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Food, shells and water were kept constantly before the fowls. 

 Basins which contained the food and water were kept within a 

 a box constructed of lath, so arranged that the fowls could reach 

 between the slats and procure tood and drink without wasting or 

 soiling. 



July 26th the hens and chickens were each separated into two 

 lots of five each, as follows : 



Hens, nitrogenous ration, weighed 23 lbs. 8.5 oz. 



Hens, carbonaceous ration, weighed 23 lbs. 9 oz. 



Chickens, nitrogenous ration, weighed 8 lbs. 15 oz. 



Chickens, carbonaceous ration, weighed 9 lbs. r oz. 



The four lots were placed in separate pens where they remained 

 during the entire experiment, which lasted 125 days. They were 

 fed and watered once daily, and an account kept of the food eaten 

 and water drank. At each feeding the food and water remaining 

 was weighed back and deducted from the amount charged at the 

 previous feeding. 



The hens and chickens fed a nitrogenous ration, were given 

 daily all they would eat of the following mixture : x /i part wheat 

 bran, yi part wheat shorts, yi part cotton seed meal, 2 parts 

 skimmed milk, and will be designated Lot I. 



The hens and chickens fed a carbonaceous ration, were given 

 daily all they would eat of a ration of cracked maize and maize 

 dough, and will be designated Lot II. 



Both groups were given a small amount of green clover as long 

 as it lasted, and afterward cabbage. 



For convenience the experiment was divided into five periods of 

 twenty-five days. 



FOOD CONSUMED AND INCREASE IN LIVE WEIGHT. 



During the first period all the fowls seemed in good health ex- 

 cept the carbonaceous fed chickens, they, during this as in all 

 succeeding periods, were restless and peevish, al\va3 r s moping or 

 hunting for something to eat, though their trough was filled. 

 When fed they would greedily take a few mouthfuls and then, 

 with their hunger still unappeased, would leave the dish. They 

 always ate ravenously the green food which was given them, as 

 did the hens and chickens of Lot I. The hens of Lot II, on the 

 contrary, seemed quite willing to squat about the pen and subsist 

 on the maize diet, and strangely enough, cared little for green 



