GUAM AGRICULTUKAL ?:XPEEIMENT STATION. 9 



other upward, thereby providing for the entrance of more sunshine 

 and for the elimination of drafts when the door is open. Runs of 

 an average size of 35 by 75 feet have been built around each of the 

 coops. 



An addition was also made to the equipment for the breeding and 

 laying flocks. This gives the station 13 hen runs. These w^ill be 

 utilized as follows : Six for breeding flocks of pure breds, cross breds, 

 and natives; 4 for experimental work in feeding for egg production; 

 2 for laying flocks of Brown Leghorns; and 1 for a laying flock of 

 the No. 11 cross-bred chickens, the most promising laying strain of 

 chickens containing native Guam blood. 



Trap nests which the station had on hand were installed in April, 

 and, after being slightly changed, they are now giving satisfaction. 

 The accompanying illustration shows the enlarged poultry plant 

 of the station. (PL I, fig. 2.) 



Two portable goat houses, each 6 feet wide by 8 feet long by 6| feet 

 high at the front and 5^ feet at the back, with corrugated galvanized- 

 iron roofs, were built near the end of the fiscal year. A 6-by-8-foot 

 portable hog house was also built, and material was purchased for 

 another. Four farrowing pens, with board floors made in two sec- 

 tions and with railings around the sides, were constructed in the 

 station's concrete hog house. A shed 30 by 8^ feet with a galvanized- 

 iron roof was erected in the new mare pasture to protect the mares 

 from the hot sun of the dry seasons and from the heavy rains in 

 the wet seasons. 



A new shingle roof was placed upon the station residence. (PI. I, 

 fig. 1.) Shingle roofs have not been used in Guam, and the experi- 

 ment at this station should prove of value. The shingles used were 

 of California redwood, and before being laid they w^ere given treat- 

 ments of coal tar or linseed oil, or both, and all Avere then painted 

 Avith coal tar after being laid 3| inches to the weather. The cost of • 

 the shingle roof was considerably less than if galvanized roofing had 

 been again used. 



Considerable attention was given to improving the hill on which 

 the station residence is located. The hill was cleared of weeds and 

 brush, grass was planted, and concrete steps built. Soil from one side 

 of the hill was spread about 2 feet thick on top of the cascajo (gravel) 

 and Bermuda grass was planted as a lawn before the house. Walks 

 were put in and a hedge of Barleria cristata was planted around the 

 house. Flowering shrubs were later added to the lawn. 



The water supply of the station during the dry seasons had become 

 entirely inadequate. Not only was the flow of less than 400 gallons 

 of water per day in the old, open, unwalled well insufficient foi- the 



