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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



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Horticulturist — Concluded, 



Strawberries, report on 140 



yield and health of foliage of 142-443 



largest yields of 144 



Tobacco experiments 105 



Mackay, A., Superintendent Experimental 



Farm, Indian Head, N.W.T., report of. . . 33S 



Poultry Manager, report of the 227 



Aekni iwledgments 227 



Andalusians 23', 



Black Minorcas 23'. 



Bones, cut green 23'' 



Breeding pens made up 24; 



Breeding stock 23 I 



Buff Cochins 241 



Chickens, growth of 24'. > 



Coloured Dorkings 244 



Crosses, made 24(1 



Ducks, Aylesbury 250 



Pekin 250 



Eggs laid 23. > 



set and chickens hatched 24^ 



loss in weight of during incubation . . . 24:; 



Feeding, scienceof 23.'; 



Fowls, morning rations for 234 



( rreen food, advantages of 232 



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 Poultry Manager — Concluded. 



Houdans 238 



Incubator, trial of 24(i 



Langshans 240 



Layers of large eggs 230 



Laying stock 234, 235 



treatment of 227-235 



rations for 228-231-234 



Light Brahmas 239 



New stock, purchase of 250 



Plymouth Rocks, barred 212 



white 243 



Poultry, diseases of 247 



Rations 228 



Silver-laced Wyandottes 244 



White Leghorns 237 



White Plymouth Rocks 243 



White Wyandottes 244 



Robertson, J. W., Agriculturist, report of . . . 77 



Saunders, Wm., Director, report of. 



Sharpe, Thos. A., Superintendent Experimen- 

 tal Farm, Agassiz, report of 387 



Shutt, F. T., Chemist, report of 147 



