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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



7-8 EDWARD VII., A. 1908 



Page. 

 Horticulturist, Central Experimen- 

 tal Farm — Con. 



Potatoes .... 128' 



Scotch versus English seed 132 



Spraying experiments v/ith 131 



Test of resistance to blight and rot. 131, 13'2 



Test of varieties 119 



Twelve best yielding varieties of, aver- 

 age of five years 129 



Thirty miost productive, in uniform 



plots 120 



Yields of, from smaller plots 130 



Raspberries 118 



Seedling apples 104 



Seedling fruits received for examination . 102 



Sooty or Fly Speck fungus 123 



Shrubs, ornamental flowering, best thirty 143 



Spraying 121 



Experiments with potatoes 128 



Flour emulsion for destroying aphis.. 125 

 Flour emulsion, different methods of 



preparing ^. . 125 



Formulas for kerosene emulsion for 



destroying aphis 125 



Strawberries 118 



Hardiest 119 



The oringination of new fruits at the 



Central Experimental Farm 10& 



Tomatoes 133 



Experiments in pruning 136 



Six earliest varieties of, 19C6 135 



Test of varieties 133 



Twelve best yielding varieties, 1906 • . 135 



Vegetables . . 126 



Farmers' list of best 126 



Mackay, A., Superintendent Experimental 



Farm, Indian Head, Sask., Report of. . 337 



Macoun, W. T., Horticulturist of the Cen- 

 tral Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Ont., 



Report of 97 



Page. 



Poultry Manager— Report of the.. J. .. 257 



Acknowledgments 257 



A brief retrospect 258 



Building up hardy and prolific egg-laying 



strains of fowls 266 



Can there be too much exercise 261 



Chickens, progress of the 264 



how fed 264 



Commiencemient of winter lay':: z 265 



Diseases of Poultry 266 



Experimental work 257,262 



Exhibition at the Central Fair 272 



Establishing strains of prolific winter 



layers 266 



Eggs laid in 17 months 26Q 



Feeding hens and chickens, manner of.. 261 



First pullets to begin laying 26'5 



Hatching results from incubators 263 



Hopper system of feeding 262 



House with scratching shed 259 



without scratching shed 259 



Incubation, artificial 263,264 



Methods for distinguishing good from 



bad layers 262 



Number of eggs laid during 17 months.. 266 

 Number of eggs laid in on'- year by hens 



in cold house 268 



Number of eggs laid in one year by hens 



in house warmed 268,269 



Poultry development 257 



Preservation of eggs 272 



Rations fed to different pens of fowls . . 267 



Stock on hand, March 31, 1907 271 



Warm versus cold houses 266 



Winter houses for other provinces.. .. 260 

 Robertson, R., Superintendent, Experi- 

 mental Farm, Nappan, N.S., Report of 275 

 Saunders, C. E., Cerealist, Report of.. .. 235 

 Saunders, Wm., Director, Report of.. .. 3 

 Sharpe, Thos. A., Superintendent, Experi- 

 mental Farm, Agassiz, B.C., Report of 377 

 Shutt, F. T.. Chemist. Report of 149 



