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bran, 18.5; wheat middlings, 18.5; Chicago ghiten meal, 

 18.5; ground clover, 18.5; cut bone, 10; total, 283.5 

 pounds; cost, $3.25; nutritive ratio, 1:4,8. 



The other lot received essentially the same foods, except 

 that in place of the bone it got 9.7 pounds of animal meal ; 

 total food, 287 pounds; cost, $3.26; nutritive ratio, 1:4.9. 



The leading details and results are shown in the following 

 table : — 



Cut Bone v. Animal Meal for Egr/-2)7'oduction. 



* One soft shelled. 



In the above estimate of cost the labor required to cut the 

 ])ones is included. The results indicate a decided advantage 

 in favor of the bone. During last year two experiments 

 were tried, one of which resulted favoral)ly to the bone, the 

 other to the animal meal. Last year there was some diar- 

 rhoea among the fowls having bone, this being given alone. 

 This year the bone was fed in the mash, and there has been 

 no such trouble. There has been this year no perceptible 

 difference either in the condition of the fowls in the two lots 

 or in the size or character of the eggs produced. The ex- 

 periment indicates, then, a decided advantage in favoi' of the 

 cut bone. This experiment is now being repeated. 



