REPORT OF THE POULTRY MANAGER 



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SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



The experience gained in this case is clearly in favour of the unhealed house 

 system of poultry-keeping. 



The experiment also shows a gain of 10 eggs per hen over the same number of 

 fowls of 1907. This may, however, be the result of breeding from the best layers, as 

 shown by the trap-nest. 



BENEFIT OF TRAP-NEST SELECTION. 



EXPERIMENT IN UNHEATED HOUSE, HAYING TWO DH'ISIONS WITH SCRATCH-SHED ATTACHMENT 



TO EACH DIVISION. 



The following experiment was carried on in an unhealed house, divided into two 

 compartments, with a scratch-shed attachment to each. The compartments were 

 numbered 35 and 36, respectively. The first contained 14 Barred Plymouth Rock 

 hens, the second 10 White Wyandottes. Details are shown. in the following table of 

 results : — 



Table 9 — ^Pen 35. — Showing results ascertained by trap-nets, from 14 Barred Ply- 

 mouth Rock hens, two years of age. 



The rations given to above fowls were the same as shown in Table 7. 



QUANTITY OF FOOD CONSUMED. 



Whole grain 864 pounds. 



Ground grain, made into mash 203 " 



Vegetables, &c 186 " 



Cut bone 87 . " 



Ground oyster shells 43 " 



Grit 43 « 



REMARKS ON ABOVE TABLE. 



The gain in the number of eggs, by breeding from stock selected by trap-nest 

 records, is shown to be 13 eggs per fowl over the results for 1907-8. 

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