Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1922-08-05
VALUABLE POINTERS
ON EGG PRODUCTION
(By Associated Press)


trary to common recommends
lions. on poultry feeding, no dry
mash is required for maximum
egg production when sour butter
milk, semi-solid buttermilk, or
buttermilk is fed as a source of
of animal protein, according to
experts at the Kentucky Agricul-
tural Experiment Station, who
have been conducting expert
ments on the question for two
years.
The results are said to have an
outstandin gvalu efo corn belt far
mers, most of whom have skim
milk available together with an
ample supply of grain. The re-
suits also indicate that satisfac
tory results in egg production
can be obtained through the use
of three feeds, including wheat,
corn, semi-solid buttermilk or
sour buttermilk, according to J..
Holmes Martin in charge of poul-
try work at the station.
; Results obtained during the
first eight months of the expert
ment this year are in line with
thos eobtained in a similar exper-
iinent last year and show that
pullets which received feed Of
grain and sour buttermilk, pro-
Guced III eggs each during. the
eight months which was one
more than the average nulpber
produced by each pullet in anotli-
er pen in which the birds receiv-
ed grain and senli-solid butter
milk.
A pen of pullets that We're fed
the same grain ration, sour butter
milk and dry mash that did not
include animal protein, ranked
third in egg production, these
birds having averaged 90 eggs
each during the eight months. A
pen consisting of the same NUM-
Iber of pullets that were fed a
commonly recommended ration
Of grain and a dry mash contain
ing animal protein produced 81
eggs each while puilets in a fifth
pen of the same size that receiy-
ed grain, semi-solid butternilk
and mash that did not contain
protein produced SO eggs each as
an average for the eight months.
The same number of pullets in
another pen that were fed grain
and a mash that did not contain
meat scrap or animal protein, pro
duced only 20 eggs each during
the eight months, this result be-
ing considered striking evil
dence of the value of animal pro-
TEN in the ration of the laying
hen.
Six pens of 20 White Wyan-
.dotte pullets each, of the same
age and handled under identical
conditions, were used in the ex-
pertinent. All pens were given
a grain ration consisting of 20
pouNs of cracked corn. and 80
pounds of whole oats. The mash
fed to some of the pens consisted
of 20 pounds each of bran, shorts,
corn meal, and ground oats. while
one pen received 20 pounds of
meat scrap in this mixture.
In addition to leading in pro
duction, the 20 pullets in the per
that received grain and sour but
termilk as their feed also pro-
duced each dozens eggs with the
lowest cost Of feed, this cost 81
cents a dozen. The pen that re-
ceived grain, milk and mash with
out animal protein, was second in
feed cost, these pullets having
produced each dozens Of eggs at
a feed cost cf ia cents. The
costs for the other pens ranged
upward gradually, being highest
jlfor the pen that received only
gran and mash without animal
protein. It took III worth CT
feed a dozen eggs in this pen. The
costs were figured at the current
prices of feed.
With semi-solid buttermilk sell
ing for four cents a pound, a
common price, the farmer could
! afford to pay seven cents gallon
for sour buttermilk, according to
the experimental results. In the
two leading egg producing pens,
the pullets of which each aver
aged practically the same number
of eggs, the results show that
five pounds of sour buttermilk
was equal I'd one pound of semi
solid buttermilk.