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HATCH EXPERIMENT STATION. 



[Jan. 



1. Effect of Condition Powder upon Egg-production. 



Each coop contained twenty pullets at the beginning of 

 the experiment ; the fowls in the no condition-powder coop 

 weighing 103 pounds, and having laid, November 18 to 

 December 12, 46 eggs ; the fowls in the condition-powder 

 coop weighing 97 pounds, and having laid 14 eggs. The 

 rations of the two lots of fowls were the same, except to 

 the morning mash of one lot was added condition powder 

 to the full amount recommended by makers; viz., 3 scoops 

 (provided for measuring) heaping full. This amount of 

 condition powder was enough to make the mash several 

 shades darker than the one without it, and to impart a 

 strong odor. Being mixed sometimes in the room where 

 milk was standing, it imparted a flavor to butter made there- 

 from which was recognized by our expert butter maker, who 

 knew nothing concerning its use, and who worked in rooms 

 a quarter of a mile distant, to which the milk was taken. 

 The pen receiving the powder consumed during the winter 

 four two-pound cans of it, costing at retail $4. 



Both lots of fowls were healthy throughout the entire 

 test. Two fowls were stolen from the lot receiving no 

 condition powders on the night of March 27. One soft- 

 shelled egg was laid by a fowl receiving condition powder. 

 The tables give all details necessary to a comparison of the 

 results : — 



Foods consumed, Condition-powder Experiment. 



Kinds of Food. 



Amount. 



Condition 

 Powder. 



No Condition 

 Powder. 



Wheat, . 

 Oats, 

 Bran, 

 Middlings 

 Gluten feed, 

 Animal meal, 

 Clover, 

 Cabbage, . 



Lbs. oz. 

 269 



155 



44 



44 



44 



52 



43 



15 15 



Lbs. oz. 

 250 



152 

 44 

 44 

 44 

 52 

 44 

 15 



