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to work constantly in order to obtain sufficient nourishment. This 

 condition of the dry-mash chicks continued and increased throughout 

 the six weeks, these chicks being too busy eating the mash to have 

 any time left for the green food in their yard. The grass disappeared 

 in the fourth week from all the other yards, but in this yard it lasted 

 almost to the end of the six weeks. Later, when green food was supplied, 

 the dry-mash flock ate much less than the other flocks. 



During the sixth week the flocks having the dry food refused to 

 eat their own ration so long as they could see other chicks eating the 

 wet mash, and the flocks having the wet mash seemed to be hunting for 

 something they did not have. When offered a choice of food, those 

 having dry grain selected the wet mash, and those which had been 

 reared on the wet mash chose the cracked grain. The one exception 

 to this rule was the flock having the variety ration. These chicks ate 

 well of their own ration, which consisted at this time of a dry mash 

 and cracked grain, and practically refused the wet mash. They were, 

 however, constantly trying to escape from their pen and yard. 



Quality of foods 



The nutritive quality of the foods given during the experiment is 

 shown in some degree by the table of analyses which is given below. 

 This table also gives the prices paid per loo lbs. for the foods used. 



Table 3. — Analyses (Total Nutrients) and Prices per ioo Pounds of Foods 



Used in the Experiment 



Com (flint) 



Wheat (winter) . . 



Hulled oats 



Wheat middlings. 



Wheat bran 



M«at scrap ....".., 



Eggs 



Powdered milk. . . 

 Skimmed milk. . . 

 Bone (granulated) 



Bread 



Buckwheat 



Price 



$1.60 

 2.50 



3 .40 

 1.50 

 I. so 

 3.90 

 8.00 

 3 .00 

 .30 



3 . 30 

 3.00 



I -SO 



References for analyses : 



Feeding of Animals, Jordan. 



Feeds and Feeding, Henry. 



U, S. Bureau of Chemistry Bulletin No. 108. 



U. S. Farmers' Bulletin No. 112. 



U. S. Farmers' Bulletin No. 128 



Prof. George W. Cavanaugh of Cornell University. 



