FOURTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK — PART VII. 511 



COXCLUSIOXS AXD SU(.(iEST10X8. 



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 

 €ach pullet sixteen times her own weight in feed. It fills the third con- 

 dition 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 condi- 

 tion 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 

 pulets produce in eggs five times their own weight. 



oxE year's food supply for forty-five pullets. 



Three hundred pounds corn at % c. per pound $1,871/: 



Six hundred pounds oats at 1 c. per pound 6.00 



Four hundred pounds wheat at 1 c. per pound 4.00 



Three hundred pounds kaffir corn or sorghum at % c. per pound.. 1.87V2 



Four hundred pounds bran at % c. per pound 3.00 



Four hundred pounds clover at % c. per pound 3.00 



Three hundred pounds beef-scrap, meat-meal, dried blood, etc., at 



2 2-3 c. per pound 8.00 



Four hundred pounds grit and fine gravel at V2 c. per pound 2.00 



Three hundred pounds oyster-shell at % c. per pound 2.25 



Two hundred pounds cut bone at 2 c. per pound 4.00 



Total, three thousand six hundred pounds, at a total cost of $36.00, an 

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



SOME POULTRY' EXPERIMENTS. 



The following summary of the results of experiments at the Utah 

 Experiment Station contains some interesting information. 

 (Bulletin No. 67, Experiment Station. Logan, Utah. James Dryden, Poul- 

 try Manager.) 



SUMMARY. 



1. What is the most profitable age of the hen? Two pens of Leg-" 

 horns averaged 175 eggs per fowl during the first year. During the 

 second year the same fowls averaged 132i/^. and during the third, IIG""/: 

 eggs per fowl. The per cent profit on food was 188 the first year, 118 the 

 second year, and 97 1/^ the third. A test with two other pens of Leghorns 

 gave the following results: First year, number of eggs laid, 159; second 

 year, 119^^; per cent profit on food, first year, 184; second year, 99. 



2. What is the effect of exercise on egg production The results 

 for three years are in favor of feeding grain in a box against feeding it 

 in straw and making the hens scratch it out. One pen with all grain fed 

 in a box averaged 147 1/^ eggs per fowl per year for three years. A like 

 pen having the grain fed in a litter of straw averaged 132 eggs. During 

 the first year as pullets the results were in favor of the exercise, the pen 

 led in a box averaging 158 eggs per fowl, against 182 for the pen fed 



