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The table shows that the food cost of the eggs produced by 

 the different pens during the year varied from 8.5 cents to 11.9 

 cents per dozen. Pen 2 leads in respect to low cost of eggs, 

 while pen 1 leads in respect to the cheapness of the ration. The 

 hopper fed pens, 2 and 9, produced eggs having a lower food 

 cost, and those laid by pen 1 cost only slightly more, than those 

 laid by pen 4 which received moistened mash. 



SUMMARY. 



1st. In a year's test with five pens of fowls the cost of food 

 varied from eighty-five cents to one dollar and four cents per 

 fowl per year, and averaged ninety cents per fowl for the one 

 hundred fowls in the experiment. 



2nd. The egg production varied from 81.4 eggs per hen 

 in the case of pen 1, fed principally upon corn, to 124.7 in the 

 case of pen 9, which received whole grain once per day, scattered 

 in litter, and dry mash and beef scrap ad libitum in a hopper. 



3rd. The food cost of the eggs during the year varied from 

 8.5 cents to 11.9 cents per dozen. 



4th. Two pens, hopper fed, produced eggs having a lower 

 food cost than the pen which received moistened mash, and in 

 this test there was apparently no benefit from the extra labor 

 involved in moistening the mash. 



AN OPEN FRONT LAYING HOUSE. 



In Bulletin No. 115 of this Station is given a description r 

 together with working drawings of the curtain front laying 

 house which was erected on the Station farm some years ago. 

 This house has continued to give, satisfaction in respect to th^ 

 comfort and health of the fowls. It has been found, however, 

 that the double wall on the north side of the house is an excel- 

 lent harbor for rats and this method of construction should be 

 avoided in building poultry houses. Recently another house has 

 been erected of a different type, and as it also seems to be v. ell 



