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found later). The total yield for the eight months, however, was _ 
about the same, calculated to the average per fowl, for pens 6 and 8, 
slightly in favor of pen 8. The consumption of food was enough ~ 
greater in pen 8, to make the cost of eggs produced slightly exceed 
that for pen 6. | 
These fowls were fed mixed grain, wheat, fresh bone, corn silage 
and alfalfa forage. Oyster shells were kept in the pens and a 
box of dust. Coal ashes were in the yards, and fresh water at all 
times available. The mixed grain until June sixteenth, consisted 
of two parts corn meal, two parts ground oats, one part wheat 
middlings, one part linseed meal (O. P.) — After June sixteenth, the 
mixed grain was composed of one part each of corn meal, linseed 
meal (O. P.), wheat bran, wheat middlings, ground oats, cottonseed 
meal, gluten meal and crude gluten (high grade). To every twenty 
pounds of this mixed grain, one ounce of salt was added and 
thoroughly mixed. This was a very highly nitrogenous mixture 
and was fed so soon as warm weather began, with the expectation 
that it might assist rapid and early molting which it probably 
did as most of the fowls had new feathers by September. The 
average per cent. of moisture for each food was: Mixture No. 1, 12.9 
per cent.; mixture No. 2, 10.5 per cent.; wheat, 12.0 per cent.; corn 
_ silage, 70.0 per cent.; alfalfa forage, 78.2 per cent., and fresh cut 
bone, 29.7 per cent.; up to March twenty-fourth, 40.3 per cent.; 
March to July, and 32.6 per cent. after July. The composition of 
the water-free substance for each food is shown in the following 
small table. The succeeding tables show the results of feeding 
for each pen calculated to the average per fowl for periods of 
twenty-eight days, except the last period, which is fourteen days. 
CoMPOSITION OF WATER-FREE SUBSTANCE. 




FOOD. er cant || Fee cae | ee ee a ee 
VEDIC ek ich 5.0 «ole Ea 2.28 2.03 13.31 80.21 
Mixture No. 1..... pM Sey f5 5.56 16.62 69.36 
Mixture No. 2..... 3.24 4.64 7426 28.75 56.11 
Corn silage ....... 4.01 5.02 | 18.54 8.77 63.66 
Alfalfa forage be Ap py 10.00 6.74 26.80 16.56 39.90. 
Fresh bone ........ 34.62 un 1D Aes ee ete 31.28 22.90. 

