THE COMPOUNDING OF RATIONS 



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Table XXXVI. — The Relative Cost of Protein from Various SonRCEs. 



them at a feed cost of 8.5 cents per dozen. The feed cost 

 per bird per year was 98 cents. The per hundred pound costs 

 of the feeds were as follows:. 



Corn 

 Wheat . 

 Oats 

 Bran 

 ' Shorts 

 Grit 



Oyster shell 

 Meat scrap 

 Oil meal 



$0.87^ 

 1.45 

 1.00 

 1.32J 

 1.47i 

 1.00 

 1.00 

 2.50 

 2.10 



He further reports' that on the basis of these prices the 

 cost of rearing a Leghorn pullet to laying age was 38.9 cents. 

 The pullets, required more feed per pound gain in weight as 

 they approached maturity. 



' Journal of American Association of Instructors and Investigators in 

 Poultry Husbandry, vol. ii. No. 5. 



