A FEEDING EXPERIMENT. 



Results of a Two=Months Test of Dry Mash Fed in Hoppers 



Versus Damp Mash in Troughs, Conducted at Minne= 



sota State Experiment Farm, Crool<ston. 



By Qus Walters. 



Experiments were in progress for two months, from 

 Dec. 12, 1905, to Feb. 12, 1906, to ascertain the cost of egg 

 production and the efficiency of different methods of feed- 

 ing. 



Two pens of White Leghorn pullets (50 to each pen) 

 were made up a week before the experiment began so the 

 fowls of each pen would get accustomed to surroundings 

 and kinds of food. Equally good birds were put in each 

 pen (nearly all of an age) before the experiment began. 

 Both pens of pullets gave practically the same number of 

 eggs per day for several days before the test commenced. 

 Pen No. 1 was fed the ground meals dry in a hopper or 

 box so the fowls could help themselves at all times. The 

 box contained two compartments; in one was put all the 

 meals mixed together and in the other the beef scraps. 



Both pens were fed the whole and cracked grains scat- 

 tered in the litter of straw on the floors, about one-third 

 as much at the morning feed as at the night feed. 



Pen No. 2 was fed the ground grain in a mash daily, 

 at noon, mixed with warm water and fed in troughs, all 

 they would eat up clean in about ten minutes. The pounds 

 of food each pen of fowls ate during the two months was 

 as follows: 



Pen No. 1. Pen No. 2. 



Wheat 177 1833^ 



Oats 157 1633^ 



Barley 172 1783^ 



Wheat Bran 28% 51 



Wheat Middlings 23% 44i^ 



