The Influence of Certain Methods of Management on Egg Production

Abstract

I. Concluded. Their influence from March to August.The first report on these experiments was carried to March 1st, 1924. (Goodale ’24.) The monthly egg yield to August first, when the experiments were discontinued, is given in table III which shows essentially the same production in each group except the one receiving milk, whose production, calculated from the grouped data instead of the ungrouped data of table III, exceeds that of the cod-liver oil, lights lot, which has the lowest production, by 9.3±4.2 eggs, a difference that cannot with certainty be attributed to the milk in the ration. The several methods of management employed, therefore, can be said to be without marked influence on egg production.It is necessary to record a disturbing factor which inadvertently affected only a part of the birds. Late in January, the older half of each group, previously in pens of twenty-five each, were combined, .