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Show TRIAL OF HOPPER FEEDING Test at West Virginia Station Shows Egg Production at Lower Cost Than Other System. In bulletin 130 of the West Virginia station a report Is given of a trial of the hopper-feeding system for poultry, poul-try, which was installed in order to save labor. In a year's test, with five pens of white Leghorns, the cost of food varied from (iS cents to $1.04 per fowl per year, and averaged 90 cents ' per fowl for the 100 fowls in the experiment. ex-periment. The egg production varied from SI. 4 eggs per hen, when fed principally upon corn, to 24.7 in the pen which received whole grain once per day, scattered in litter, and dry mash and beef scrap without limit in a hopper. The food cost of the eggs during year varied from 8.5 cents to 11.9 cents per dozen. Two pens, hopper fed, produced pro-duced eggs having a lower food cost than the pen which received moistened moist-ened mash, and in this test there was apparently no benefit from the extra labor Involved in moistening the mash. |