THE FEEDING OF POULTRY 371 



(In North Carolina, Bulletin 211, North Carolina station, page 64.) 



In an experiment extending from December to May, 

 different rations were fed to pens of 10 hens each. The 

 largest 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 



Cotton-seed 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 feeding 

 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 of the Pennsylvania station, reporting 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 



