78 EXPERIMENT .STATION RECORD. 



The results of the feeding tests are summarized in the following table : 

 Results of feeding tests with chickens. 



Lot. 



WITHOUT EXERCISE. 

 Old lions 



Late hatched pullets 



Earlj hatched pullets 



WITH EXERCISE. 



Early hatched pullets 



old hens 



Late hatched pullets 



Brahma-Leghorn pullets 



Light Brahma pullets 



Barred Plymouth Rouk pullets 



Cost of Average £%!£&. 

 food per weighl of "?,';;' '°' 

 dozen egjsper y |f r ^ 



eggs. 



Genu. Pounds. 



9.9 1.57 



4.9 1.411 



4.0 1.49 



4. 1 

 6.9 

 5.0 

 6. 1 

 6.6 

 0.4 



1.42 

 1.52 

 1. 39 

 1.52 

 1.63 

 1.48 



fowl. 



Pounds. 

 8.4 

 15.98 

 19. 51 



21.46 

 13. 54 

 17.42 

 18.39 

 20. 03 

 9.8 



The principal conclusions reached were the following: The profit in 

 feeding young hens or pullets w;is six times as great as in the case of 

 hens three or four years old. Early hatched Leghorn pullets gave better 

 results than those hatched later. The chickens which had exercise 

 consumed more food and produced more eggs at less cost than those 

 which had no exercise. Exercise had no apparent effect ou the weight 

 of the chickens. However, the eggs produced by the chickens having 

 no exercise weighed 3 per cent more than those produced by the chick- 

 ens having exercise. The eggs of the Leghorn hens weighed more 

 than those of the Leghorn pullets, and those of the Light Brahma pul- 

 lets more than those of the Leghorn pullets. The eggs of the. Barred 

 Plymouth Rock pullets averaged about the same as those of the Leg- 

 horn pullets. In the author's opinion, with intelligent care and feeding 

 the average capacity of a Leghorn pullet is 200 eggs per year. No 

 advantage was observed in crossing Brahmas and Leghorns. 



A trial of two different incubators was made. This included a com- 

 parison of the relative fertility of old, medium, and fresh eggs of the 

 different lots of chickens mentioned above. The data were not regarded 

 as sufficient for drawing definite deductions concerning the incubators. 

 Exercise apparently reduced the percentage of fertility of the eggs. 

 The percentage of fertility was highest with eggs from early hatched 

 pullets and lowest with eggs from old hens, though the results are 

 not regarded as conclusive. The fertility of eggs averaging live 

 days' old was 300 per cent greater than eggs averaging twenty-two 

 days' old. 



The bread of Italian peasants, R. Castelani {Ann. Ig. Sper., n. ser., 6 (1S96), No. 

 1, pp. 89-110). — The composition is reported of bread made from wheat, corn, rye, 

 barley, oats, millet, rice, legumes, potatoes, acorns, and chestnuts. These materials 

 were used alone or in different combinations. The samples of bread were gathered 

 from different provinces. 



