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In the later bulletin reporting on the use of beef scraps as com- 

 pared with ground fresh meat and bone and milk albumen as sources 

 of protein for laying hens, the following summary is given: ''More 

 eggs were laid by fowls when fed beef scraps than when they received 

 either ground fresh meat and bone or milk albumen. The health of 

 the fowls remained uniformly good throughout the test." * * * 



Stewart & Atwoodf report the results of a comparison of beef 

 scraps, ground fresh meat and bone and milk albumen as sources of 

 protein for laying hens. There were two trials. More eggs were 

 laid by the fowls when fed beef scraps than when they received 

 either ground fresh meat and bone or milk albumen. In an earlier 

 trial in the West Virginia Experiment Station, in which ground fresh 

 meat and bone were compared with meat meal, the former gave the 

 greater number of eggs, but the meat meal was evidently of very 

 inferior quality. The fowls receiving it were made sick and a num- 

 ber died. 



It will be noted that the results of the different West Virginia 

 experiments were not in exact agreement. The same is true concern- 

 ing our own experiments. Two gave results slightly favorable to the 

 bone in number of eggs : one a similar result in favor of the animal 

 meal and two — these having been the ones most perfectly carried out 

 — gave results decidedly favorable to the animal meal. We found 

 the latter, as stated, to be the safer feed. In one respect only was 

 the animal meal apparently inferior to the bone, namely: the fowls 

 getting it weighed less at the close of the experiment. This inferi- 

 ority in weight was, however, far more than covered in our best ex- 

 periments by the greater value of eggs produced. The writer 

 believes the following conclusion is warranted. Some form of dry ani- 

 mal food is likely to prove a safer and more satisfactory food for egg 

 production and to be cheaper than cut fresh bone. 



VI. Morning vs. Evening Mash. 



The object in view in these experiments, one of which was carried 

 out in the winter and the other in the summer was to test the relative 

 merits of feeding the mash in the ration in the morning as compared 

 with feeding it in the evening. The feeds used in the two pens of 

 fowls were of the same kinds and it was the object aimed at to give 

 to each lot of fowls as much food as would be readily consumed. The 



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