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for the former and 6.88 cents for the latter. The Cochin pullets 
averaged 3.56 pounds in weight and the cockerels 4.52 pounds. 
The Leghorn pullets averaged 1.65 pounds and the cockerels 
2.06 pounds. 
The Cochin cockerels were fed separately for ashort period and 
then caponized and used in another feeding trial. Had they been 
sold, when separated, at the local market price, twelve cents per 
pound, they would have more than paid the cost of food up to 
this time for all in the lot. The cost of feeding the pullets from 
this time (September seventh), until November twenty-first, was 
an average of 20.07 cents per fowl. Deducting the market 
poultry value of the cockerels at the time separated from the 
total cost of all the lot would leave the net cost of eggs, hatch- 
ing and food for the Cochin pilets averaging 5.53 pounds in 
weight, 13.24 cents apiece. 
The Leghorn cockerels were fed for some time after they were 
separated from the pullets before being sold. The cost of feed- 
ing the Leghorn pullets from September seventh to November: 
twenty-first, was 13.09 cents apiece. Deducting the local market — 
value of the cockerels at the time of removal from the total cost 
of all birds in the lot would leave the total net cost for the Leg- 
horn pullets averaging 2.81 pounds at 16.78 cents each. The 
sexes were about equal with the Cochins, but there was an, 
unusual excess in the number of pullets among the Leghorns 
hatched (thirty-seven per cent more pullets than cockerels), so 
that the poultry value of the cockerels represented a lesser propor- 
tion of the value of food consumed. Had the sexes been equal, 
at the same proportionate cost for growing, and considering the 
poultry value of the cockerels, the net cost of Leghorn pullets 
would have been 13.55 cents apiece, nearly the same as that of 
the Cochins. 
In calculating the cost of the food used, wheat was rated at 
sixty-five cents per bushel, corn*at twenty dollars per ton, corn 
meal at twenty-two dollars, wheat bran eighteen dollars, buck- 
wheat middlings eighteen dollars, wheat middlings twenty dollars, 
" ground oats twenty-six dollars, linseed meal (O. P.) twenty-eight 
dollars, linseed meal (N. P.) twenty six dollars, cottonseed meal 
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