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What was the difference between the value of the eggs on range and 

 confined? How much would this amount to in a flock of fifty hens? 

 How much range should be provided for fifty hens? Suppose you were 

 to consider the difference in the value of the eggs produced as rent for 

 the range, would this be a satisfactory rent far the land? From the 

 table given, what other advantage do you see in the range? 



62. What is the relative value of meat scrap, fish scrap, and skim 

 milk for laying hens? (See Purdue University Agricultural Experiment 

 Station Bulletin 182.) 



63. From the results of experiments, would it pay better to feed 

 buttermilk to poultry or to hogs? 



64. In what sections of the United States were prices of poultry and 

 poultry products highest for the ten years' average from 1902-1911 ? In 

 which states highest? (See Warren's Farm Management, p. 576.) 



65. What evidence can you find that pure-bred poultry pays better 

 than mongrels or crosses? 



66. What are the three nutrients required in poultry feeds? 



67. Why is it necessary to feed mash in addition to grain feed? 



68. How do peanut meal and soybean meal rank as poultry feeds? 



69. What is likely to be the result if you feed 30 per cent of velvet 

 bean meal in mash? "^ 



70. If spoilt table scraps are fed to chicks, what is likely to be the 

 result ? Suppose the table scraps are fresh : what will be the result ? 



71. If you raise mangels for winter feed, when should they be planted, 

 when harvested, and how kept till winter? 



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72. Hens have diarrhea with a greenish-yellow discharge; in looking 

 around the place foul water containers are found. What effect, if any, 

 might this have upon the health of the birds? 



72i. A flock of birds are fed irregularly, sometimes at six o'clock in 

 the morning, at other times at nine, at other times, not at all. They 

 are given similar treatment in the evening. What effect will this have 

 on egg production? Note the behavior of a flock about feeding time. 



74. Why is it necessary to feed mash with grain feed? 



75. If hens are on range on a farm, will they get feed that will take 

 the place of the meat scrap of the mash ? What is it ? 



76. if birds are underfed, what effect will it have upon their laying? 



77. Name the grains used for scratch feed; the feeds used for mash. 



