SOUR MILK AS AN EGG PRODUCER

Horowhenua Chronicle, 24 March 1916, Page 3

SOUR MILK AS AN EGG PRODUCER

V Theory and experience both say in emphatic terms, 'Feed the laying hen with sour milk or meat scraps as part ul her ration." An interesting experiment was conducted recently at the Missouri .Experiment Station, along these iine6. H. L. Kampster, writing in the Farmers' Keview, or Ulrica go, gives the resuils as follows :— "Milk or meat in the ration may make all the difference between profit and loss. We know from ouST tests at the experiment station and from the experiment of poultry-men everywhere, no got only 945 eggs from a pen 01 hens that ate no animal food, white another pen of liens, no better in any way, but fed 011 sour milk, laid 1783. Those fed on beef scrap laid 1807 eggs. While this ia a higher record than either of the others, the sour miilk is so much cheaper and easier to get on most farms that we recommend it xiost highly. '