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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



9-10 EDWARD VII., A. 1910 



Careful selection of cocJc hird necessary. — Too much care cannot be taken in 

 selecting a cock-bird to head the breeding pen. The mistake is frequently made of 

 purchasing a cock-bird derived from a family of inferior layers to mate with hens of 

 proved merit. Such action is surely detrimental. 



Hens rather than pullets. — Unless absolutely unavoidable, pullets should not be 

 used to breed from. They are really undeveloped fowls, and no such immature speci- 

 men should be found in a breeding pen. 



ERRONEOUS IMPRESSION NO. 3, AND COMMENT THEREON. 



A third erroneous impression — especially common among the farming community 

 — is that any sort of building is good enough for the housing of poultry. 



Comment thereon. — As a result of this impression poultry-houses dilapidated, 

 lice-infested, ill-ventilated, unclean and improperly furnished are sometimes met with. 

 It is hardly necessary to remark that in such cases the birds are unprofitable. Poultry- 

 houses are now made which are easy and cheap of construction, while of the most 

 approved patterns. Plans of different styles of poultry-houses have been published 

 from time to time in previous reports of this Division. Perhaps the most inquired 

 for is the house with cotton front, as shown by frontispiece illustration in report of 

 last year and the house with cotton above and below the window. Both houses face 

 south. The interior fittings of both are very much the same. A circular showing 

 diagrams of the first named pattern of house with directions as to construction is in 

 course of preparation. When issued it will prove a useful guide to those who con- 

 template the erection of a structure on this plan. The second style of house is also 

 much inquired about. The following illustration shows the cotton frames above and 

 below the windows of one of the houses of the Pembroke, Ont., Poultry Plant, where 

 it has been severely tested for four years with satisfactory results. 



This illustration shows the cotton panels above and below the windows, at the 

 plant of the Poultry Yards of Canada, Pembroke, Ont. 



