REPORT OF TEE POULTRY MANAGER 



SESSIONAL PAPER Nc. 16 



RECEIPTS FROM SALE OF EGGS 



Value of eggs sold during the year 



Gain made by this pen 



or 57 cents per hen. Average number of eggs laid per hen, 72. 



$11 59 

 $5 71 



217 



ESTABLISHING STRAINS OF PROLIEIC WINTER LAYERS COMBINED 



WITH CORRECT MARKET TYPE. 



SELECTION BY MEANS OF TRAP NESTS. 



With the object of establishing strains of fowls which would make good winter 

 layers in unheated quarters, combined with correct market types, 23 Barred Plymouth 

 Rock and a similar number of White Wyandotte pullets were placed, during the fall 

 of last year, in a new poultry house of most approved pattern, a full description and 

 illustration of which appeared in report of 1904. Both varieties of the fowls named 

 are well known as most acceptable market types and particularly suited to make ex- 

 cellent layers in cold quarters. Trap nests were used to distinguish between the good 

 and the bad layers. The results of the first year's exi>erience in the prosecution of this 

 work is given in the following tables, which with calculations based thereon convey 

 useful and instructive information. 



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Table 1. — Barred Plymouth Rock pullets. Individual records shown by trap nests. 



Pen 34. 



FROM DECEMBER 1, 1904 TO NOVEMBER 1, 1905. 



None of the pullets in this or the following pen were used for sitters. 



The cock bird died during first week in May, but was replaced. 



The average egg production of the birds in this pen was 63^ eggs per hen per year. 



