94 EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



6-7 EDWARD VII., A. 1907 



When fully feathered the mothers of the hen-hatched chickens should be removed from 

 them. The chickens will be found to return to their coops as usual, and they are al- 

 lowed to remain in them until removed to more commodious quarters in colony houses. 

 On the incubator-hatched chickens becoming too large for the brooders they were also 

 removed to colony houses. 



AVINTER LAYING. 



Winter laying commenced early in the month of December and continued dur- 

 ing the winter season. Different rations were fed to fowls of different breeds, and 

 the trap nests proved valuable in distinguishing the good from the bad layers. 



