POULTRY NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 1952, 23 July 1891, Page 5

POULTRY NOTES.

RESULT OF FEED UPON POULTRY. Professor I. P. Roberts, director of the Cornell University Experiment Station, has been experimenting with fowls as to the different effects of nitrogenous and carbonaceous rations. So far as it is warrantable to draw any conclusions from a single experiment of this kind, it would seem that chickens fed on an exclusive corn diet will not make a satisfactory development, particularly of feathers. The bones of chickens fed upon a nitrogenous ration are 50 per cent, stronger than those fed upon a carbonaceous ration. Hens fed on a nitrogenous ration lay more eggs, but of smaller Bize and poorer quality, than those fed exclusively on corn. Hens fed on corn, while not suffering in general health, become sluggish, deposit large masses of fat on the internal organs, and lay a few eggs of large size and excellent quality. The flesh of nitrogenousfed fowls contains more albuminoids and less fat than those fed on a carbonaceous ration, and ia darker coloured, jucier, and tenderer. At the end of the experiment little difference could be eeen in the hens of the two groups ; but the two lots of chicker.s were in ttriking oontraßt. While the chickens fed on nitrogenous food ware large, plump, heailby, active, and well feathered, the chickens fed ca a carbonaceous ration were in general much enaaiL-r, Biokly, and in several cases almost destitute of feathers, Two of Ihera bad perfectly bare backs, and fo ravsnous wero they for flesh and blood that they brgan oatiog one another. The ionb ; lity of the cLickena fed on a carbonaceous diot to thiow oufc new fc-aibere, and the ability of the chickens fed oa a nitrogenous diet to tfrov/ &n I'jioJini'U.* coat of feathers, is 3 Kplsndid illustration of the tffeofc of the composition of ths food in supplying certain requirsm^ntß of aciusal growth. It was plain to see that ;j-. -, r z , cvac whaa assisted by ft small ainoncf <> r w!r£&t End Risen clover, could not en p ply it<fnVei,t nitrogen for the growth «.f fcat'o^ii-.

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