Feeding Rations and Methods Used at the Vineland Contest

The poultry department has been giving great thought and much study to the questions of rations both at New Brunswick and at Vineland, with the result that simple, yet efficient mixtures have been worked out which are meeting with great success wherever they are used. With them a world’s record for White Leghorn egg production was made last year at Vineland when the White Leghorns, numbering 540, succeeded in laying an average of 192 eggs per bird. Simple mixtures are desirable. They are easier to mix. Only the whole grains, wheat, corn and oats and their by-products have been used. The laying mash recommended is made up of:

Laying Mash

100 pounds wheat bran

100 pounds wheat middlings

100 pounds ground oats

100 pounds corn meal

100 pounds high-grade meat scrap

This mash contains plenty of variety, the ingredients are readily obtained anywhere in New Jersey, and being balanced in . . .