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Show !HENS ON WHEATLESS RATION Results Given of Experiments Conducted Con-ducted With Pullets at Ohio Agricultural Station. When wheat costs more per pound than corn, it has little to commend it as feed for laying hens. Egg producing pro-ducing is low and mortality is high when wheat constitutes most of the ration. Fifty pullets fed a ration of SI per cent corn with bran, oil meal and meat scrap averaged S9.5 eggs in one year at the Ohio agricultural experiment station. A second lot fed a similar ration except that wheat replaced core laid 95 eggs per hen in the same time. Four hens in the corn lot died and 23 in the wheat lot. v Two lots of 50 hens were fed these rations a year later. The corn-fed hens produced 2.S45 eggs in 24 weeks and all lived. Those fed mainly wheat laid only 1.590 eggs in the same time and 22 died. |