The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-07-31
(By Associated Pressl


COLUMBUS, Ohio, July 31-Hens
whose rations contain animal protein
lay much larger number of eggs
than those forced to do without This
is the lesson which is being taught to
thousands of Ohio farmers as a part
of the flock demonstration feeding
campaign that is being conducted
throuhg the county farm bureaus by
extension workers of the Ohio State
university.
The campaign is being conducted on
the demonstration plan of teaching
The university workers arrange with
farmers already interested to try out
modern chicken feeding methods at
home and then report their results to
neighbors at scheduled meetings held
at the henhouse door of the demon
strators.
More than 200 farmers came to the
Wooster Experiment Station for the
special leaders training school that
started the campaign and were shown
by D. c. Kennard, investigator, four
pens of laying hens on which he had
been keeping check for three months
During April he fed all the pens
alike. They average a production of
Sc eggs to the pen for the month. Then
during May and June he fed one pen
the recommended ration, consisting of
a grain mixture that is three parts
corn and part each of wheat and
oats; the Ohio dry mash consisting of
two parts ground corn and one part
each of fine ground oats, standard
ioh Ia
The scraps carry the protein, which,
according to scientists, does most to
make eggs. The mash was kept be-
fore the flock at all times during May
and June.
. Jumps Production.
At a time when hens usually let
down in egg production, this pen
jumped its average production from
rs to 81 eggs a week, and during the
week of June 8. the last one of the ex-
pertinent, 104 eggs were produced
Pen number two got the same ration
that carried it through April Egg pro-
duction from this pen dropped from
an average of So a week to SO, and
when the experiment ended the yield
had dropped to % per week.
Pen number three. with an average
of 81 eggs a week in April, was fed
the grain ration and mash in April,
minus only the meat scraps, and its
average had dropped to 25 eggs by the
end of June
On pen four the experimental went
from one extreme to the other. He
took away the egg building mash
throughout May. During the last week
of that month, when the pen was down
TO 20 eggs per week, he suddenly
started feeding all recommended in
gradients and during the first week in
June they produced II eggs, an in
crease of 255 per cent over the previ-
Gus weeks yield The next week they
laid "a, and the following week, 80, a
total increase of 345 per cent, trace
able wholly to change of feed
This is the plan of the demonstra.
tions now being carried to all parts
of the state.
The recently arranged merger be
tween the Federated Fruit Growers,
Inc, and the North American Fruit
Exchange should result in the estab-
lishment of facilities whereby any
fruit grower may sell his products CO
operatively in any market, in the opin
ion of r. 3. Cruickshank, secretary
of the State Horticultural society
The merger was entered into with
HSLhe idea of marketing all fruit sold
in America entirely through one co
operative organization as is now tho
case in California, where the citrus
fruit crop is cleared largely through
the California Fruit Growers Elk
change.
The Ohio Horticultural society t
which Mr.. Cruickshank expresses hi:
opinions in a letter, has aided in es
tablishing local apple packing plant!
in a number of southern Ohio coun
ties and in uniting these plants int
an Ohio Fruit Growers association
This association now is clearing il.
early apples through the office of tn,