DIVISION OF POULTRY 



969 



SESSIONAL PAPER No. 16 



Table No. 12. — Eggs for Hatching shipped to and from Ottawa by Express and 



Parcel Post. 



Note. — The egg broken in the shipment to Nappan had a thin shell, and was hardly 

 the result of the shipping. 



The average time of the four shipments was: Parcel post 72 hours, and the cost 

 25 i cent-s, as against 90 hours and 45 cents for express. 



The length of time in the delivery of the eggs expressed to Brandon was owing 

 to the fact that they arrived on Saturday and Monday was a holiday so that it was 

 Tuesday before they were delivered. The two lots of eggs arrived by the same train 

 and the eggs by parcel post were delivered the same evening that they arrived. 



-The results of other shipments were not received in time for this report, but the 

 indications are that for one setting packages the parcel post is quicker, cheaper, and 

 apparently quite as safe, though it must be remembered that in case of loss there is 

 no recourse. 



THE VALUE OF SCREENINGS AS OBTAINED FROM THE PORT ARTHUR 

 AND FORT WILLIAM ELEVATORS FOR POULTRY FEEDING. 



This experiment was undertaken at the suggestion of Mr. George H. Clark, Seed 

 Commissioner, and we are indebted to him and to Mr. J. R. Dymond, in charge of 

 the Seed Laboratory at Calgary, for the sample of seeds furnished for the experi- 

 ment. Dr. Frank T. Shutt, Dominion Chemist, also co-operated in the experiment 

 and made the analysis of the different grains fed. Dr. Chas. H. Higgins, Dominion 

 Pathologist, made a post mortem examination of all the birds. 



The purpose of the experiment was to find out if this material, the bulk of which 

 is now being sent to the United States, was valuable for poultry food, and also if any 

 of the weed seeds were poisonous. 



The feed as it was received here was (1) scalpings, (2) screenings, (3) wild buck- 

 wheat, (4) black seeds. Tlie black seeds were again subdivided into (5) lamb's quar- 

 ters, (6) wild mustard, and (7) tumbling mustard. 



Ottawa. 



