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affect the Leghorns tliau the cochins. The pen of Cochins, also, 

 which layed the better is compared with the pen of Leghorns which 

 gave the poorer egg yield. 



The pen of Cochins had on the average for the year 8.47 pounds 

 of dry substance in the food for each pound of eggs laid while the 

 Leghorns required only 6.33 pounds of food. The best rate of pro- 

 duction for any period made by the Cochins was one pound of eggs 

 for every 4-.C)l pounds of water.-free food, and the best for any period 

 made by the Leghorns was one pound of eggs for 3.29 pounds of 

 food. The average cost per pound of eggs laid by the Cochins was 

 10.79 cents and of those laid by the Leghorns 7.84 cents, the food 

 cost of the production being over 3T.6 per cent, greater for the 

 Cochins. Although the egg yield was somewhat less from the 

 Cochins than from the Leghorns, a greater proportion of the total 

 product was obtained at the season when prices were better, so that 

 the average market value of the product for the year was greater 

 with the Cochins and the market value per dozen about 11.4 per cent, 

 hiffher. The excess of market value of eggs over the cost of food 

 was 18.6 per cent, for the Cochins and 42.4 per cent, for the Leghorns. 

 For the production of eggs only, — considering the cost of 

 growing or the purchase price per fowl for two lots of pullets alike 

 and the same as their market value, when hens, at the end of the 

 year, — the smaller fowls would show the greater profit over the 

 cost of food. But taking into consideration the cost of grow- 

 ing and the poultry value of the fowls at the end of the year, 

 the relation of profit would be different. The average net cost 

 per Leghorn pullet, grown in the ordinary way, was a little over 

 fourteen cents at the beginning of this feeding trial. The cost of 

 eggs for hatching and of food for sitting hens made the average 

 cost of each chick when hatched 2.15 cents. The average cost of 

 food, including the cost of hatching, to grow one pullet and one 

 cockerel (the sexes as a rule average about equal in number) until 

 the time of separating them was 23.84 cents. The average whole- 

 sale market value per cockerel was 24.72 cents. Deducting the 

 market value of the cockerel and adding the cost of food per pullet 

 from the time of separating the sexes until i^ovember 23d, made 

 the net cost per pullet under the ordinary practical farm conditions 

 14.3 cents. The cost of food for the year made the average net 

 outlay per hen 97 cents. The market value of eggs added to the 

 poultry value per hen, — three and one-fourth pounds average live 



