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in lessening mortality. If fed soon enough and long enoiigli, it 

 greatly reduces the death rate from bacillary white diarrhea. 

 Sweet and sour milk are apparently of equal value, as the good 

 effect is evidently not dependent on the acids present nor upon 

 particular types of organisms, but upon one or more of the mate- 

 rial constituents of the milk. The free feeding of milk, especially 

 to early hatched chicks brooded indoors, requires special attention 

 to securing exercise for the birds. 



No difference in feeding value is shown between sweet or clean 

 sour milk, but chicks should not be changed from one form to the 

 other. 



Rations for capons and roasters. (Ohio, 184.) The lot of 

 capons which received a ration carrying throughout the fattening 

 period a fixed proportion of protein, made a better rate of gain 

 at a lower feed consumption per pound of gain than the lot re- 

 ceiving a ration with diminishing protein, a so-called fattening or 

 carbohvdrate ration. The cost of feed was about the same for 

 both lots, however, taking the average of two experiments. The 

 lot on corn, wheat and oats (11, 15, 4), with a mash of ground 

 corn, bran and beef scrap (2, 2, 1), ate more feed per pound of 

 gain and cost more than the two preceding lots on corn, with a 

 mash of corn and beef scrap (2, 1 or 1, 2, for first week changing 

 gradually to 16 to 1 for 32d week) ; but the lot on corn and oil meal 

 made an even poorer growth. Capons confined* ate only 2 per cent 

 less feed but made 17 per cent less gain than those allowed free 

 range. 



Egg-laying contest. (Storrs [Conn.] 82.) Xotes are given 

 on the development of egg-laying contests with a somewhat de- 

 tailed account of the ''Third Annual International Contest " as 

 conducted at the Station. Houses, nests and methods of feeding 

 are described, with monthly egg records of the 82 pens, and sum- 

 maries of feed consumed and cost of production. The return 

 above cost of feed ranged from $23% to $15 with the different 

 breeds, the Leghorns leading, followed closely by Wyandottes, 

 and with quite an interval, by the Reds and Rocks. One hen 

 produced eggs worth $42l/'2 more than the cost of the feed, while 

 another gave a return of only $5 more than the feed cost. 



