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a noticeable feature that there was only one ease of White Diarrhoea among tlie in- 

 cubator-hatched chickens. Previous to use, the incubators and brooders were sprayed 

 with a well-known disinfectant. Care had also been taken, after the chickens came 

 out of the shells, to prevent them falling from the tray of the incubator to the nursery 

 below, where the temperature was several degrees lower, as there was reason to suspect 

 that this gave them a chill, which past observations point to as a predisposing cause of 

 White Diarrhoea. Precautions against chill were continued after the chickens were 

 placed in the brooders. 



Further close observation is being made and interesting results are expected. 



DEMAND FOR SPARE STOCK. 



Towards the fall, the chickens were well matured and the spare birds were sold 

 for breeding purposes. The birds sold numbered 66 males and 69 females of different 

 varieties. 



WHEN THE PULLETS COMMENCED TO LAY. 



The first pullets to begin to lay were all hatched during the first week in May. 

 They laid their first eggs as follows : — 



Buff Orpington pullet, first egg on October 28, 1908. 

 ' Barred Plymouth Eoek pullet, first egg on November 26, 1908. 

 White Leghorn pullet, first egg on November 27, 1908. 



White Wyandotte pullet, first egg on December 7, 1908. , 



White Orpington pullet, first egg on December 17, 1908. 



NUMBER OF EGGS LAID DURING YEAR. 



The following is a list of the number of eggs laid during the different months of 

 the year: — 



1908— 



April .• 2,837 



May 2,433 



June 1,015 



July 1,690 



August 1,084 



September 801 



October 179 



November 48 



December 620 



1909— 



January 1,122 



February 1,463 



March 2,119 



15,411 



EXPERIMENTS IN FEEDING FROZEN WHEAT (WHOLE AND GROUND) 



TO POULTRY. 



With the view of ascertaining the value of frozen as compared with sound wheat, 

 when fed to poultry, the following experiment was conducted from February 20 to 



