976 EXPERIMENTAL FARMS 



5 GEORGE v., A. 1915 



EXPERIMENTAL STATION, CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. 



REPORT OF SUPERINTENDENT, J. A. CLARK. B.S.A, 



POULTRY. 



A beginning was made this year toward the establishment of a poultry plant at 

 this Station. A Prairie State incubator was filled with 120 Barred Plymouth Rock 

 eggs on April 30, 1913; from this setting there were forty-one matured birds on Nov- 

 ember 1; eleven cockerels and thirty pullets. These pullets began laying November 

 21. They continued laying well throughout the winter. The second hatch came out 

 on June 17, from bred-to-lay Barred Plymouth Rock stock ; 108 eggs were set that , 

 gave forty-five matured birds November 21; twenty-two cockerels and twenty-three 

 pullets. The pullets began laying December 8. To determine what could be done 

 with a late hatch, 130 White Leghorn eggs were set June 25, On December 1 there 

 were forty-three birds from this lot, nineteen cockerels and twenty-four pullets. These 

 pullets began laying January 7, 1914. 



The best cockerels were sold for breeding purposes at $2 each. The balance were 

 crate-fattened and sold at 12 cents and 14 cents per pound. 



Three Barred Rock cockerels and one White Leghorn cockerel were purchased to 

 mate with the four pens of pullets. 



The equipment at the close of the year consisted of four colony houses on skids. 

 Two were of the Macdonald type, 12 feet by 8 feet, two with cotton fronts and shed 

 roofs 12 feet by 10 feet. One Simplex Brooder house 18 feet by 10 feet, and two 

 dmall colony houses for maturing stock, a Tamlin incubator and other poultry sup- 

 plies were ndded, so that the poultry plant has now good equipment for a limited num- 

 ber of birds. 



