5° 



morning mash was always given as soon after light as possible, the 

 evening mash just before dark. About twice a week a small cabbage 

 was given to each lot of fowls in addition to customary grain and 

 animal foods. The health of the fowls under both systems of feed- 

 ing was in general good, although there were a few losses, two on the 

 morning mash ; three on the evening mash. These losses were ap- 

 parently not connected with the system of feeding followed. The 

 dry grains used in these experiments included corn, wheat and millet 

 in the winter test: corn and oats in the summer test. The mash in 

 the winter test was made up in the proportion of about one part cut 

 clover rowen, two parts each bran and beef scraps and three parts 

 corn meal. In the summer test the proportions were about one part 

 beef scraps and one and a half parts each wheat bran, middlings and 

 corn meal. During the summer test, lawn clippings replaced the cut 

 clover rowen and cabbages used in the winter. 



Eggs were produced at the following rates per hundred hens daily : 



Morning Mash. Evening Mash. 

 In the winter test, 25 24 



" " summer, test, 34 S3 



• The differences are too small to be regarded as significant. One 

 of the most striking results of the experiments was the great differ- 

 ence in the relative amounts of droppings voided during the night 

 under the two systems of feeding. The amount of droppings voided 

 during the night by the fowls receiving the evening mash was very 

 much greater than the amount voided by the other lot of fowls. 

 Weights were taken on a number of different occasions with the 

 results shown below. 



It will be noticed that the weight of droppings voided during the 

 night by the fowls receiving evening mash during the period of 

 nearly seven days and nights during which these weights were taken 

 is practically double the weight of the droppings of the other fowls. 



