Seven Methods of Feeding Youxc, Chickens. 



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per chick, nearly twice what it should have been for dry-picking. 

 Most of the chicks were scald-picked, and for tha"; reason not of the 

 highest grade market stock. Also, the chicks were smaller than the 

 market demands at this season. The chicks that weie sold after Octo- 

 ber first brought better prices than those sent previously, in spite of 

 the fact that they were inferior in quality. These cond.tions influenced 

 to quite a degree the expenses and returns of marketing, but not 

 sufficiently to change the financial loss of the experiment to a profit. 



Average Weight per Chick, Dry Matter per Chick in Food Consumed, 

 Average Gain in Weight, and Average Cost for Food anl Labor, for 

 Each Week to Twelve Weeks Old 



.Average weight per chick 



-Dry matter in food consumed per chick for each week 



-I- -I- 4- -I- -I- Average weekly cost per chick 

 —Average weekly gain per chick 



Diagram A. — As the chicks grew larger, the average food consumption increased, as 

 did also the weekly cost per chick. The average weekly gain was only slightly 

 increased for the first six weeks, but showed a sudden rise at the beginning of the 

 fattening period. The weekly gain decreased after the fourth week of fattening 



Cost of rearing chicks. (See Table 24) 



The cost of rearing a chick to six weeks averaged $0,098 for all flocks 

 or $g.8o per 100 chicks. The greatest cost per chick was in the cracked- 

 grain ration flock, $0,104, and the least in the variety ration flock, 



