Excerpt from Poultry Experiments in 1899 They consumed 477 pounds Of meal and 84 gallons Of skimmed milk. The forty chickens weighed at the commence ment Of the test pounds and at its close pounds and had gained pounds, an average Of pounds per chicken live weight. The quantity Of the dry meal required to produce a pound of gain was pounds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.