The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-06-23
POULTRY EXPERIMENTS.
Bulletin From Utah Experiment
Station On Subject.


Bulletin No. 60 of the Utah expert
ment station reports the second year:
results of experiments with poultry. L
is a continuation of the work reported
| in bulletin No. 81 The objects of the
| experiment are stated as follows:
l. The relative value of year-old hen:
and of pullets.
2. The effect of exercise.
3. The relative value of early and OF
| late Matched pullets.
A. The yearly food cost per fowl.
5. The average yearly production OF
eggs per hen.
breeds.
Z. The relative fertility of eggs under
| different treatments.
s. The relative fertility of fresh and
| of old eggs.
g The merits of different incuba-
tors.
10. The effect of different methods in
/ artificial incubation.
| The bulletin, which may be had free
on application to Luther Foster, di-
rector experiment station, Logan, Utah
| gives full details as to the manner OF
| conducting the experiments, together
| with all the data, or summaries OF
them, collected during the year. There
| are several half-tone cuts of the fowls
used in the experiments; also exterior
and interior views of the poultry house.
The relative profit from pullets, year.
old hens and old hens is shown graph
ically by photographs of three baskets
of eggs, a very large one representing
the profit from pullets, small one for
the year-old hens, and a very small
one for the old hens. At the end of
the bulletin summary of the results
is given, as follows:
Summary.
The following summarizes the results
of the experiments as detailed in this
| bulletin. Some comparisons are made
with the results reported in bulletin
No. 81:
l. During the year it cost an aver
age of 64.3 cents per fowl for food for
two pens of r. c. brown leghorn year.
old hens. During their first year the
cost was Gil cents per fowl.
.. AS pullets they laid an average of
175 eggs per fowl during the year, worth
Sis; as year-oldS they averaged 1929
eggs. worth $685..
3. The average food cost per dozen
of eggs was 4.3 cents during the first
year, and cents the second year, or
40 per cent in favor of the first year.
4. During the first year, as pullets,
there was profit of 1SS per cent on
olds.
5. Further experiments are necessary
to determine definitely the relative
value of fowls for egg production at
different ages.
6. The best egg record during the sec
ond year was made by a pen of brown
leghorn pullets, Matched June 10. They
laid an average of 1916 eggs per fowl
worth $1.1S, at a food cost of COS cents
equal to "A cents per dozen. The per
cent profit on food was 194. Two pens
of April-hatched pullets averaged 159
eggs, making a profit of about 1874 per
cent on food cost. The pen of late
Matched pullets was of a different strain
from the others, and was reared under
different conditions, and the results are
not, therefore, 10 be accepted as prov
ing anything as to the best time for
Matching.
Z AS to the effect of exercise, contra
dictory results were secured. During
the first year of pens and 4, it re-
quired % per cent less food to produce
a dozen eggs with the exercise than
without it. During the second year of
the same pens the results are decidedly
in favor of the pen without the exer-
else. The test with pullets during the
same year gives inconclusive results
on the same question.
8. Exercise had little apparent effect
on the weight of the fowl, that little
being a slight increase in weight
9. The eggs from the two pens with
out exercise averaged per cent heavier
than those from the two exercised pens.
This confirms results of the previous
year.
10. The eggs from pens and 4 weigh
ed 3i2 per cent more during their sec
ond year than during their first.
II. The exercised pens consumed
trifie more food than those without the
exercise.
. y. The eggs from the two pens of
light brahmas weighed an average of
1.64 pounds per dozen; those from the
five pens of brown leghorns averaged
LAG per dozen, or about u per cent in
favor of the former.
Note-The conditions We're not all IA
vorable during the year for the high
est egg production.