salt.
Fed in hoppers dry. Green cut bone
fed twice week. Hard grain. wheat
and Hegaria.
f. Draper finds this method pro-
fitable:
Moist mash in morning with poul-
try mustard added during fall and
winter Dry mash in hoppers at all
times. Dry Mash-325 lbs. bran, 200
lbs. shorts. 200 lbs. ground barley.
100 lbs. fish meal. 100 lbs. bone meal,
so lbs. charcoal. 25 lbs. soy bean
meal, fed dry in hoppers and moist
in morning. Grain-Wheat and
and cracked barley at 500 p. m.
Carl Tupper likes this ration:
Dry Mash sack bran. 20 lbs.
corn meal. 16 lbs. beef scrap. 2 to 3
lbs. charcoal. Fed dry in hopperss
Cracked barley also fed in hoppers
Grain--Whole wheat or milo maize
according to season.
John Weber preferes his feed this
way.
cracked corn, wheat and milo. gall
Ions lime water, gallons milk. cook
for five or ten minutes. This is
done at night and mash SINNERS
till morning, then mix with one buck
ct of bran Fed in troughs in the
morning. Green feed, such as barley
green alfalfa, swiss chard. lettuce or
whatever available, cut fine ond feed
q noon in troughs.
This is the feed used on the Mitch
ell form at Mesa:
One hundred and thirty lbs. wheat
bran. 40 lbs. ground corn. 90 lbs.
ground oats. so lbs shorts. Is lbs.
meat scrap (Darlingsl ib. salt. Fed
in hoppers. Grain-wheat, milo, ! ID.
to ten birds. Green feed. free range
Tested for Results
There is no law 10 compel any one
to use any of the above formulas. any
more than there is any law or rea son
against any one making q better
mixture. The above are giving good
results, and although there is con-
siderable variety, and all other things
being on a par. 1t is probable that
a poultryman will get better results
from formula and a feeding system
that he has worked out. than he
will by rather blindly following some
one else's formula. 1t is the same
principal as choosing a breed that
one fancies and il there is merit in
the breed he will do better with that
than with a breed that Jones or
Smith likes and says is best.
The most successful feeder will
know something of the feeding value
of the different ingredients and will
try to blend these feeds SO as to
make ration that will bring results
and will be economical. Quite often
a poultryman has not the time to
mix feeds and can buy them just
about as cheap already mixed. and if
he knows what is in the mixture and