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Length of fattening period 



For the first four weeks of the fattening period the chicks made 

 a good average gain and at a reasonable cost per pound, while for 

 the last two weeks the gain was much less and was made at a 

 much greater cost per pound. (Table 13.) This was probably due 



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 experiment. 



in part to the fact that the chicks could no longer make satisfactory 

 use of the fattening ration. Some warrant for this assumption might 

 be found in the fact that in flocks 55 to 58, from which a comparatively 

 small percentage of the chicks had been marketed, the cost per pound 



