74 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



grain, and we did not get any difference to speak of in the 

 growth of the chickens or in the amount of feed consumed, but 

 we were so far away from the market that we had to buy three 

 times as much, so it was not a profitable plan to import that. 

 Now down here we are close to the manufacturers, who are 

 making these foods, I cannot say in regard to that, but that 

 was our result in the state of Utah where we had to haul grain 

 two thousand miles. 



There are a number of interesting experiments that have 

 been carried on from time to time. A gentleman down in the 

 audience asked about our hopper method of feeding. We tried 

 that under a number of different conditions, but in one case we 

 used the grain in a hopper, and fed wet mash, grain, beef-scrap 

 and wet mash, while a corresponding pen had a dry mash, and 

 we could not see any difference except it took more labor to 

 mix up the wet mash. In another instance we put the grain 

 and mash and beef-scrap in the hopper, and in another pen we 

 used the grain in the litter entirely, and fed the wet mash, and 

 used green cut bone. It was done simply to compare methods 

 of feeding, and we found that while we got more eggs from 

 the hopper method it cost considerable more to produce them. 



I do not want to take up too much of your time as it is get- 

 ting quite late. If anybody has questions to ask, I would be 

 pleased to do what I can to answer them? 



Question. Did the skim-milk take the place of the beef- 

 scrap ? 



Mr. BoLTE. To a certain extent. Skim-milk does not 

 have much fat in it, but it has quite a large percentage of pro- 

 tein when we come to consider the solid contents. A chicken 

 cannot take enough skim-milk to replace beef-scrap, as a rule, 

 but it is a very valuable addition to the ration unless you can 

 get more for it in some other way. Of course, when your milk 

 is selling for four or five cents a quart, you cannot afford to 

 feed it to chickens, because you cannot count on very much 

 over twenty cents per hundred on them, but that is the way we 

 generally calculate its value. 



Question. Do you think beef-scrap is better than meal? 



