Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 170, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1919 — IDEAL FEED FOR CHICKENS [ARTICLE]

IDEAL FEED FOR CHICKENS

Poultrymen Advised to Sift All Cracked Corn to Save Finest Material —Sieving Favored. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Where poultrymen purchase cracked corn, feeding this grain In the litter, there is always a loss of about 20 per cent of the finest grain, which is wasted and thrown out with the chaff. Specialists advise poultrymen to sift all cracked corn they purchase or prepare at home in order to remove the finest ground material, which they can mix witK pinhead oats and cracked wheat in order to make an Ideal feed for young chickens or use in the mash for laying hens. Where cracked corn costs about $3 a bag a loss of about 60 cents’ worth of the very fine grain ordinarily occurs. Practice of the sieving method recommended will minimize this loss.