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These 300 birds consumed about 5,808 pounds of dry 

 mash, which is kept before them all the time in hoppers, 

 and which was compounded and cost as follows: 



Oat flour, 1,532 lbs., cost $26.U4 



Wheat shorts, 1,532 lbs., cost 19.15 



Bran, 1,532 lbs., cost 17.62 



Beef scrap or meal, 553 lbs., cost 14,94 



Bone meal, 252 lbs., cost 5.70 



Alfalfa meal, 250 lbs., cost 5.25 



Charcoal, 100 lbs., cost 1.20 



Salt, 57 lbs., cost 57 



Total, 5,808 lbs., cost $90.47 



My birds also consumed about 600 pounds of oyster 

 shell and grit, which cost $3.60. I kept it in a small 

 hopper directly above the dry mash hopper, so that 

 whatever they wasted fell into the dry mash below. I 

 used straw for litter and used in the nine months about 

 5,205 pounds, costing $37.85. I wish to mention that I 

 purchased my straw baled and noticed quite often on 

 opening the bales that the straw had a tendency to be 

 musty, which is certainly very bad for the fowls and 

 should be avoided. ' I propose this coming season to 

 use peat moss, as used by Mr. Jones, and I believe the 

 results will be much better. For every fifteen birds I 

 scattered in the litter every morning a heaped half pint 

 of mixed grain; about one hour before sunset they had 

 a heaped pint of the same. They were fed in all about 

 6,751 pounds of grain, compounded and costing as 

 follows; 



Wheat, 3,375 lbs., co^l $ 56.25 



Cracked corn, 1,688 lbs., cust 25.32 



(.)ats, 1,688 lbs., cost - 19.86 



Total, 6,751 lbs., co,-,t $101.43 



At 11:30 A. M. every day the 300 birds got all the 

 green food they would eat up clean in about fifteen min- 

 utes. At the first part of the season I used a ton of 

 giant sugar beets, costing $6.00. After using them up 

 I went back to my old plan of sprouting oats, and really 

 found them much more satisfactory, especially for 

 breeders. I used in all 1,088 pounds of oats for sprout- 

 ing, costing $12.80. 



Now, to sum up the total amount of food consumed 

 by my 300 Campine females during the nine months and 

 the cost of same, I find it is as follows: 



5,809 lbs. dry mash, cost $ 90.47 



6,751 lbs. mixed grain, cost 101.43 



()0U lbs. oyster shell and grit, cost 3.60 



S,2llS lbs. straw for litter, cost 37.85 



1,088 lbs. oats for sprouting, cost — 12.80 



2,(X)0 lbs. giant sugar beds, est - 6.00 



Total cost - $252.15 



The Egg Yield 



The returns received during the nine months from 

 the 300 Campine females were 38,651 eggs. Of course, 

 only a few of the eggs were marketed, as during the 

 breeding season nearly all were used for incubation on 

 the farm or sold for hatching purposes, but in making 



PIR5T PRlIEr COCKE-RELVHEN • 



WINNERS ATM AD[S°^ SQUARE (iARPEM,DE;C,191 l,"WN&D BYJ.f-R&PN KENNEDY 

 BIRCHCLIf^P. OMTARlo,CAriPiDA. 



Among the old established races of continental Europe whose charming plumage and elegant 

 form have been improved during recent years by fanciers of Great Britain, none is more fascinating 

 to the eye — and perhaps more profitable on account of its large, white eggs — than the Campine, orig- 

 inally of Belgium. Rev. E. Lewis Jones, Radnorshire, England, the foremost British promoter of the 

 breed, visited Madison Square Garden with some of his choicest specimens, Dec, 1911, and the above 

 pair, cockerel and hen, won first and were purchased by J. Fred N. Kennedy. — F. L.. Sewell, 



