emoved.

EGGS LAID AND GAIN IN WEIGHT--HENS.
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| |
| Lot I. | Lot II.
| Nitrogenous. | Carbonaceous.
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| |
Live weight, July 26. | 23.53 | 23.56
" " November 27. | 21.31 | 22.00
Loss. | 2.22 | 1.56
Number of eggs laid. | 79.00 | 26.00
Weight " " " lb. | 8.25 | 2.92
Average weight of eggs, oz. | 1.67 | 1.80
Gain in weight, including eggs, lb. | 6.03 | 1.36
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GAIN IN LIVE WEIGHT--CHICKENS.
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| |
| Lot I. | Lot II.
| Nitrogenous. | Carbonaceous.
|______________|________________
| |
Live weight, July 26. | 8.94 | 9.06
" " November 27. | 17.89 | 12.63
Gain, lb. | 8.95 | 3.57
" per cent. | 100.11 | 39.40
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Samples of the eggs from each lot of fowls were privately marked and
sold to a boarding house where the cook did not know that the eggs
were undergoing a test. On meeting the cook several days later the
following words were heard: "Do you expect me to cook such eggs as
these! About every other one is spoiled." On examination of the
ovaries after slaughtering, it was found that in the case of one of
the carbonaceous fed hens the ovules were in a more advanced stage,
but on the whole the nitrogenous fed hens were much nearer the laying
period. With this single exception, the clusters of ovules in the
carbonaceous fed hens were uniformly small. Neither group would have
laid under any probability for seve