Seven Methods of Feeding Young Chickens. 



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of a pound, or of one and one-half pounds each, to be served whole 

 in the former case as a squab broiler, or in halves in the latter instance. 



VI. GRAXD SUMMARY FOR TWELVE WEEKS EXPERIMENTS 

 Table 23. — SUiMMARv for Twelve Weeks 



Mortality 



The total mortality of all flocks for the twelve weeks was 109 chicks, 

 about 14 per cent of the chicks put into the experiment. (Fig. 190.) 



A Comparison of Total Mortality for Twelve Weeks 



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 Crgra/r? X 37Wmmammk /J.4 



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Fig. 190. — The cracked- grain ration flock showed the highest and the variety ration 

 flock the lowest mortality jor twelve weeks. (Based on Tables 4 and 12) 



The cost of food and labor per pound gain in weight was $0,119, ^^^ 

 per pound weight was $0,109. The average gain per chick was 1.07 1 



