POULTRY EXPERLMEXTS, 1905-6. 



G. ^I. GOWELL. 



[The poultry work of the Experiment Station was undertaken 

 primarily to study breeding for egg production and has been in 

 progress for several years. Two years ago the Bureau of 

 Animal Industry of the U. S. Department of Agriculture desired 

 to cooperate in the work and is now contributing $1,000 per year 

 to assist in the carrying forward of the breeding experiments. 

 Considerable unpublished data from these experiments have 

 accumulated, but it has been decided to hold this matter for 

 another year before it is published, at which time it will probably 

 be issued as a bulletin of the Bureau of Animal Industry. 



The following papers on poultry experiments have been pub- 

 lished. These are no longer available for distribution. A sum- 

 mary bulletin bringing the work up to date has been prepared 

 for the Bureau of Animal Industry and will be shortly issued 

 by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. This can be obtained 

 by addressing the Secretary of Agriculture, ^^'ashington, D. C. 

 X'^umber of Laying Hens that can be profitably kept in 



one Pen, Annual Report for 1898. 

 Feeding Chickens for Growth, Bulletin 64. 

 Breeding for Egg Production, Bulletin 64. 

 Feeding Chickens for Growth, Bulletin 79. 

 Experiments in Incubation, Bulletin 79. 

 Breeding for Egg Production, Bulletin 79. 

 Breeding for Egg Production. Bulletin 93. 



Floor Space, etc.. in relation to Egg Production, Bul- 

 letin 93. 

 Poultry Management as practiced at the Maine Station, 



Bulletin 100. 

 Poultry Experiments, 1903-5, Bulletin 117. 

 This bulletin (130) in addition to containing accounts of 

 experimental work, supplements bulletins 100 and 117 by out- 

 lining the methods of housing and handling the stock that have 

 been adopted since these bulletins were issued. — C. D. W.] 



