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each pound of eggs was 10.79 cents, and the cost per dozen was 

 15.70 cents. The average wholesale market vahie of eggs laid was 

 121.5G cents. 



Although all the pens were fed liberally, and had all that was 

 needed to satisfy the appetite, the two pens fed the moistened 

 ground grain were satisfied with a lesser amount of dry substance 

 in the food than the two corresponding pens. The cost of the 

 ration containing the ground grain was also less. With the Leg- 

 horns the cost of the whole grain ration was 14.7 per cent, the 

 greater and with the Cochins 1-1.4 per cent, the greater. 



The egg yields for the pens of Leghorns were practically alike, 

 but the average live weight was nearly all the time greater for the 

 pen having the whole grain, except at the start, when the average 

 weights were equal. This fairly constant difference in weight, 

 however, was not enongli to correspond to the difference in amount 

 of dry matter in the food eaten, and as it was the more efficient, the 

 indications were that the ground grain ration was more fully 

 digested than that of whole grain. 



By pen No. 1 one pound of eggs was produced for every 5.31 

 pound of water-free substance in the food on the average for the 

 year, and by pen No. 2 one pound of eggs for 6.33 pounds of water- 

 free substance in the food. For eight weeks during the best ])art 

 of the laying season one pound of eggs was obtained from pen No. 1 

 for every 2.72 pounds of water-free food, and, during the same time, 

 one pound from pen No. 2 for every 3.57 pounds of water-free 

 food. During 119 days, pen No. 1 produced eggs at the rate of one 

 pound for every 3.12 pounds of water-free food consumed, and pen 

 No. 2 at the rate of one pound for every 3.67 pounds of water-free 

 food. There were small losses in live weight with each pen during 

 these periods — about equal in amount. For the whole year, how- 

 ever, and during shorter periods when the egg yield was greatest, 

 pen No. 1 produced eggs from less food than did pen No. 2. The 

 market value of eggs for the year from pen No. 1 exceeded the cost 

 of food by 61.9 per cent., and the value of eggs from pen No. 2 

 exceeded the cost of food by 42.4 per cent. 



With the Cochins, pen No. 3, having the ground grain, gave 

 much the poorer egg yield. The egg production for either pen, 

 however, was so much below what is possible for the same con- 

 sumption of fo-^d with the smaller breeds that the relation of food 

 eaten to the weight of egg* produced by these two pens is a doubt. 

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