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There are four flocks recorded here, an average of 14.7 birds at the 
finish, an average percentage raised 78 or 6.2 per cent less raised, as- 
compared to the milk fed flocks run at the same time. The average 
weight of all birds in the tests was 0.88 pound, or 32 per cent in favor 
of milk feeding with this feed mixture. The variation is greater than 
in those chicks fed with Mixture 7, which mixture contains 16 per cent 
meat meal. 
During the year 1916 there were twenty-two test flocks run at one 
of the Branch Experimental Farms with White Plymouth Rocks. 
These birds received Feed Mixture 9 with mash, mixed with milk, and 
milk for the birds to drink. 
TABLE XIX 
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RESULTS OF FLOCKS RECEIVING MIXTURE 9 
Date 
Number at Start 
Number at End 
Average Weight End 
8 Weeks 
6-29-.... 
11 
10 
1.10 
6-28... 
9 
9 
.91 
7- 5-...... 
6 
4 
.95 
7- 3....... 
10 
9 
.81 
7-13______ 
7 
7 
1.05 
7- 9_ 
13 
11 
.89 
6-26___ 
11 
11 
.90 
6-25_ 
6 
6 
1.08 
6-25_____ 
14 
12 
.86 
5-11_ 
7 
6 
1.16 
5-12._____ 
5 
5 
1.02 
4-25___ 
11 
6 
1.09 
4-25....... 
9 
4 
1.00 
4-25.----._-_.... 
11 
11 
.99 
4-13... 
7 
6 
1.36 
4- 8_ 
19 
18 
1.14 
4- 8.... 
19 
8 
1.30 
Totals_ __ _ 
175 
143 
17.61 
Averages .. •__ _ 
10 
8 
1.03 
In this test the average weight at the end of eight weeks was 1.03 
pounds. The mortality was 10 per cent. This is milk fed work. 
During the year 1917 there were five test lots of chicks with ration 
9 with chicks from the same White Plymouth Rock flock as those with 
the same mixture, plus milk run on the previous year. The hens were 
set and the chicks brooded similar to those of the year before. The 
following is a tabulation of these results: 
