. Ducks and geese; a valuable collection of articles on breeding, rearing, feeding, housing and marketing these profitable fowls. Ducks; Geese. DUCKS AND GEESE. 37 AVERAGE RESULTS OE COMPARATIVE FEEDING TRIALS WITH DUCKLINGS. Lot A, Animal Meal. PERIOD. Average Weight per Fowl at End of Period. Total Food per Day. Cost of Food per Day. Approx- imate Nutritive Ratio. Average Gain in Weight per Fowl. Cost of Food per Pound of Gain. Pounds. Ounces. Cents. Ounces. Cents. 1 .2 .3 .4 .9 .2 .9 .00 .05 .12 .15 .20 .35 .39 .32 .37 .48 .39
. Ducks and geese; a valuable collection of articles on breeding, rearing, feeding, housing and marketing these profitable fowls. Ducks; Geese. DUCKS AND GEESE. 37 AVERAGE RESULTS OE COMPARATIVE FEEDING TRIALS WITH DUCKLINGS. Lot A, Animal Meal. PERIOD. Average Weight per Fowl at End of Period. Total Food per Day. Cost of Food per Day. Approx- imate Nutritive Ratio. Average Gain in Weight per Fowl. Cost of Food per Pound of Gain. Pounds. Ounces. Cents. Ounces. Cents. 1 .2 .3 .4 .9 .2 .9 .00 .05 .12 .15 .20 .35 .39 .32 .37 .48 .39 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 .6 2 3 4 5 : 7 8 6 2 9 2 9 10 11 Lot B—Vegetable Food. PERIOD. Average Weight per Fowl at End of Period. Total Food per Day. Cost of Food per Day. Approx- imate Nutritive Ratio. Average Gain in Weight per Fowl. Cost of Food per Pound of Gain. Pounds. Ounces. Cents. Ounces. Cents. 1 .15 .2 .2 .4 .5 .7 .9 .2 .4 .9 .01 .02 .05 .07 .04 .14 .20 .34 .25 .30 .34 .47 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 .5 .8 .1 .5 .8 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 9^7 12 The author of the popular edition, referring to this trial, says: "Before the experiment had been long under way it was noticed that the animal meal birds were developing rapidly and evenly; but the grain-fed ducklings were be- coming thin and uneven in size. It was sometimes almost pitiful to see the long-necked, scrawny, grain-fed birds, witb troughs full of good, apparent- ly wholesome food before them, standing on the alert and scrambling in hot haste after the unlucky grasshopper or fly which ventured into their pen; while the contented-looking meat-fed ducks lay lazily in the sun and paid no attention to buzzing bee or crawling
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