268 AGRICULTURE OF :\IAINE. 



The poultry plant is also situated on the University of Maine 

 canipus and includes two long houses built on the curtain 

 front plan. It is possible in these houses to carry over the 

 winter from 800 to 1000 laying hens. One of these long poul- 

 try houses is used for pedigree breeding work during the breed- 

 ing season in the spring. In this house it is possible to carry 

 from 200 to 300 breeding hens in such condition that the exact 

 pedigrees of their offspring may be recorded. The entire por- 

 tion of the poultry plant devoted to laying hens is equipped 

 with an improved form of trap nest which makes it possible to 

 obtain exact records of the egg production of each individual 

 bird. Besides these two laying houses the poultry plant has 

 a house 36x16 feet which is divided into three compartments 

 used for hospital purposes in connection with the experimental 

 work of the department and for special physiological investiga- 

 tions with poultry. The incubator house and brooder houses 

 include ample facilities for the annual hatching and rearing 

 of about 4000 pedigreed chickens during the breeding season 

 from April i to June i. There is also a well equipped labora- 

 tory on the poultry range that is chiefly used and especially 

 equipperl for physiological v,"ork. It includes three rooms 

 arranged in a linear series. The outer one of these rooms is 

 devoted to general laborator}- purposes and the conducting ot 

 post-mortem examinations on poultry. The two inner rooms 

 are devoted to experimental physiological work. The first of 

 these rooms is the sterilizing room and is equipped with the 

 usual instruments and facilities for the sterilization of instru- 

 ments, etc., including steam and hot air sterilizers. The last 

 room in the series in this laboratory is the experimenting room. 

 The rooms are so constructed as to be practically dust proof, 

 and the walls anrl ceilings are entirely covered with white 

 enamel which makes it possible to thoroughly sterilize the 

 rooms. 



HIGH MOOR FARM. 



The State legislature of 1909 purchased a farm upon which 

 the Maine Experiment Station "shall conduct scientific inves- 

 tigations in orcharding, corn and other farm crops." The farm 

 is situated in the counties of Kennebec and Androscoggin and ' 



