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which indicates that the dry feed is not equally as palatable as the 

 properly mixed moist mash and some parties who have compared 

 the two methods have reported the fowls lay rather"more eggs when 

 receiving the mash, but such parties have at the same time indicated 

 their belief in the dry meal system on account of the reduced labor. 

 The two systems are now under comparison in the Experiment Sta- 

 tion at Amherst, but the experiment is not sufficiently advanced to 

 justify comment based upon our results. 



" Early in the morning for each loo hens, 4 

 ;Maine Method of quarts of screened cracked corn* are scattered 

 Feeding. on the litter, which is 6 or 8 inches deep on the 



floor. This is not mixed into the litter, for the 

 straw is dry and light and enough of the grain is hidden so the birds 

 ■commence scratching for it almost immediately. At 10 o'clock they 

 are fed in the same way, 2 quarts of wheat and 2 quarts" of oats. 

 This is all of the regular feeding that is done. 



Along one side of the room is the feed trough, with its slatted 

 front. In it is kept a supply of dry meals mixed together. This 

 dry meal mixture is composed of the following materials, 200 pounds 

 good wheat bran, 100 pounds corn meal, 100 pounds middlings, 100 

 pounds gluten meal or brewers' grain, 100 pounds linseed meal, and 

 JOG pounds beef scrap. * * * About 5 pounds of clover hay cut 

 into }^2-inch lengths is fed dry daily to each 1 00 birds in winter." * * 

 "The average amounts of the materials eaten by each hen during 

 the last year are about as follows : ..■ 



Grain and the meal mixture, 90.0 pounds. 



Oyster shell, 4.0 pounds. 



Dry cracked bone, 2.4 pounds. 



Grit, 2.0 pounds. 



Charcoal, • 2.4 pounds. 



Clover, 1 0.0 pounds. 



These materialscost about $1.45. 

 The hens averaged laying 144 eggs each." 



* "Whole corn will be used hereafter at the Station. See comparison of whole corn and 

 ■ cracked corn on pages 180 and following." 



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