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1. The corn rations have given the greater number of eggs in 

 more than one-half the experiments. 



2. The average number of eggs per hundred hens daily has been 

 for the wheat rations, 355^, for the corn rations, 36^. 



3. The food cost per egg as the average of 36 experiments has 

 been for the wheat rations, 1.05 cents, for the corn rations, .83 cents. 



4. The average cost of feeding 100 hens daily has been for the 

 wheat rations, 32 cents, for the corn rations, 27 cents. 



5. Fowls receiving corn rations have attained and maintained a 

 higher average weight. Their market value at the conclusion of the 

 experiments, therefore, has been greater than that of the fowls fed 

 on the wheat rations. 



6. Fowls receiving the corn rations have on the average molted 

 somewhat earlier and better than those receiving the wheat rations. 



Wheeler* in comparing a corn meal ration with 



Results of Other a nitrogenous ration reports the following re- 



Investigators. suits : " The product of eggs from the hens 



having the corn meal ration was over 28 per 

 cent more in number, and in weight over 24 per cent greater than 

 from those having the more nitrogenous ration. With fowls of the 

 smaller breeds which are considerably better layers, the number of 

 eggs was over 57 per cent higher, and the weight about 49 per cent 

 greater from those fed the less nitrogenous ration." He reports that 

 the health of the fowls was rather better on the more nitrogenous ration. 

 Ricef summarizes results obtained in comparing a nitrogenous 

 (narrow) with a carbonaceous (wide) ration as follows : " It will be 

 seen that while both lots of hens lost weight during the experiment, 

 the loss was slightly greater with those fed nitrogenous food, but 

 these produced by far the most eggs. The chickens fed nitrogenous 

 food just about doubled in weight while those fed carbonaceous 

 food only added about one-third to their weight.'' The rations 

 above compared had nutritive ratios of i to 3.1 and 1 to 7.8 respec- 

 tively, the latter consisting almost entirely of corn meal. This 

 experiment was carried on with but two pens of five fowls each, for 

 the test of egg production. The number of chickens compared was 

 the same. The feeds used in the above experiment were as follows : 

 for the narrow ration, one-third wheat bran, one-third wheat shorts, 

 one-third cotten seed meal, two parts skim milk; for the wide ration, 

 cracked corn and corn meal dough. 



*Mew York Station Bulletin 129. New Series. 

 tN'ew Vork Cornell .Station Bulletin No. 25. 



