POULTRY EXPERIMENTS. 



II 



SIXTYEIGHT CHICKENS (MATES TO TH03E IN GROUPS 1 AND 2) CON- 

 FINED IN SMALL HOUSE AND YARD, AND FED 28 DAYS ON SAME FOOD 

 AS THOSE IN GROUP 1. 



Live Weights. 



Increase in Weights. 



July 25. 



August 22. 



Lot of 68. 



Each. 



199.3 pounds 



296.8 pounds 





1.43 pounds. 





Pounds of dry meal mixture used, 513. 



Pounds of mixture required to produce a pound of gain, 5.26. 



EEEDING TEST NO. 5. 



The conditions under which this test was made were like those 

 in No. 4 except in the composition of the food. The chickens 

 were from the same hatch and of like quality with the others ; 

 both trials were made at the same time and the food was pre- 

 pared and fed in the same manner in both cases. In this test 

 the food was from a mixture of ioo pounds of corn meal, ioo 

 pounds of wheat middlings and 33 pounds of meat meal, mixed 

 as used with cold skim-milk. Two pounds of the skim-milk was 

 used with one pound of the mixed meal. 



The following tables show the work as it progressed and the 

 results : 



CHICKENS IN SMALL COOPS. 

 FEED MIXED WITH MILK. 



Group 2. 



Live Weights during Test. 



Increase. 



H 



Four Plymouth Rock cockerels 

 Four Plymouth Rock cockerels 

 Four Plymouth Rock cockerels 

 Four Plymouth Rock cockerels 

 Four Plymouth Rock cockerels 



Total weights 



Increase in weights 



Lbs. 

 13.3 

 14.8 

 12.4 

 15.0 

 12.1 



67.6 



Lbs. 



Lbs. 



14.2 



16.2 



16.6 



18.1 



14.1 



16.0 



17.6 



19.8 



14.4 



15.8 



76.9 



85.9 



9.3 



9.0 



Lbs. 

 18.0 

 19.5 

 17.4 

 22.0 

 17.6 



Lbs. 

 19.2 

 21.4 



18.8 

 23.4 

 18.5 



Lbs. 

 5.9 

 6.6 

 6.4 



8.4 

 6.4 



Lbs. 

 1.47 

 1.65 

 1.60 

 2.10 

 1.60 



94.5 

 8.6 



101.3 



33.7 



1.68 



Pounds of dry meal mixture used, 231. 



Pounds of skim-milk used, 465. 



Pounds of dry mixture required to produce a pound of gain, 6.85. 



Age of chickens at commencement of test, 95 days. 



