. 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 .. . T IS the purpose of this article to bring to the attention of the public the results of several ex- periments carried out under my direction at the Hatch experiment Station during the past five years, which it is believed are worth the con- sideration of all who keep fowls for eggs. These experiments have been directed to the elucidation of but a few of the many questions which present thems
. 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 .. . T IS the purpose of this article to bring to the attention of the public the results of several ex- periments carried out under my direction at the Hatch experiment Station during the past five years, which it is believed are worth the con- sideration of all who keep fowls for eggs. These experiments have been directed to the elucidation of but a few of the many questions which present themselves to every intelligent person who cares, for hens, and this article, which will be based upon the results of our own work, makes no pretense to being a comprehensive paper upon the subject. The questions upon which we have attempted to throw light are as follows: 1. The relative value of vegetable as compared with animal foods as sources of the albuminoids (nitrogen- ous or flesh forming part) of food. 2. A comparison of dried animal or flesh meal with fresh cut bone as foods for laying hens. 3. The value of condition powders as an ingredient in the food of hens. 4. The influence of the presence of a cock with the hens upon the production of eggs. An earnest effort has been made in planning and carrying out these experiments to eliminate all disturbing influences— to insure, in short, in every instance perfect fairness, perfect equality in all conditions other than the one variation in feed or treatment which constituted the subject of experiment. It is to be feared that in many of the private experiments which have been carried out such equality in conditions has not always been secured. The one feed or treatment is tried dur- ing one part of the year—another during some other period— or perhaps even, one method of feeding has been the subject of experiment one year; another method some later year. It must be evident that under these conditions results cannot fairly
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