432 



EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



9-10 EDWARD VII., A. 1910 



Page. 

 Macoun, W. T., Horticulturist of the 

 Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, 

 Ont., Report of 103 



Murray, James, Superintendent Experi- 

 mental Farm, Brandon, Man., Re- 

 port of 273 



Poultry Manager — Report of 225 



Acknowledgments 225 



Artificial hatching and rearing of 



chicks 234-235 



Building up hardy and prolific egg 



laying strains of fowls 234-241 



Breeding pens made up 2.33 



Beginning of winter laying 236 



Breeding from good and poor egg 



laying strains of fowls 243 



Cotton front house severely tested.. .. 239 



Diseases of Poultry 231-245 



Deductions from trial of cotton front 



house 240 



First pullets to tegin laying 2.36 



Frozen Wheat Experiments 236 



Hatching by hens 235 



" incubators 235 



Incubation results 235 



Late Hatching 243 



Lessons learned from correspondence.227-232 

 List of stock at end of year 245 



. Page. 

 Poultry Manager — Report of — Con. 



Latest style of poultry house 230 



Moulting in summer 2.33 



Number of eggs laid during the year.. 236 



Poultry house with cotton front. . . . 239 



Progress of the chicks 235 



Rations fed to difierent groups of 



hens and chickens 232-236-243 



Sick birds 245 



Sale of stock 236 



Trap nest selection 241 



Visitors 245 



White diarrhoea of young chicks.. ..2.35-236 



Robertson, R., Superintendent, Experi- 

 mental Farm, Nappan, N.S., Report 



of 247 



Saunders, C. E., Cerealist, Report of.. 199 



Saunders, Wm., Director, Report of.. .. 5 



Report of Ento- 

 mological and Botanical Division 37 



Sharpe, Thos. A., Superintendent, Ex- 

 perimental Farm, Agassiz, B.C.. Re- 

 port of 397 



Shutt, F. T.. Chemist, Report of 137 



