Show THERE IS MONEY IN POULTRY bulletin no 61 of the utah experiment station has been received in it are reported results of poultry expert ments conducted at the station during the year ending november 1897 A number of experiments alre ae reported and in some cases the results are very I 1 positive they include tests of old hens and pullets for er ep production of the egg laying qualities of brown leg horns barred plymouth rocks light brahman and a brahma leghorn crow cross the annual food cost per fowl of the different breeds and the yearly prodoc tion of eggs per hen were import important aut features of the experiments the relative value of old eggs and fresh araw for hatching was also tested an incubator test was conducted A number of halftone half tone cuts are reproduced which include one of the poultry building several photographs of fowls and of two baskets of eggs one a very large basket representing the laying of the pullets lets the other a very small one rep reo resenting the work of the old hens the latter is a striking lesson of the value of young blood the bulletin a copy of which may be obtained free on application to director luther experiment station logan utah Is summarized as follows 1 there is little profit in keeping hens three and four years old at the market prices of food and eggs in utah the profit in feeding young hens pr r pullets was six times greater than in feeding old hens three and four years yeara old this conclusion does not apply to tw two year old hens and hens more than 2 leghorn pullets hatched in april gave better results than those hatched hatch cl in late may the profit was waa about one and a half times greater from the april hatched than from the may hatched 3 the exercised pens 4 5 and 6 produced 26 eggs per fowl more than the pens without exer exercise else 1 2 and 3 4 the three exercised pens produced eggs at food cost coat of 43 cents per dozen the pens without exercise at a food cog coat of 65 cents per dozen J 5 the three exercised pens avera averaged gd EL a profit per fowl during the year ot of 84 cents thel the non exercised pens 66 rents cents 6 pen 1 representing egg production under the most unfavorable condit torin except as to ration fed cleared 2 cents per fowl during the year on the cost of food pen 4 representing ess e production under the most favorable conditions cleared during the year per fowl this would have been la in creased considerably had the eggs bald before the experiment began been counted in one case there was a profit on feed of 5 per cent in the other per cent 7 exercise had no apparent influx ence on the weight of the fowl thy the lack of exercise exer clae did not add to the weight of the fowl 8 the non exercised pens produced eggs weighing about 3 per cent more than the exercised pens 9 the eggs produced by the old leghorn hens weighed about 5 per cent more than those produced by the leg horn pullets pullet a 10 the eggs produced by the light brahma pullets weighed 11 per cent more than those produced by the leg horn pullets 11 the barred plymouth rode rock pullets eggs averaged aver averack ared ed about the same as those of the leghorn pullets 12 in two out of three pens exer else produced a larger consumption iM of food 13 the exercised pens made a better use of the food than those without exercise it required 22 per cent is lewt food to produce a dozen of eggs with exercise than without it the results are strongly conclusive that exercise aids digestion and assimilation of 0 food the chief value of exercise therefore seems to be in preventing of food 14 exercise apparently reduced the percentage of fertility in the eggs 15 the percentage of fertility vas highest with the early hatched pullets pullet and lowest with the old hens though the results are not conclusive 16 the fertility of eggs averaging five days old was per cent highet higher than of eggs averaging twenty two days old 17 the results noted above weri were lie 06 cured from what was considered 4 A SV bood ration fed alike to all pens i practically the same ration was fed the year the conclusions fai tite therefore must not be accepted if a different ration i used is the results seem to indicate an average capacity for a leghorn pullet of eggs per year with intelligent ooze care and feeding 1 19 no advantage was discovered in f juro rosans ross gIng ns the brahma and leghorn a 20 in a single test of the prairie state and jubilee incubators the for mer hatched 64 per cent of fertile eggs f the latter 81 per cent the following interesting paragraph te Is taken from page 15 prom from p rom a study of table no 3 it will toe be seen that the only correct answer to the question Is there money in hens is it depends it depends on the kind and amount of food con F fumed the number of eggs laid and the ilie price of eggs when laid the statement that there is no money in hews hens would doubtless be true if hens i 1 and add 9 only were considered A sati hf tetorY etory answer moreover could not the be obtained by taking the average of all the pens to prove such a statement it must be shown that there is f rao no money in hens under the best pos sible aible method of treatment the rec ora made by pen 4 the ideal pen of use the lot is the only one that should be consulted we see that for 62 cents f worth of food this pen produces eggs W orth 1188 per fowl a profit of on an investment of 62 cents or cr fy course these results will vary as the Js cost of food and the price of eggs e vary the money results can be figy figured urba out in any locality knowing the average food consumption and the V t product in eggs |