ri. FEEDING EXPERIMENTS WITH CHICKS AND 



CAPONS* 



THE RELATIVE EFFICIENCY OF WHOLE AND GROUND 

 GRAINS AS COMMONLY FED. 



W. p. WHEELER. 



SUMMARY. 



A ration consisting mostly of the ordinary ground grain foods 

 and containing no whole grain was more profitably fed to chicks 

 than another ration consisting mostly of whole grain and con- 

 taining no ground grain. 



Capons from the one lot afterward made a somewhat cheaper 

 gain in weight on the whole grain ration, but the grain was too 

 slow to compensate for the more rapid growth which had been 

 made, as chicks, by the lot having the ground grain ration. 



Of two other lots of capons, those having the ground grain 

 ration made the more profitable gain during several months. 



In every trial more food was eaten when the gix)und grain was 

 fed than when the whole grain was fed. 



Neither the chicks and capons having only the whole grain 



nor those having only the ground grain showed any lack of health 



and vigor. 



INTRODUCTION. 



A number of experiments have been made at this Station to 

 obtain information concerning the economy of feeding ground 

 grain to poultry. The results froim several of these tests with 

 laying hens were published in Bulletin No. 106. The results of 

 some other feeding experiments made at that time with young 

 chicks and with capons seem of interest enough to warrant sepa- 

 rate publication in this bulletin, for many inquiries are made 

 concerning the relative advantage of feeding ground and whole 

 grain to young stock. 



♦Reprint of BuUetin No. 126. 



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