POULTRY EXPERIMENTS. 151 



As told on page 179, in describing the Feeding of the Laying 

 Hens in the Station Flocks; for each 100 hens, 4 quarts of 

 screened cracked corn are scattered on the deep litter early in 

 the morning and at 10 o'clock 2 quarts of wheat and 2 quarts of 

 oats are mixed together and fed in the same way, the mixture of 

 dry meals being in the slatted troughs within their reach all of 

 the time. 



At Go-well Farm, last October, 1000 April hatched pullets 

 were put into 10 pens in the laying and breeding house and 

 all of them received the same treatment for 6 months. The 

 selections were made with great care so as to have the 100 

 birds in each pen comparable with those in every other pen. 

 The 10 pens in which they were confined are 20x20 feet in size 

 and exactly alike in construction and arrangement. In every 

 pen the dry meal mixture, bone, shell, grit and charcoal, were 

 constantly in the slatted troughs, and mangels and short cut 

 clover were fed every day, to all alike. They had plenty of 

 clean water, and the floors were well littered with straw, over 

 3 or 4 inches of fine sawdust. 



As soon as the birds could see to eat in the mornings, they 

 were fed. Those in the first 5 pens were given, in each pen, 

 2 quarts of wheat and 2 quarts of whole corn scattered evenly 

 over the whole floor. At 10 o'clock they were fed again the 

 same quantity and kind of food. Those in the second 5 pens 

 received 2 quarts of wheat and a little more than 2 quarts of 

 cracked corn in the morning and the same at 10 o'clock. As 

 cracked corn is bulkier than whole corn, a measure was made, 

 that holds a quantity that weighs the same as 2 quarts of corn 

 while whole. The tables show the production of each of the 

 10 pens, each month, from November to April — one half the 

 year. 



