The Effect of the Lack of Animal Food upon the Health of the Bird

Abstract

The following is an average of many such tests run to determine the effects of the lack of animal food upon development of the young and growing chick.

The ration containing no animal food was as follows:

Wheat middlings	35 pounds
Corn meal	30 pounds
Ground oats	35 pounds
Soybean meal	24 pounds

The nutritive ratio of this mixture is 1:3.2, the per cent protein calories are 30, the cost, at the time the experiment was run was $4.40 per hundred. It is excessively base being 63.9 per pound.

The grain ration consisted of the following mixture:

Cracked corn	30 pounds
Wheat screenings	20 pounds
Hulled oats	10 pounds

The nutritive ratio of this mixture is 1: 7.8, the per cent protein calories are 13, the cost per hundred pounds, at the time the experiment was run, was $5.05, it is excessive acid being 67.2.

The mash was kept before . . .