Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1916 — PRINCIPAL RATION FOR EGGS [ARTICLE]

PRINCIPAL RATION FOR EGGS

Cracked Com, Wheat and Heavy White Oats Are Three Chief Ingre- - • dients of Mixture. One of the principal rations used in one of the most successful laying contests of the year consists of: Pounds. Cracked corn Wheat 60 Heavy white oats jo Barley ••••• ‘JJ Kafir corn JJj Coarse beef scraps io We believe that plump oats, wheat, barley, cracked corn and beef scraps would give about the same results, writes M. F. Greeley in Dokota Farmer. Six thousand eggs to the farm, is the way our statisticians have it, or about 70 eggs to the hen. And this with ja goodly number of trap-nested birds producing over 200 eggs, not a few over 250 to 286. Too many roosters, old hens, late, good-for-nothing chickens and culls generally are largely the cause of this low average. Let’s all try to raise it. Since uillity, and not quite so much foolery, governs the selection of prize fowls now much more than it did, the so-ealled moss-back farmers are taking more interest in poultry shows; and not only that but they are taking more birds home with them when they go than when birds were judged wholly by stripe, comb and feathers. Sensible farmers, refusing to be fooled, have" brought much of this change about.