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CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS. 



Now, here is the table of rations we suggest for feeding forty-five 

 pullets 360 days. It fills the first condition of our text in that it gives 

 each pullet sixteen times her own weight in feed. It fills the third condi- 

 tion of our text in that it can be obtained in most sections of the country 

 at a cost of one cent per pound. It also fills the fourth condition of our 

 text in that the cost of her feed is only one-sixth the value of her egg 

 product. Do not condemn it until you have made an honest effort to 

 realize the third condition of our text, namely : to make your pullets pro- 

 duce in eggs five times their own weight. 



ONE year's food SUPPLY FOR 45 PULLETS. 



per pound 



Six hundred pounds oats, at Ic. per pound 



Four hundred pounds wheat, at Ic. per pound 



Three hundred pounds KaflBr corn or sorghum, at %c. per pound 



Four hundred pounds bran, at ^ic. per pound 



Four hundred pounds clover, at %c. per pound 



Three hundred pounds beef -scrap, meat-meal, dried blood, etc., at 2%c. per pound 



Four hundred pounds grit and fine gravel, at %c. per pound 



Three hundred pounds oyster-shell, at %c. per pound 



Two hundred pounds cut bone, at 2c. per pound 



Total three thousand six hundred pounds, at a total cost of j $36 00 



An average of eighty pounds of feed per hen, at a cost of eighty cents. 



SILOS AND ENSILAGE. 



(By Euclid N. Cobb, Monmouth, Illinois.) 



My two week's work among the counties of Missouri the past fall 

 were very pleasant weeks indeed. I met many old friends and I trust 

 made manv new ones. When Mr. Ellis wrote me asking me to assist 

 in institute work he asked me to give silos and ensilage first place as 

 subjects to bring before the dairymen and stock breeders of the State. 

 This I was very glad to do, as I had been a resident of the State for 

 some years and am well posted on the needs of the Missouri farmer, at 

 least on how to get the greatest food value from the staple crop, corn. 

 I am well aware that the bulk of the corn crop over the State as handled 

 is -fully one-half wasted, and the other half so fed that the full feeding' 

 value is not realized. 



