. Eggs and egg farms : Trustworthy information regarding the successful production of eggs--the construction plans of poultry buildings and the methods of feeding that make egg farming most profitable .. . IJ—A LAYING HOUSE OF MODERN CONSTRUCTION The conclusions arrived at were as follows: (1) The wheat fed fowls gained 354 pounds, while the corn fed fowls gained onlj' 34 pounds during the same time. (2) The wheat fed laid 17,459 eggs, the corn fed only 9,709. (3) A larger per cent of the eggs laid by the wheat fed fowls were fertile, the corn fed laying many infertile eggs. Such experiments a
. Eggs and egg farms : Trustworthy information regarding the successful production of eggs--the construction plans of poultry buildings and the methods of feeding that make egg farming most profitable .. . IJ—A LAYING HOUSE OF MODERN CONSTRUCTION The conclusions arrived at were as follows: (1) The wheat fed fowls gained 354 pounds, while the corn fed fowls gained onlj' 34 pounds during the same time. (2) The wheat fed laid 17,459 eggs, the corn fed only 9,709. (3) A larger per cent of the eggs laid by the wheat fed fowls were fertile, the corn fed laying many infertile eggs. Such experiments as these would have a far-reaching effect on the poultry industry, if the conclusions were gener- ally accepted. They would seem to prove that nitrogenous feeding is away ahead of carbonaceous-feeding, but they prove nothing of the kind, when we come to analyze them. Take the first case for example, which says that the wheat fed fowls gained 354 pounds in seven months and the corn fed gained only 34 pounds. Any practical poultryman when he considers the ration will be surprised to find that the corn fed fowls had any gain at all credited to them at the end of the seven months. Fancy a fowl thriving on potatoes, corn and oats. There was, we admit, a feed of clover in the third, fourth and fifth months and some wheat screenings during the first, second, sixth and seventh months, the last two being most important of all, there was nothing but corn, potatoes and oats, and during the fifth month they existed on corn and potatoes with some clover hay thrown in, while on the sixth month the poor things were fed corn and potatoes alone. On the other hand see what the wheat fed fowls reveled in every month—potatoes, hominy, feed, brown middlings, corn, oats and fresh bone; wheat screenings for three months, clover hay for three months and oil-cake for two months. They also received every month from 200 to 450 pounds of food more than the corn fed fowls. The chances are that the corn
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