MAINE ACRICL'ETURAI, ]u\ PJ-.Kl .\[ EXT S'JWTIOX. .1 [ 



finer parts being blown away, and on this account the fh-y-mash 

 should be put m a sheltered place out of the reach of wind. 



EKFDrXC TliE COCKERFI,S EOR J.IARKET. 



At the ?^Iaine Station many of the cockerels are to be use:! for 

 breeding purposes, and they are fed in flocks of about too on 

 the range in about the same way as the pullets. The drv-fee 1 

 method is now used for them as satisfactorily as for the pullets. 



A very large proportion of the cockerels raised in New Eng- 



Frc. 8. Cb.icken feeding trough with cover removed. 



land are sent to the market alive, without bei"g fattcne'k Ojite 

 extended experiments at the Maine Station with many birds in 

 different years in:hcate very clearly that keej^ng the cockerels 

 for a few weeks witli special feeding will add materiallv to the 

 selling price. Xot infrequently this will make the dilTerence 

 between loss from the low jrice obtained for slow-selling un fat- 

 tened birds and the profit from comparativeh" quick-selling 

 specially fed birds st a much higher price. The higher price is 

 due partly to the increased weight and partlv to the superior 

 quality of the well-covered soft-fieshcd chickens. As the bul- 

 letins containing the results of these feeding experiments with 

 cockerels rre out of print, the following brief summarv of the 

 results obtained is sivcn : 



