REPORT OF THE First AssIsTANT OF THE ~ 
Feepinc Taste Fow.s. 
Sixteen fowls, eight capons and eight cockerels were fed for — 
several months to obtain data in regard to meat production. Four _ 
pens were used, one containing four Buff Cochin capons and mi 
fi another four Buff Cochin cockerels of the same age; one contain- 
pe ing four Light Brahma capons and the other four Light Brahma _ 
S cockerels of the same age. ie 
; Among one of two small lots of Light Brahma cockerels 
ine purchased, roup appeared a short time after their arrival, and, — 
is although those first showing disease were removed, it appeared __ 
among the others shortly after the experiment was begun. ~ 
; The fowls although apparently “recovered,” after treatment 
with carbolic acid, sulphite of soda, iodine, quinine, etc., ceased’ 
for a long time to make any growth, although still immature and 
with a fair appetite, and none of them regained vigor enough to 
show any returns for the food, and the only growth was made 
during the first six weeks before the disease was very prominent. 
Although the Buff Cochins were in the best of condition and not — 
affected until put in the same building with the others, they 
suffered more from the disease, which with them appeared among 
the capons first. While some of the Light Brahma capons 
recovered eventually, enough to reach the weight of ten and eleven 
pounds, they were never able to make a profitable growth, and the 
cockerels that survived only attained a lesser weight. This winter 
was apparently a very favorable season for roup and the allied 
diseases, but they have never appeared among fowls here except 
when brought with purchased stock ; and it is believed that the 
exemption is largely due to the fact that the pens are always kept 
dry and dusty and the roosting places protected above, below, and 
on three sides by a tight. partition separate from the walls of the _ 
building. 
The results obtained from these feeding pens for three periods, 
during only one of which any reasonable gains were made, 
although the food consumed per fowl during the others was 
greater, are given in the following table. 
The conditions of this feeding trial were so unfavorable thata 
discussion of the foods or the details of feeding would be 
unnecessary : om 
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