BULLETIN 1052, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table 6. — Results of fleshing hens (battery experiments). 
Ration. 
No. 
Special feeds. 
18 
19 
20 
Ground oats. 
Ground oats. 
Ground oats. 
/"Ground oats. 
\Meat scrap... 
( Ground oats. 
\Meat scrap . . 
/Ground oats. 
\ Alfalfa meal. 
( Ground oats... 
\ Alfalfa meal. . 
[Ground oats... 
< Alfalfa meal. . . 
[Meat scrap 
'Ground oats. 
Alfalfa meal . 
Meat scrap . . 
Charcoal 
{Ground oats. 
Alfalfa meal . 
Meat scrap... 
Charcoal 
Velvet-bean meal. 
Soy-bean meal. 
'Soy-bean meal. 
Water 
'Soy-bean meal. 
Meat scrap 
/Meat scrap. 
\ Water 
( Peanut meal. 
\ Alfalfa meal . 
Low-grade flour 
Middlings (standard 
] wheat) 
I Peanut flour 
Low-grade flour 
Middlings (standard 
1 wheat) 
I Oat middlings 
Low-grade flour 
Middlings , (standard 
wheat) 
Oat middlings 
f Low-grade flour 
JMiddlings (standard 
wheat) 
[Ground oats 
Perct. 
10.00 
10.00 
11.67 
5.00 
11.67 
5.00 
13.33 
2.00 
11.33 
2.00 
9.33 
4.00 
2.00 
11.67 
3.33 
1.33 
.33 
11.67 
3.33 
1.33 
.33 
4.00 
Corn 
meal. 
Per ct. 
30.00 
30.00 
30.00 
16.67 
16.67 
13.00 
18.00 
18.00 
16.67 
. 33 
8.33 
66.67 
7.00 
1.00 
1.67 
66.67 
7.00 
1.00 
4.50 
3.00 
7.50 
3.33 
8.33 
1.67 
3. 33 
8.33 
4.50 
6.00 
4.50 
16. 67 
29.33 
But- 
ter- 
milk. 
Per ct. 
60.00 
60.00 
60.00 
66.67 
66.67 
66.67 
66.67 
Num- 
ber of 
birds. 
66.67 
66.67 
25. 00 
25.00 
66.67 
25.33 
66.67 
25.00 
25.33 
66.67 
15.00 

70.00 
20.00 
66.67 
20.00 
66.67 
15.00 
70.00 
40 
40 
40 
40 
39 
40 
40 
501 
497 
495 
481 
316 
320 
323 
628 
640 
318 
319 
254 
Days 
fed. 
Initial 
weight. 
Lbs. 
5.01 
4.58 
3.98 
4.46 
3.96 
5.25 
5. 38 
5.40 
4.56 
4.40 
4.84 
4.88 
4.88 
4.89 
3.25 
3.50 
3.14 
3.20 
3.56 
3.72 
3.74 
3.83 
3.92 
3.70 
3.73 
3.65 
Gain. 
Experi- Con- 
mental trol 
ration. ration, 
£6*. 
1.76 
Per ct. 
15.17 
8.29 
14.57 
7.83 
Perct. 
13.17 
10.62 
7.66 
10.62 
7.66 
8.00 : 13.17 
9.67 13.17 
■8.15 | 13.17 
Rela- 
tive 
gain. 1 
Per ct. 
115 
6.01 
10.62 
57 
7.07 
7.66 
92 
7.24 
5.91 
6.22 
6.22 
116 
85 
4.09 
6.22 
66 
-1.02 
6.22 

3.90 
6.22 
63 
4.09 
6.22 
66 
7.71 
6.22 
124 
12.30 
12.86 
13.69 
5.31 
12.92 
14. 50 
14.17 
13. 31 
6.89 
4.57 
9.12 
10.41 
1 Control taken as 100 per cent. 
