Ration No. 2 is very good. It would work very well in cold weather, and yet 

 produce fat on the birds. In warm weather a ration like this is to be discouraged. 



Ration No. 3 is very good. 



Ration No. 4 has given good results wherever used. 



Ration No. 5 is that which is used by the fattening-station at Cowichau. Stock 

 to be fattened in colder climates would fatten at a cheaper cost on Rations 1 and 2. 

 For warm seasons or that which is experienced for about nine months out of the 

 year in that district, the ration works to good advantage. 



Some experiments have been conducted by feeding dry ground grain to the birds 

 in the manner that the wet mash would be fed when fattening. They were also 

 given access to drinking-water as suited themselves. It was observed that the birds 

 seemed to choke when eating the dry grain. Naturally, they would become ravenous 

 when fed in this way, and would therefore try to eat too much at a time. Though 

 only conducted twice, conclusions were to the effect that this was not a profitable 

 method of fattening. An experiment was also conducted by the writer, in which 

 twelve males were put in a pen 8 by 10 feet and fed whole grain, with milk to drink, 

 for three weeks' time. The result was that the texture of the flesh was not improved 



A neatly packed box of dressed poultry. 



in any way, but the stock weighed more at the end of the period of fattening than 

 when put in. The results tended to prove that more profit would be obtained from 

 stock fed in this way than when marketed directly from the range. 



CAPONIZING. 



We do not think that caponization is a profitable practice to the small producer, 

 under the present market conditions. The same amount of time used by the small 

 producer in fattening will pay better returns. 



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