260 Report or THE First ASSISTANT OF THE 
some of the results areshowninachart. (Chart III, opposite.) The 
- ines on the chart show the relation existing between the cost of 
food per fowl and the market price, throughout their growth. The 
more abrupt changes in, the directions of the lines are due more to 
the changes in the market prices at different times in the year and 
for fowls of different weights than to any great fluctuation from 
an even rate of growth. It will be noticed that with the cockerels 
the lowest rate which the cost of food (and hatching) bore to the 
market value, after the average weight of two pounds, when it 
was 42.5 per cent., was at the weight of six pounds, when it repre- 
sented 46.3 per cent., about the same as at three pounds average 
weight. The actual difference in cents between the market value 
and the cost for food was also much greater at six pounds average 
weight than at any other. 
With the lot for capons the per cent. which the cost of food 
(hatching included) was of the market value varied little after 
they had really become capons, being most of the time between. 
forty and forty-five per cent., at some times a little lower than at 
broiler weight of two pounds. The actual amount in cents, how- 
ever, which the market value exceeded the cost for food, rapidly 
and quite regularly increased up to nine pounds average weight. 
The difference between the market value and the cost for food 
and hatching was at two pounds 20.7 cents, and at nine pounds 
average weight it was, for the cockerels, 37.7 cents, and for the 
capons, 94.4 cents, per fowl. 

