The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-06-08
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IN II
EXPERlME NTS.
Some Interesting Facts In Relation
to Poultry Raising.


The Utah experiment station has just
issued bulletin 60, giving results of the
second years experiments with poul.
4, try, the objects being as follows:
L. The relative value Of ycar-old hens
and of pullcts. p The effect of exer.
, else. 3. The relative value of early and
of late Matched pullets. 4. The yearly
food cost per fowl. }. The average
yearly production of eggs per hen. 6.
The weight Of eggs from different
breeds. T. The relative fertility of eggs
under different treatments. ). The rela.
tive fertility of fresh and Of old eggs.
8. The merits Of different incubators
10 The effect Of different methods in
artificial incubation.
The following summarizes the results
70 the experiments as detailed in this
bulletin. Some comparisons are made
with the results reported in Bulletin
No. 81, which gives results of first
years experiments
/. During tn year it cost an average
of 64.3 cents per fowl for food for two
pens of L. c. Brown Leghorn year-old
hens. During the first year the cost
was Gil cents per fowl.
2. As pulletS they laid an average
of 175 eggs per fowl during the year,
worth SITS; as year-oldS they aver
aged 1925 eggs worth $780,
5. The average food cost per dozen Of
eggs was As cents during the first year
and 6 cents the second year. or 40 per
cent. in favor Of the first year.
4. During the first year as pulletS.
there was a profit of 1SS per cent. on
cost Of food, and l1S per cent. as year
olds.
8. Further cNperm MS are Necessary
to determine Il tiuitcly 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 pullctS, Matched June 10. They
laid an averaged Of lG4G eggs per fowl,
worth SITS. at a food cost Of COS
cents. equal to "A cents per dozen. The
per cent profit on food WAS 1914 Two
pens Of APril-hatched pullrts averaged
100 eggs, making n profit of about ISL
per cent. on food cost. The pen OF
late Matched pulets was Of q different
strain from the others and was reared
under different conditions ana the re-
suits are not. therefore to he accepted
rs proving anything as to the best time
for Matching.
I. As to the best time for exercise,
contradictory results We're secured.
During the first year Of pens 3 and I
II required - per cent. less food TO
produce n dozen of eggs with the eNer-
else than without it. During the sec
ond year Of the same pens, the results
are decidedly in favor OF the pen with
out the exercise The test with pullets
during the same year gives conclusive
results on the same question.
s. Exercise had little apparent effect
on the weight of The fowl, that littlo
being slight increase in weight
Q. The eggs from III two pens with
out exercise averaged 1 per cent. heav.
Ter than those from the two exercised
pms. This confirms results of the prev
ious year.
10. The eggs from pens 3 ana 4
weighed 3l5 per cent more during their
second year than during the first.
II. The exercise pens consumed n
trifle more food than those without the
exercise.
u. The eggs from the two pens Of
Light BrahmaS weighed an average Of
1.64 pounds per dozen; those from TIE
five pens of Brown Leghorns averaged
LAG per dozen; or about l per cent in
favor of the former.
A Pair of Pekins.