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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



9-10 EDWARD VII., A. 1910 



Table 10 — Pen 36. — This pen was one of the two compartments in the heated house 

 mentioned in preceding table 9. This compartment had also a scratch-shed at- 

 tached, and contained 10 White Wyandotte hens, two years of age. 



The rations fed to above pen of fowls were the same as those described in Table 7. 



QUANTITY OF FOOD CONSUMED. 



Grain 531 pounds. 



Mash of ground grains . . . . 127 " 



Cut bone 56 " 



Beets 127 " 



Ground oyster shells 30 " 



Grit 29 " 



BENEFIT OF BREEDING FROM SELECTED STOCK. 



Table 11 — Pen 34.— Showing the number of eggs laid by 27 White Wyandotte pullets 

 hatched in May, 1907, under observation from November, 1907, till October, 1908. 

 The parent stock from which these pullets were bred laid an average of 62| eggs 

 each per year. 



The pullets, in this instance, show an average of 80 eggs per yed^each, a gain of 

 5 eggs per pullet over the number of eggs laid by their parent stock. Incidentally the 

 advantage of breeding from trap-nest-proved good layers is made evident. 



