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About 130 chicks were hatched by hens in the usual manner. 
They were Cochins and Leghorns. The Leghorns were hatched — 
a little later in the season, during milder weather, and the eggs 
were more strongly fertile so the cost of the chicks when hatched 
‘was considerably less. The eggs were tested first after eight 
days and the second time on the eighteenth day. One hundred 
and seventeen Cochin eggs were set, 11.1 per cent proving infer- 
tile. After the second testing 65 per cent of the eggs remained; 
77.6 per cent of the tested eggs hatched, or 50.4 per cent of all ~ 
eggs set. Allowing for all accidents and losses in hatching, 46.1 
per cent of all eggs set were represented by strung healthy chicks. 
One hundred and one Leghorn eggs were set, 9.9 per cent proving 
infertile. After the second testing 83.2 per cent of the eggs ; 3 
remained ; 91.7 per cent of the tested eggs hatched, or 76.2 per 
cent of all eggs set. Allowing for all losses in hatching, 75.2 
per cent of all eggs set were represented by strong, healthy chicks. — 
The hens used were nearly all Cochin or of Game—Cochin cross 
and were tame and easily handled. They were given water to 
drink and were taken from the nests and fed once daily all the 
Indian corn and mixed grain they would eat. The mixed grain 
consisted of four parts corn meal, two parts buckwheat middlings, 
two parts wheat bran and one part each of wheat middlings, 
ground oats, linseed meal (O. P.) and cottonseed meal...In every — 
twenty pounds of this mixture one ounce of salt was thoroughly 
mixed. Of the food taken by one lot of hens, 70.8 per cent was 
whole corn and for the other 73.9 per cent. For hatching the 
Cochin eggs nine hens were used the first week and eight for the 
rest of the time. For hatching the Leghorn eggs eight hens 
were used for three weeks. The hens with the first lot of eggs 
consumed of total food an average per day per hen of 1.53 ounces, 
and the average cost of food per hen for the twenty-one days 
was 2.06 cents. The average cost in food for hens when hatching — 
Cochin chicks was .32 cents for each chick hatched. Rating the — 
egos at twenty-four cents per dozen, the cost of each chick when — 
hatched was 4.65 cents. The hens with the second lot of eggs 
consumed on the average 1.12 ounces of food per day per hen, 
and the average cost of food per, hen for the twenty-one days . 
was 1.5 cents. The average cost in food for the hens while 



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