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on I'icli 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 gTain fed to poultry has naturally been corn, and be- 

 cause the use of com 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, N^ew York, and 

 our own station to conduct a series of experiments on the value 

 of com for poultrj^, 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 of 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 

 8.3 

 92 

 98 

 67 

 57 

 94 



10.5 

 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 com 

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

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

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

 much as corn in producing heat and energy. Flour middlings 

 as a heat producer almost equals corn, but standard middlings, 

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

 about two-thirds as much as com meal, yet many times during 

 the year we pay more for standard middlings than for corn 



