92 



HATCH EXPERIMENT STATION. 



[Jan. 



Eggs per Month {Number). 



Months. 



Cut Bone. 



December, 

 January, 

 February, 

 March, . 

 April, . 

 Totals, 



Animal Meal v. Cut Bone for Egg-production. 



Animal Meal. 



Cut Bone. 



Total number of eggs 



Hen days 



GroBB cost of foods, 



Cost per egg, 



Cost per hen day, 



Total weight of eggs (pounds), 

 Average weight per egg (ounces), . 



Eggs per hen day, 



Dry matter consumed per hen day (pounds), 

 Dry matter to produce 1 egg (pounds), . 



Nutritive ratio 



Bitters 



812 

 2,561 

 $8 45 

 $0 0104 

 f 0033 

 100.5 

 1.98 

 .32 

 .22 

 .695 

 1:4.6 

 22 



728 

 2,331 

 $8 29 

 $0 0114 

 $0 0035 

 88.7 

 1.95 

 .31 

 .23 

 .739 

 1:4.7 

 13 



A test of the eggs both raw and boiled was made by an 

 expert, who found the animal-meal eggs inferior, in color 

 and flavor, to the others. 



Conclusion. 

 In conclusion, then, I may quote the closing summary of 

 results made in my report upon a similar experiment last 

 year. "The advantage in this trial lies, then, clearly with 

 the animal meal as a food for egg-production. It has given 

 more eggs ^ of greater average weight and at considerably 

 less cost than the bone ; and it is, moreover, a more con- 

 venient food to use, as well as safer." In one respect only 

 is the animal meal apparently inferior to the bone this 



