‘When fe eding tinaded or Peon teua meal, we have never suc- 
ded i in getting ‘hens to eat readily, for more than a short time, 
much more nitrogenous ration than that here fed to pens 
and 6 except by partially starving or by adding meat to 
e ration; and we have been unable to keep hens alive 
a. meal than that given in these trials. At times it 
was necessary to add meat scraps to the rations, so that the hens 
_ during too short periods, less than that which usually prevailed. 
The results for the year, in periods of one month, calculated to 
the average for one fowl, are condensed in the following tabulated 
form. The ratio of albuminoids to carbohydrates given is the 
proportion of crude albuminoids to the sum of fats and N.-free — 
_" extract. The average ratio for the year of albuminoids to the sum 
: _ of carbohydrates with the weight of fats multiplied by 2} was for 
oe Pen 5-1 : 4.39, for Pen 6-1: 4.23, for Pen 7-1: 5.60, and for 
Pen 8-1 : 5.63. 
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