14 
BULLETIN 21. U. S. DEPARTMENT OE AGRICULTURE. 
was used up to that time. The supply of condensed buttermilk was 
very limited, so that it was necessary to dilute it with a larger per cent 
of water as the feeding season advanced. The amount of condensed 
buttermilk fed per 100 pounds of grain was as follows: 10 gallons in 
August. 7 gallons in September. 4.5 gallons in October, and 3.3 gallons 
in November. The rather poor results secured at this station during 
the last part of the season may have been partly due to this lack of 
buttermilk, but the results were quite variable throughout the entire 
season. 
The cost of feed was considerably higher in 1912 than in 1911. The 
broilers and roasters were not separated at this station during this 
feeding season. The high cost of the gains during October on lots 
fed from 11 to 15 days would indicate that the common practice of 
dividing the lots into broilers and roasters about the 1st of October 
and gradually reducing the length of the feeding period of the latter 
was more profitable than to feed roasters for 14 days after the 1st of 
October. 
Table 9 .—Summary of Experiment D. 1912, Stat 
~ "r<g period. 
arranged according to length oj 
Xara" --: 
fed. 
"""--- 
?- c~i: o: gain. 
_-raia -;-: r-:aai : :' raia 
High. Low. A 
rerage. High. 
Low. 
Averag 
Pounds. 
Per cent. Per cent. Per cent. Pounds. 
?:„-.:-. 
?:; :;:. 
14.632 
6 
3.35 
15.0 5.0 
i.O 
7.22 
.. :7 
5.37 
v r*: 
7 
3.04 
21.0 
12.4 
- r . 
v --- 
8 
26.0 
6. ■: 
13.2 
• >: 
5.29 
,748 
9 
. - 
-: 
7.0 
12.1 
: : 
2.46 
5.1-5 
14.01S 
10 
- " 
24.0 
9.0 
- : 
6.76 
3.40 
3.99 
24. SO 
n 
2.45 
27! 
6.0 
17.8 
12.33 
-V 
i.'.-Z 
:•:-'- 
12 
- •- 
23.0 
9.0 
15.9 
v:.- 
3.02 
5.22 
5,610 
13 
. " 
>. : 
7.0 
15.1 
11.70 
4.04 
' > 
7,320 
14 
. - 
23.0 
13.0 i 
IS = 
vl' 
2.81 
5.34 
5,340 
15 
- II 
2-5.0 
v : 
17.5 
11.64 
3.74 
:.:•: 
1,84C 
16 
L8>7 
30.0 i 
2a 8 
_ 
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640 
-= 
1.73 
35.0 .. 
3.78 
107. 052 
_ 
15.7 .. 
=.« 
I rial 
■est of feed 
per C : s 1 of labor per 
Total cost per pound 
pot 
r. _ . : ci~ 
~: : aa : : : 
can. 
: : j .- j. 
::' :: --:, :. 
Hav. 
Low. A 
verage. Higi: '.. 
A\nerage 
. High 
1:--. 
Average. 
14,632 
Cents. 
13. >2 
Get*. 
5.22 
a 90 
ents. Cents. 
, 
. 
5.99 
. 11 
13.60 
5.17 
8.10 2.99 0-7S 
1 - 
16.59 
5.95 
■ 
V - 
14.60 
4.79 
10.15 3.2S 0.7S 
1 "- 
O. Oi 
11.93 
--■ 
11.37 
■5. 51 
11.59 LSI 1.00 
1.54 
13. 13 
6.54 
13.13 
14, > 
12.90 
*- 
7.99 
: - 
- 
:- e 
7.63 
-- - 
22.75 
:- 
-.'•> 
3.64 1.16 
1.56 
a 22 
7.30 
11.24 
7,056 
15. 5S 
-- 
: 27 
LI 
: ••• 
17. So 
v .; 
U.\B 
5,610 
27.20 
21 
11. 7> 
4.50 1.31 
1.64 
31.70 
10.75 
13.42 
" - 
15.60 
• 
11.21 
2. 19 1. 12 
1.70 
17 . 
7.60 
12.91 
5,340 
21. -56 
>.73 
13.05 
2.92 1.3S 
: • 
- - 
10.11 
15.03 
■ 
U " 
• 
11.21 
1.36 
1.59 
13.50 
: - 
12 • 
640 
- rs 
1.36 
10.14 
, 107,052 
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