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during the first three weeks. This was due to the more expensive 

 character of the food and to the greater amount of labor necessary 

 in its preparation. (For comparison of flocks as to total cost of food, 

 see Figs. 175 and 176.) 



Total Cost pi:r Flock for Food Consumed During Six Weeks of Feeding 



r/ock\ 

 Cr ^/-am — 56 



dry mosfi- 3i 



tVet /vash\ r, 

 Pow'ifmM -^^ 



5k,m m/k] ^P 



^i^eJ3.43 



Fig. 175. — The wet-mash and the variety ration flocks cost more per flock for food 

 during the six weeks of feeding than the flocks having the dry-grain rations. The 

 former flocks contained larger numbers of chicks. {Based on Table 11) 



Cost of labor 



For the first three weeks, as there was little mortality among the chicks, 

 the cost of labor (care and feeding) per 100 chicks was practically 

 alike in the flocks having the dry feeding, and amounted to $0.68. 

 The wet mash cost $0.86 and the variety ration $0.88 per 100 chicks. 

 For six weeks, the dry-grain rations cost $1.32 to $1.50, the wet-mash 

 rations $1.55 and $1.61, and the variety ration $1.46, for labor per 

 100 chicks. Labor in this case was reckoned at 20 cents per hour. 



Table 8. — Cost of Labor in Care and Feeding per 100 Chicks 



All 

 flocks 



First three weeks. 

 Fcir six weeks. . . . 



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Cost of labor par 100 chicks for first six weeks: 



Greatest — Flock 60 — Wet mash, skimmed milk — $1.61, 

 Least — Flock 57 — Cracked grain, dry mash — $132. 



