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HATCH EXPERIMENT STATION. 



[Jan. 



The dressed fowls which had received the cut bone were 

 reported slightly better than the other lot. The leading 

 details and results are shown in the followino; table : — 



Cat Bone v. Animal Meal. 



There was, in addition to the eggs as shown l)y the table, 

 one soft-shelled Qg<^ in each house. Two hens in the cut- 

 bone house died during the experiment, from diarrhu?a ; 

 those in the other house were healthy throughout the 

 experiment. 



The dry matter per egg was, where cut bone was fed, 

 0.877 pounds; on animal meal, 0.69 pounds. The number 

 of sitters was 6 in the cut-bone house, 12 in the other. 



A sample of eggs from each house was subjected to analy- 

 sis. Those produced on the cut bone contained rather more 

 protein but less fat than the other. A test for cooking 

 quality was indecisive ; one of the two house-keepers having 

 preferred one lot ; the other the opposite lot. 



The advantage in this trial is, then, clearly with the ani- 

 mal meal as a food for egg-production. It has given more 

 eggs of a greater average weight and at considerably less 

 cost than the bone ; and it is, moreover, a more convenient 

 food to use, as well as safer. The results this year are thus 

 the opposite of those of last year. We have now repeated 

 this experiment four times, with results twice favorable to 

 the bone and twice to the animal meal, but have not before 

 found so decisive a difference as this year. A\^e repeat the 

 experiment again this winter. 



3. Clover Roioen v. Cabbage for Egg -prod action. 

 Plymouth Rock pullets were used in this experiment; 

 but they were later-hatched fowls than those in the experi- 

 ments already described. There were twenty fowls in each 



