It is quite a problem with dairymen when and in what quantities to buy bran, cottonseed meal, gluten meal, or
linseed meal, and which one furnishes them the most value for the money.
We have a flock of about 40 mixed Rhode Island Reds and Aracaunars, who are fed a grain mix (rolled oats, corn, milo) and a laying mash (bran,
linseed meal, salt, eggshells, and milk or water).
Adams commented on this list of ingredients from a poultry ration given in a 1934-1936 edition of the Feed Trade Manual: yellow corn, wheat bran, flour middlings, meat scraps, dried buttermilk, steamed bone meal, fine ground oats, salt, powdered tobacco, iron-copper mixture, fine ground barley,
linseed meal, kelp meal, cod liver oil, soybean meal, copra meal, molasses, red dog flour, bone black, yeast, and cottonseed meal.