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EXPERIMENT STATION RECORD. 



"The present experiment shows that only 83.6 per cent as much pork was pro- 

 duced with oat feed as with an equal weight of corn meal, or 100 lbs. of corn meal 

 were equal to 120 lbs. of oat feed. 



" With corn meal at $18 per ton, oat feed at $16 per ton, and dressed pork at 5 cts. 

 per pound, skim milk returned % ct. per quart, or 15.6 cts. per 100 lbs. in case of 

 the entire lot of 6 pigs. 



"With the same price for grain, and skim milk reckoned at £ ct. per quart, live 

 weight would cost 3.34 cts. and dressed weight 4.3 cts. per pound." 



Poultry experiments, W. P. Brooks (Massachusetts Hatch Sta.Rpt. 

 1896, pp. 46-49). — Experiments were made to test the effect upon egg 

 production of condition powder and the comparative value of dry 

 animal meal and cut fresh bone for egg production. 



.Effect of condition powder upon egg production (pp. 146-148). — This 

 test, which began February 9 and lasted 79 clays, was made with 2 lots 

 of fowls, each consisting of 3 Barred Plymouth Rock hens, 8 Light 

 Brahma hens, 6 Light Brahma pullets, and 2 Wyandotte-Light Brahma 

 pullets. One hen in each lot died before the end of the test. The 

 hens were If years old at the time the test began. Each lot occupied a 

 separate house with a scratching shed and room for nesting and roost- 

 ing. They had access at all times to fresh water and were supplied 

 with grit. Both lots were fed whole wheat, whole oats, wheat bran, 

 wheat middlings, ground clover, new-process linseed meal, animal 

 meal, soy-bean meal, and cut bones. The bran, middlings, ground 

 clover, and bones were given in the form of a mash in the morning. 

 The grains were scattered in the straw in the scratching shed twice a 

 day. The nutritive value of the ration was 1:4.5. Lot 1 was given 

 with the mash a commercial condition powder according to the direc- 

 tions furnished with it. The composition of the feed is reported. The 

 results of the test are shown in the following table : 



Eesults of feeding poultry with and without condition powder. 



Food con 

 sunied. 



Cost of 



food per 



day per 



fowl. 



Number i Drymat- 

 of eggs ter in food 

 produced, per egg. 



Cost of 

 food per 



Lot 1 (condition powder) . 

 Lot2 



Pounds. 

 291.6 

 289.5 



Cent. 

 0.23 

 .23 



163 

 195 



Pounds. 

 1.61 

 1.33 



Centi. 



2.1 

 1.8 



The cost of the condition powder is not included in the above esti- 

 mate It amounted to $1, and would have increased the cost per egg 

 for lot 1 to 2.7 cts. 



All the fowls appeared in good condition at the end of the test. The 

 hens receiving no condition powder began to lay several days before 

 those receiving it. There was no material difference in the size or 

 appearance of the eggs from the 2 lots. The lot receiving condition 

 powder began to molt before the other lot. The test will be repeated. 



Animal meal vs. cut bone for egg production (pp. 148, 149). — This test 



