Abstract You are so familiar with the general foods, rations, and principles involved in balancing rations and feeding for egg production that a general or extensive discussion of this subject would be unnecessary on this program. I will confine myself, therefore, to certain conditions and practices, the importance of which is often given but slight consideration by poultrymen who are feeding for egg production. I must admit at the outset that these opinions are based upon observations rather than upon experiments. There seems to be no one “best ration,” for we find different feeders getting satisfactory results from rations composed of very different proportions of the same or different feeds. Generally these rations vary in their nutritive ratio, but not so much in this respect as in the kind and amount of the different feeds. Because of the good results from rations unlike in the amount of various feeds used, it . . .