The herald., 1896-08-29

The amount of green or fresh food
equivalent to the above different
weights would be correspondngly in
creased. Prof. Wheeler further states
that these are the amounts taken by the
growing fowls, which normally attain
to the higher weights given, and which
are still immature and growing rapidly
when at five and six pounds average
weight
The nutritive ratio of the ration, or the
ratio between the flesh formers and fat
and heat producers, will vary according
to them aturity of the hen and the period
of feeding. The nutritive ratio in the
case OF growing chicks should be mar
rover, that Is, there should be in the ra =
tion larger proportion of flesh formers
than when the hen is mature or when
she Is being fattened for the market.
For the latter purpose the flesh formers
would be small compared to the fat and
heat producers ana the ration would be
wide or carbonaceous.
Nltfogenous and Carbonaceous Ra-
tons red.-Investigations in this
line were made at the Cornell station
by Mr.. j. L. Rice. Two lots of hens and
chicks were selected Lot were fed on
a nitrogenous ration, consisting of one
third wheat bran, one-thrd wheat
shorts and one-third cottonseed meal.
This mixture was fed in connection with
skim milk in proportion of one of the
mixture to two of skim milk Lot had
carbonaceouS ration, made up of
cracked maize and maize dough. Both
lots had a small amount of green clover
as long as it lasted and then cabbage.
The duration of the experiment was 125
days. The conclusions We're: So far as
it is warrantable to draw any from a
single experiment of this kind, it would
seem that:
Chickens fed on an exclusive corn diet
will not make a satisfactory develop
ment, particularly of feathers.
The bones of chickens fed on nitrogen
Gus ration are 80 per cent stronger than
those fed upon carbonaceous ration.
Hens fed on nitrogenous ration lay
more eggs but of smaller and poorer
quality than those fed on corn.
Hens fed on corn, while not suffering
III general become sluggish, deposit
large masses of fat on the ernal or
gans and lay but few eggs, though of
large size and excellent quality.
The flesh of the nitrcgenous-fed fowls
contains more albumi4oids and less fat
than those fed on a oarbonaceous ra-
tion, and is darker colored, jucier and
more tender.
Animal Versus Vegetable Foods-At
the Hatch experiment station an eX-
pertinent was made with view of as
&C ctrtaining which was the better for egg
production, animal or vegetable foods
The results were decisive against the
vegetable food and in favor of the ami
NAL, in ofar as effect upon egg produc-
tion is concerned. The fowls receiving
animal food were, moreover, in much
better condition at the close of this eX-
pertinent than the othe-A.
Meat Meal Versus Cut Fresh Bone
Another experiment was undertaken al
the same station cone airing drted AMI
NAL. or meat meal, with cut fresh bone
A variety of foods supplied artificia
grit and oyster shells, were given ad lib
The results are undecisive, and the
experiment will be repeated, but the in
dications are that meat meal is a safer
feed than the bone. 1t is also a much
cheaper one, and if it will give practi-
cally as many eggs, it is to be preferred