5-6 EDWARD VII. SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 A. 1906 



REPORT OF THE POULTRY MANAGER. 



(A. G. Gilbert.) 



Ottawa, December 1, 1905. 

 To Dr. Wm. Saunders, C.M.G., 



Director Dominion Experimental Farms, 

 Ottawa. 



Sir, — I have great pleasure in submitting to you the eighteenth annual report of 

 the Poultry Division of the Central Experimental Earm. 



Whether discussing some of the more recent phases of poultry development or 

 giving detailed account of the experimental work carried on during the past year, 

 there was always the intention of conveying to the farmers of the country and others 

 interested such information as would be found of practical benefit to them. 



With (this object in view the first portion of the report is devoted to the considera- 

 tion of eertain changes which have lately taken place in the home market, the re- 

 quirements of which, while they have become more exacting, have also become more 

 valuable. 



A number of extracts are quoted from letters written by farmers who not only 

 show in these quotations large margins of profit made by them in catering, with poul- 

 try products of the best quality, to the more exacting demands referred to; but also 

 describe their methods of management and the rations used by them in bringing about 

 these profitable results. 



The second part of the report gives detailed acconnt of the experimental work ox 

 the year which, for the most part, was carried on under the immediate supervision 'of 

 my assistant, Mr. Victor Eortier. To his careful and systematic recording of the 

 data relating to the different experiments in combination with a thorough knowledge 

 of ths de'aills of poultry breeding, much of the interesting experience gain'ed is to be 

 attributed. 



I have pleasure in acknowledging the attention and correctness shown by Mr. 

 Summers in securing results of the trap test, and other experiments entrusted to his 

 care. Mr. George Deavey has been active and regular in the performance of the work 

 allotted to him. 



During the latter part of the season a small poultry house of new pattern with 

 scratching shed attachment was erected and will be used in promoting the work of 

 building up hardy and prolific winter egg laying strains of fowls. 



Addresses were given by the vn-iter during the year at different points through- 

 out the country. 



Mr. Eortier addressed meetings, or attended poultry shows at St. Therese, Cowans- 

 ville, St. Hyacinthe, Three Eivers, Quebec City, Eiviere du Loup and St. Justin, in 

 the province of Quebec, and Ottawa, later in the year. 



An exceedingly useful and instructive exhibition was made by our Division at 

 the Central Canada Exhibition held during the second and third weeks of the month 

 of September last. The display showed the methods adopted and appliances used in 

 the prosecution of the work of our department as well as a number of birds of very 

 fine type and quality, which received much appreciative comment. 



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