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THE utilization of feed by growing chickens is a subject of considerable economic importance as well as of general scientific interest. The daily feed intake of a growing chicken must serve a variety of needs; only a portion of the total feed eaten is available for producing a gain in live weight. A study of the utilization of that portion of the feed intake which remains to be used for growth, after the requirements for other metabolic processes have been satisfied, should be of much help in devising suitable diets for growing chickens. In a recent paper the authors (1931) suggested that the curve of the diminishing increment might be useful in making a preliminary study of this problem. The differential form of the equation of the curve of the diminishing increment was written: dWdF=C−mW in which the constant, C, was interpreted to represent the gain in live weight which the . . .
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Hendricks et al. (1932) studied this question.
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