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Excerpt from Nutritive Requirements and Feed Formulas for Chickens It is estimated that the chickens of the United States consume in a year more than tons of feed. This is at least one-sixth of all the concentrate feeds supplied to livestock. It also represents about one-half of the total cost of producing eggs and poultry meat in the United States. These figures emphasize the importance of the proper use of poultry feed to the efficiency of our agriculture, and especially to the efficiency of the poultry industry. The best possible use of feed by chickens would occur only if all the required nutrients were present in exactly the proportions needed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
