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lot were weighed weekly. The fowls were all weighed once 

 each month. 



No male birds were kept in any of the pens in the winter 

 experiments, nor, indeed, in any except where the influence 

 of the cock was the subject of experiment. Sitters, except 

 those taken out, al)ove alluded to, were confined in a coop 

 until broken up, being meanwhile fed like their mates. 



The prices per hundred weight for foods, upon which 

 financial calculations are based, are shown below : — 



Wheat, $1 75 



Oats, 1 00 



Wheat bran, 60 



Wheat middlings, 75 



Gluten feed, 2 00 



Animal meal, 2 00 



Cut clover rowen, 1 50 



Cabbage, 25 



Cut bone, 2 00 



Gluten meal, 80 



Corn meal, 85 



Corn, 85 



Composition of Foods {Per Cent.). 



