Show EXPENSE OF PRODUCING EGGS writer in oregon agricultural college bulletin gives results of his experiment james 8 dryden writing in the oregon agricultural college relates the results of some interesting experiments made by him covering several years in which every ounce ot food consumed by six pens ot leg boms was weighed the six pens ot hena consumed during the year pounds ot wheat pounds ot corn pounds ot oats pounds ot bran and shorts and pounds ot skim milk in addition to some animal food the cost ot the total food per fowl tor the year varied in different pens from 61 cents to 78 cents and averaged 66 cents the wheat was charged at one cent a pound corn at one and one quarter cents oats at one cent skim milk at a fifth of a cent and bran and shorts at three fifths of a cent the animal food cost from five to six cents per fowl the wheat constituted near ly a halt of the total cost the hens laid an average of eggs per fowl |