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on rich protein foods throughout the year, and consequently 

 we have the 200-egg hen. 



In the great corn-growing section of the country the prin- 

 cipal grain fed to poultry has naturally been corn, and be- 

 cause the use of corn as the entire ration for hens during the 

 winter months resulted in a low egg production, it came into 

 disrepute as a poultry feed, in spite of its actual good quali- 

 ties. This caused both the Geneva Station, New York, and 

 our own station to conduct a series of experiments on the 

 value of corn for poultry, with the result of showing that 

 properly used it is a most excellent feed. 



Table 7. — Feeding Values of Various Foodstuffs compared with Corn. 



Name op Feed. 



Heat and 



Energy 



(Per Cent). 



Value. 



Price. 



Corn meal, 

 Oats (ground), . 



Wheat 



Wheat middlings (flour), . 

 Wheat middlings (standard), 

 Wheat bran. 

 Linseed meal, . 

 Hominy meal, . 

 Gluten meal. 

 Corn silage, 



100 

 83 

 92 

 98 

 67 

 57 

 94 



105 

 91 

 12 



$1 75 

 1 45 

 1 61 

 1 71 

 1 17 



99 

 1 64 

 1 82 

 1 59 



21 



$1 75 



1 85 



2 00 

 1 65 

 1 55 

 1 45 

 1 75 

 1 65 

 1 70 



This chart gives data worked out in part by Dr. J. B. 

 Lindsey, of the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Sta- 

 tion. The second column gives the heat and energy value 

 of the various feeds or grains named in column 1, with corn 

 meal taken as a standard ; not, however, including the value 

 of the protein in the grains for body building. Oats, it ap- 

 pears, are worth only 83 per cent and wheat 92 per cent 

 as much as corn in producing heat and energy. Flour mid- 

 dlings as a heat producer almost equals com, but standard 

 middlings, which sell at only 10 cents per hundred less, are 

 worth only about two-thirds as much as corn meal, yet many 

 times during the year we pay more for standard middlings 



