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production of eggs and the least cost occurred in pens 14 

 and 15, fed the following: 



4 parts corn meal 4 parts wheat bran 



2 parts meat meal 2 parts bone meal 



Cottonseed meal was used in three cases. Pens 20 and 

 22, fed four parts each of corn meal, wheat bran, and cotton- 

 seed meal, did very unequal work, one pen laying 225 eggs 

 and the other 378. 



(In Kansas, Bulletin 164, Kansas station, page 290.) 

 The following laying ration has been a success in feed- 

 ing White Leghorns and White Plymouth Rocks. Between 

 February 1 and November 1, 1909, one White Plymouth 

 Rock produced 201 eggs and another 196, at a cost for feed 

 of 90 cents each. The Leghorns averaged 166.1 eggs for the 

 same nine months, at a slightly less cost. Following are 

 the rations: 



GRAIN MASH 



10 parts wheat 6 parts wheat shorts 



10 parts corn 3 parts bran 



5 parts oats 6 parts corn meal 



5 parts beef scrap 

 1 part alfalfa meal 



Fattening ration for fowls. Fowls to be fattened should 

 be kept in a limited enclosure and given but little exercise, 

 and fed a fattening ration. Specialists place chickens in 

 crates and fatten them rapidly for three or four weeks. 

 Professor Jackson, formerly of the Pennsylvania station, re- 

 porting on fattening in Bulletin No. 107, says: 



"The common ration of corn meal is rarely as satisfactory as a 

 combination of grains. An excellent mixture is equal parts of finely 

 ground corn meal, buckwheat, and oats with the hulls removed. A 

 ration of one to two parts corn meal, one part middlings and five per cent 

 meat scrap may be used if it is not possible to secure the other grains. 

 It is important, whatever grains are used, that they be finely ground. 

 If this ration is mixed with sour milk, no animal food will be needed." 



It will be noticed that in all the above rations, corn, 

 wheat, oats, and wheat bran or middlings are the standard 

 foods used. Meat meal or beef scrap, skimmed milk, and 

 clover or alfalfa, are always desirable. In the far West, 



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