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quired 543 lbs of the ration of wheat alone, or 562 lbs of the ration wheat 

 + butcher's offal. 



A ration of wheat 10 parts, butcher's offal one part produced more 

 rapid increase of liv^e weight than a ration of wheat 5 parts, maize 5 parts 

 and butcher's offal i part, or a ration of maize 10 parts, butcher's offal 

 1 part. Furthermore, the increase of live weight was more economical. 

 In a similar way, the ration 5 parts of wheat, 5 of maize and 1 of butcher's 

 offal was more effective than the ration 10 parts of maize and i of butcher's 

 offal. 



469 lbs of the ration wheat + butcher's offal produced 100 lbs increase 

 of live weight at the rate of 1.52 lbs per head per day. 458 lbs of the 

 ration wheat + maize + butcher's offal were needed to produce 100 lbs 

 increase of live weight at the rate of 1.44 lbs per head per day. Finally, 

 498 lbs of the ration maize butcher's offal were needed to produce 100 lbs 

 of live weight at the rate of 1.27 lbs per head per day. 



1000 - Egg-laying Competition in Australia. — i. hart a.. Results of the 5th Egg-iaj'ing 



Competition held in the State of Victoria, Australia, in 1915-1916 (i), in The Journal of 

 the Department of Ai^riculture of Victoria, Vol. XIV, Part 6, pp. 329-340, ^8 fig. Melbourne, 

 Jtme 1 91 6. — II. Thompson D. S., Results of the 4th Egg-laying Competition held at the 

 Grafton Experiment Farm, New South Wales, in The Ai^ricuUural Gazette of New South 

 Wales, Vol. XXVII, Part 6, pp. 433-437. Sydney, June 191 6. 



I. — One year competition (April 1915-April 1916) held at the Burnley 

 School of Horticulture, in which 570 hens took part, in groups of 6, divided 

 into 3 sections : i) light breeds, wet fed (56 groups) ; 2) light breeds, dry fed 

 (19 groups) ; 3) heavy breeds, wet fed (20 groups). The wet fed hens were, 

 in the morning, given a mash consisting of crtished oats, sharps, pea meal, 

 oat shorts and chopped liver ; at noon, the same mash mixed with lucerne 

 and chopped beetroots ; in the evening, a mixture of grain. The dry fed 

 hens received a ration consisting of about the same constituents, but sim- 

 ply mixed together and not reduced to a mash. The difference between 

 the gx-oups subjected to the two forms of feeding was slight, and far less than 

 in the preceding year. This proves that dry feeding, provided it is pro- 

 perly constituted and well balanced, is quite as suitable as wet feeding, 

 and that the selection of the feeding should therefore be according to the 

 conditions of the locaht}-. 



The total number of eggs laid during the 3^ear by the 570 hens (20 died 

 before the end of the competition and were not replaced) was 125 119, of 

 which 75 900, or about 226 per hen, were furnished by the 336 hens of the 

 1st section. The 114 hens of the 2nd section laid 25 164 eggs, or an average 

 of 200.7 per hen. 



The 120 heavy breed hens of the 3rd section laid 24 055 egs, or an aver- 

 age of 200.5 per hen. 



The light breeds were exclusively represented by the White I.,eghorn ; 

 the heavy breeds by the Black Orpington, Rhode Island Red, Faveroile, 

 Silver Wyandotte, White Wyandotte, and White Orpington. 



(i) .See iilso : li . \>)\^, Xo. 945. (Zu/.) 



