Show feeding experiments directed at missouri the missouri agricultural experiment station reports a series of feeding experiments in one case the hens w were ere given all the corn oats bran shorts and cornmeal they would consume but on these rations they were able to produce only CO 00 eggs in a years time it required 03 93 pounds of feed to produce a dozen eggs now when identically the same rations were ere fed but in addition three gallons of liquid skim milk or 1 pounds of commercial meat scrap was lidded added to the dally ration of hens the egg production was more than doubled and the teed feed required to ato duce a dozen eggs was reduced nearly 0 one ne half uy by adding 88 pounds of milk or 6 pounds of meat scrap to the yearly ration for each hen from 5 to 6 extra dozen eggs were produced while the extra cost of the ration amounted to 30 cents per hen per year the extra eggs produced were worth nt abt least five times the lie extra expense |