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New York AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. O17 
hatching Leghorn chicks was .16 cents for each chick. Rating 
the eggs at twenty-four cents per dozen, the cost of each Leghorn 
chick when hatched was 2.8% cents. 
The average of all made the cost in food for sitting hens 
.22 cents for every chick hatched. Rating eggs at 
twenty-four cents per dozen, every strong healthy chick cost 
when hatched, 3.58 cents. At fifteen cents per dozen for eggs 
the cost per chick was 2.32 cents. 
The young chicks were kept indoors a few days and then put 
with the hen out-of-doors and allowed to run at will in an apple 
orchard, the hen being confined inasmall coop after the ordinary 
method. The average time of keeping the hens with the Cochin 
chicks was six weeks and hens were kept with the Leghorn chicks 
on the average a little over five weeks. The food for the grow- 
ing chicks was mixed grain, cracked wheat, skim-milk, dessicated 
beef and finely cut fresh bone. The first mixed grain fed was 
composed of two parts corn meal, and one part each of wheat- 
bran, ground oats, wheat middlings, buckwheat middlings and 
linseed meal (O. P.). Another mixed grain consisted of four parts 
corn meal, two parts buckwheat middlings, two parts of wheat 
bran, and one part each of wheat middlings, ground oats, linseed 
meal (O. P.) and linseed meal(N.P.). To every twenty pounds of 
the mixture one ounce of salt. A third mixture was the same 
except that two parts of old process linseed meal were used in 
place of one each of new and old process. The chicks were 
entirely healthy at all times and suffered from no disease. The 
few lost were from accidents. 
When the young fowls were put into the poultry houses and 
the sexes separated, which was for the Cochins at the average 
age of 109 days and for the Leghorns at the average age of 
eighty-four days, the Cochins averaged 4.05 pounds in weight 
- and the Leghorns, 1.83 pounds. . The total cost of all food con- 
sumed up to this time averaged 19.71 cents per chick for the 
Cochins and 9.77 cents for the Leghorns. The cost per pound 
gain in weight made by the Cochins was 4.99 cents and of that 
by the Leghorns, 5.65 cents. Including the cost of hatching, the 
average total cost of each Cochin chick at this time was 24.36 
cents and of each Leghorn, 12.59 cents or 6.01 cents per pound 
