ANIMAL PRODUCTION. 975 



iiig the poultry stock on liaiid, poultry oxhihitod, and poultry diseases. Accord- 

 ing to the author, the hopper method of feeding poultry has been adojited and 

 reasous for and against this practice are briefly spoken of. 



In the incubator tests eggs from unhealed and from warmed houses were 

 hatched which were placed in the incubators in March, April, and May. The 

 largest percentage of eggs which hatched was noted with the incubators filled 

 in May, and iu general the eggs from unheated houses hatched better than those 

 from warni(>d houses. According to the author, the results "go to emphasize 

 the advice given to farmers and other poultry keepers, in this and preceding 

 rei)orts, not to select eggs for hatching by incubator or hen until the fowls have 

 had opportunity, iu spring time, to run outside and recuperate from their long 

 term of winter life and treatment." 



Data are recorded regai-ding the method followed in the feeding of chickens 

 and the dates at which the first pullets began to lay. 



Warm v. cold houses were compared in work undertaken in connection with 

 the founding of hardy and prolific egg-laying strains of fowls. In a warm 

 house the average egg yield per year of 12 Barred Plymouth Rocks was 65.75 

 eggs per hen, and of a similar lot in an unheated house 70 eggs per hen. In 

 a house of the same sort with a cotton front scratching shed, the average egg 

 production of 13 White Wyandotte hens was 74.5 eggs per hen, of 9 Buff 

 Orpington pullets in a warmed house 58 eggs per hen, and of 12 White Leghorn 

 pullets in a warmed liouse 77.17 eggs per ben. 



As regards tlie record of individuals of good and poor strains as shown by 

 trap nests, 5 White Leghorn pullets of good strain averaged 101.4 eggs per hen 

 in a year and 5 pullets of poor strain 77.4 eggs per hen. 



The poultry industry in Oreg-on, J. Dryden {Oregon Htti. Bui. Dii. pp. '/O, 

 figs. 23). — On tlie basis of observation and information secured by inquiry, the 

 autlior discusses the possibilities of poultry raising under local conditions. 

 Though poultry raising as a whole has some considerable importance in Oregon, 

 lie believes that no branch of agriculture has been so generally neglected as 

 this, and that " the market conditions are favorable for increased production of 

 poultry and eggs in this State. In few sections of the country are the prices of 

 poultry and eggs better than they are in Oregon and on the Pacific coast gener- 

 ally. At the present time (December) fresh i-anch eggs are quoted in Portland 

 at 40 cts. per dozen wholesale, while consumers are paying as high as 50 ets. 

 At such a price a dozen eggs will about pay for the cost of food consumed by 

 the hen in a year when kept on a farm. The market quotations at Seattle on 

 the north and San Francisco on the south are higher than at Portland, and these 

 markets would take care of any possible surplus that might be produced in 

 Oregon." 



Data sununarized regarding the range in price of ranch eggs in Oregon and 

 the ])ossil)iIities of markets in neighboring States are discussed, as well as such 

 general questions as the i)ossil)ilities of the poultry industry, cost of labor, 

 poultry and ni'xed husbandry, climate? and soils in relation to poultry keeping, 

 and methods of housing. 



The preservation of eggs, F. T. Siiutt {Canada E.rpt. Farms Ritts. I<i0(j, 

 pp. 272, 273). — Continuing earlier work (E. S. R., 16, p. 298) on the relative 

 value of limewater and water glass solution for preserving eggs, a test was 

 made in whicli fertilized and nonfertilized eggs preserved with these solutions 

 were kept in stoppered bottles in the laboratory for i;> months where the tem- 

 perature varied from 60 to 80° F. and averaged about 68° F. 



According to the author, decidedly better results were obtained with the eggs 

 preserved in limewater. The nonfertilized eggs were somewhat superior as 



