949, Report oF THE First ASSISTANT OF THE 
Calculations of the value of the food consumed were made at 
the following prices.— In 1891;— Mixture No. 22; at twenty-three 
dollars per ton; wheat, at one dollar per bushel; corn meal, at 
twenty-two dollars per ton; wheat bran, at twenty dollars per ton; 
skim-milk, at twenty-five cents per 100 pounds; alfalfa forage, at 
two dollars per ton; and dry bone, at two cents per pound. In 
1892 ;— ground oats, at twenty-six dollars per ton; wheat bran, at 
eighteen dollars per ton; wheat middlings, at twenty dollars per 
ton; corn meal, at twenty-four dollars per ton; linseed meal, N. P., 
at thirty dollars per ton; linseed meal, O. P., at twenty-eight 
dollars per ton; corn, at sixty cents per bushel; wheat, at eighty 
cents per bushel; skim-milk, at twenty-four cents per 100 pounds; 
alfalfa forage, beets and corn silage, each three dollars and twenty 
cents per ton. 
The pens in which the lots of capons were fed had about ten 
by twelve feet floor space with open yards, which were covered 
with coal ashes, attached about eleven by twenty feet. In each 
of these pens about fifteen to twenty fowls were kept when small, 
unless fewer for any lot were available, and when nearly grown 
from eight to twelve. After winter weather had commenced the 
capons were kept inside and but very seldom allowed in the yards. 
Until in December, however, they had the run of the open yard 
so that they were more than half grown when close confinenent 
indoors began. 
They were weighed once a week and oftener at about time of 
caponizing. Some occasionally at time of weighing were removed 
on account of symptoms of disease, the indications of being slips, 
for exhibition, or for dissection, etc. The results of feeding were 
averaged for periods of one week, but as the growth is shown as 
well with average results arranged for pees of two weeks they 
are so given in tabulated form. 
In estimating the market value per fowl at the different weights, 
the market price prevailing at the time of year when the fowls 
had on the average attained to the weights are taken. The 
market: quotations were the average of those contained in The 
American Grocer and the Cultivator and Country Gentleman, 
and during the latter part of the séason in the New York Weekly — 
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