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Pen 2. This pen was hopper fed with corn, beef scrap, and 

 a mixture of equal parts by weight of corn meal, wheat bran, 

 and ground oats. For the first month the corn, beef scrap and 

 ground feed was supplied ad libitum, but as the egg production 

 was very unsatisfactory with a supply of corn constantly before 

 the fowls, the practice was adopted for the remainder of the 

 year of closing the corn orifice early in the morning and open- 

 ing it again at night when picking up eggs. The fowls in this 

 pen, then, had access to beef scrap and ground grain during the 

 day, and to shelled corn for a short time at night and morning. 

 Three hens died in this pen, one from prolapsus of the oviduct, 

 one was crop bound and the other died from some undetermined 

 cause. 



Pen 3. This pen was hopper-fed with (1) a mixture of 

 equal parts by weight of corn, wheat, and oats; (2) beef scrap; 

 and (3) a mixture of equal parts by weight of corn meal, ground 

 oats and wheat bran. As the corn, wheat and oats were mixed 

 together it was thought that it would be possible to make the 

 fowls eat the oats as well as the wheat and corn. It was found 

 in practice, however, that after the oats had accuinulted to a 

 certain extent in the trough of the self-feeder they were thrown 

 out by the fowls and some unavoidably wasted, thus making the 

 recorded food consumption for this pen abnormally high. There 

 was no mortality. 



Pen 4. This pen of fowls was fed a moistened mash in the 

 morning consisting of a mixture of corn meal, wheat bran, 

 ground oats and beef scrap. Toward evening a mixture of 

 whole grain was scattered in the litter covering the floor of the 

 house. There were no deaths. 



Pen 9. This flock was hopper fed with a mixture of equal 

 parts by weight of corn meal, wheat bran and ground oats. In 

 another compartment of the hopper beef scrap was supplied. 

 Once per day a mixture of whole grain was scattered about in 

 the litter so as to induce the hens to take exercise. Two hens 

 died, the cause of death was not determined. 



The fowls in this test were confined to the houses and runs 

 described in former bulletins, the houses being about ten feet 



