FEED COST OF EGG PRODUCTION. 
Table 1. — Pens, rations, and conditions — Continued. 
Pen 
No. 
Date experi- 
ment began. 
Number 
of pallets. 
Jan. 25,1913 
30 
Dec. 1,1913 
do 
30 
30 
do 
30 
Nov. 1,1914 
8 
do 
8 
do 
8 
Jan. 19,1915 
18 
do 
18 
Mar. 2, 1915 
24 
do 
12 
Breed. 
How kept. 
Feed. 
Scratch mixture. 
Mash. 
12 
13 
11 Barred Plymouth 
Rocks, 1 White 
Plymouth Rock, 3 
White Orpingtons, 
3 Bull Orpingtons, 
9 White Wyan- 
dottes, 3 Rhode 
Island Reds. 
White Leghorns 
White Leghorns 
Free range . 
Yarded... 
Free range 
9 Barred Plymouth 
Rocks, 2 White 
Plymouth Rocks, 
11 Buff Orping- 
tons, 8 Rhode Is- 
land Reds. 
4 Rhode Island 
Reds, 3 Crosses, 1 
Barred Plymouth 
Rock. 
4 Rhode Island 
Reds, 3 Crosses, 1 
Barred Plymouth 
Rock. 
5 Rhode Island 
Reds, 2 Crosses, 1 
Barred Plymouth 
Rock. 
7 Rhode Island 
Reds,- 6 Crosses, 3 
Barred Plymouth 
Rocks, 2 Burl Or- 
pingtons. 
6 Rhode Island 
Reds, 8 Crosses, 2 
Buff Orpingtons, 
2 Barred Ply- 
mouth Rocks. 
13 White Leghorns, 
11 Barred Ply- 
mouth Rocks. 
7 Barred Plymouth 
Rocks, 5 White 
Leghorns. 
...do... 
.do.... 
\ cracked corn, 
\ wheat, \ oats, 
I barley. 
Same as for Pen 1 
....do 
.do 
.do 
...do. 
...do.. 
.do.. 
...do... 
....do.... 
....do.... 
....do... 
.....do 
.do. 
.do. 
Beef scrap and a 
mixture of equal 
parts corn meal 
and middlings in 
separate hoppers. 
Same as for Pen 3. 
4 per cent bran ; 4 
per cent mid- 
dlings, 66 per 
cent corn meal, 
26 per cent beef 
scrap. 
I bran, \ middlings, 
I corn meal. 
3 parts bran, 1 part 
middlings, 2 
parts corn meal, 
3 parts cotton- 
seed meal. 
2 parts bran, 1 part 
middlings, 2 
parts corn meal, 
\ part beef scrap, 
2 parts cotton- 
seed meal. 
Same as Pen 8. 
1 part bran, 1 part 
middlings, 2 
parts corn meal, 
1 part fish meal. 
1 part bran, 1 part 
middlings, 2 
parts corn meal, 
1 part beef scrap. 
Same as Pen 10. 
Same as Pen 11. 
All parts are by weight. 
METHODS OF FEEDING. 
The scratch mixture of whole or cracked grains was fed twice daily 
in 2 to 3 inches of straw litter on the floor of each pen, feeding 
about one-third of the grain in the morning and the rest at night. 
Hoppers containing a dry mash, or mixture of ground grains, were 
kept open before the fowls all the time. The amount of the scratch 
mixture was fixed during 1912 and 1913 so that the fowls ate about 
one-third mash and two-thirds grain. As there appeared to be a 
tendency for all the hens except the Leghorns to become too fat and 
not exercise enough under this method, the amount of scratch grains 
was reduced in 1914 so that the hens ate about equal parts of the 
