48 Report or tHE Department or AnimaL HusBanpry OF THE 
THE RATIONS. 
One ration consisted of wheat, corn, animal meal, fresh bone 
and a grain mixture, “ No. 1,” composed of twelve parts by 
weight of corn meal, four parts wheat flour, two parts ground oats 
and one part each of wheat bran, wheat middlings, pea meal and 
old process linseed meal. One lot of chicks having this ration had 
also for the first few weeks a little oat meal and some skim milk 
and curd. The contrasted ration consisted of wheat, corn, skim 
milk or curd and a grain mixture “ No. 2,” composed of six parts 
pea meal, four parts old process linseed meal, two parts each of 
wheat bran, eround oats and high grade gluten meal, and one 
part each of wheat middlings and corn meal: One lot having this 
ration also had at the start a little oat meal. Another mixture, 
“No. 3,” which it was necessary to substitute for “No. 2” mixture 
near the end of one feeding trial, consisted of two parts each of old 
process linseed meal, wheat bran, ground oats and gluten’ meal, 
and one part each of wheat middlings and corn meal. ‘T’o about 
every 100 pounds of each grain mixture one ounce of salt was 
added. Green alfalfa was fed to each lot. The dry matter of the 
green food eaten by chicks has usually been so small in amount 
that its consideration did not affect the averages of total food for 
short periods. The cost also of the green food was so small as 
not to appear in average estimates but only in aggregates for the 
longer periods. For this reason account of the green food does 
not reguarly appear in all the tabulated data which follow. 
VALUATION OF FOODS. 
In estimating the cost of food, corn meal, wheat bran and wheat 
middlings were rated at $13.00 per ton, ground oats at $16.00, lin- 
seed meal at $20.00, coarse flour at $26.00, gluten meal at $23.00 
and pea meal at $18.50 per ton. “Wheat was rated at 80 cents 
per bushel and corn at 88 cents per bushel. Animal meal and 
dried blood were rated at $40.00 per ton, fresh bone at 80 cents 
per 100 pounds and green fodder at $2.00 per ton. 
The grain mixtures and other foods averaged in composition as 
follows : 
