The Comparative Value of Yellow Corn, Yellow Milo, and Hegari in a Diet for Growing Chicks

Yellow corn is not successfully grown in the arid regions of the Southwest, but the grain sorghums are grown extensively and are of considerable economic importance. The grain sorghums, yellow milo† and hegari, are usually cheaper, at least in the Salt River Valley region of Arizona, than the imported yellow corn, and are used extensively in poultry rations in some localities. In the diets recommended for poultry of different ages by the U. S. Poultry Experiment Station, Glendale, Arizona, yellow milo partly replaces yellow corn. Hoist and Newlon (1927), Payne (1926), and Sherwood (1926) suggest that milo may be substituted, wholly or in part, for yellow corn in diets for laying hens. However, there are no experimental data available which show the comparative nutritive value of yellow corn, yellow milo, and hegari when they are used in diets for chicks. Smith (1930a) used albino rats as experimental subjects, and concluded . . .