REPORT OF MR. S. A. BEDFORD. 



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The following are the live weights reached by fowls of the different breeds. 



Variety. 



Barred Plymouth Rock, cock 



" cockerel 



hen 

 pullet 



White Leghorn, cock 



cockerel 



pullet . 



Black Minorca, cockerel 



pullet, 

 Light Brahma, cock 

 hen 



Insects were destroyed by removing the fowls, and setting fire to a pound of sulphur 

 in an iron receptacle and closing the building tightly for four or five hours. 



Grit and water was kept at all times before the fowls when in confinement and 

 any dry grain fed them was mixed with the straw chaff which always covered the floor 

 of their house, the search for this gave the fowls exercise. 



Hens purchased from a neighbouring farmer were found to be infested with scaly 

 leg, this was cured by brushing the legs with coal oil, two applications ; a week apart 

 being found sufficient. 



HORTICULTURE. 



Apples. 



Apple trees suffered more last winter than on any preceding year, many of the 

 trees planted in the spring of 1893 being killed root and branch, more particularly 

 those in the orchard on the hill side. No doubt this result was largely due to the snow 

 being swept away by winds. Some of this consignment of trees were planted promiscu- 

 ously in the forest tree shelter belt and receiving the benefit of snow drifts survived, 

 although badly damaged by frost. 



Below is a list of survivors of this set of trees : — 



Saccharine, 

 Sugar Sweet, 

 White Pigeon, 

 Titovka Koslov, 

 Polumiron, 



The trees killed root and branch are 



Hare Pipka, 

 Little Hat, 

 Persian Bogdanoff, 

 Charlamoff, 

 Miron Grell, 

 Orel No. 27, 

 Orel No. 5, 

 Red Streaked, 

 Cinnamon Pine, 

 Plodovitka, 



Silken Leaf, 

 Winter Stripe, 

 Round Borsdorf, 

 Grandmother, 

 Borsdorf, 



Karabovka, 

 Golden Reinetto, 

 Simbirsk No. 11, 

 Simbirsk No. 3, 

 Simbirsk No. 5, 

 Early Sweet, 

 Green Crimean, 

 Arabka, 

 Rambour Reinette. 



The thirty-one Russian apple tree seedlings protected by scrub which have stood 

 for four winters, are still alive, but are more or less injured each year by frost. 



