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the most influence on the results obtained. Pullets gave 

 iar greater returns than either hens or flocks consist- 

 ing of both pullets and hens. The results from the 

 pullets were fifty-two eggs each which brought, at 

 market prices, $1.19 per fowl. The hens averaged 

 forty-six eggs each which brought ninety-six cents. 

 The cost of food was practically the same with each. 

 The pullets made a profit of nearly fifty per cent 

 greater than the hens. 



The best results were obtained in warm houses 

 (those thoroughly built but without artificial heat) 

 -and in houses with a curtained roosting room, the 

 ■profit being the same in each case. The scratching 

 -shed style of house ranked next. 



This contest was the most successful of the kind 

 ;ever conducted and the results were so strong in some 

 directions that we may safely draw some definite con- 

 . elusions as follows : 



Pullets produced the most eggs and the greatest 

 profit. 



Poultry houses should be warm or at least there 

 should be a warm sleeping apartment for the greatest 

 ■egg yield and the highest profit. 



The rations should consist largely of whole grain 

 ied in a deep litter of straw or other scratching mate- 

 rial. There seems to be no advantage in feeding a 

 warm mash. Better results are obtained by feeding 

 the mixed ground grain dry in a hopper or box to 

 ■which the fowls can have access at all times. There is 

 mo danger of their eating too much of this. 



The bre.ed is not so important as the feed and 

 care. Well matured pullets, comfortably housed and 

 well fed have got to lay in spite of themselves. Pref- 

 erence should be given at all times to well bred stock, 

 iecause there is an added return in the sale of eggs 



