POULTRY EXPERIMENTS. 



G. M. GowEi.iv. 



[The poultry work of the Experiment Station was undertaken 

 primarily to study breeding for egg production and has been in 

 progress for several years. A year ago the Bureau of Animal 

 Industry of the U. S. Department of Agriculture desired to 

 cooperate in the work and is now contributing $i,ooo per year 

 to assist in the carrying forward of the breeding experiments. 

 Considerable unpublished data from these experiments have 

 accumulated, but it has been decided to hold this matter for 

 another year before it is published, at which time it will probably 

 be issued as a bulletin of the Bureau of Animal Industry. 



The following papers on poultry experiments have been pub- 

 lished. With the exception of Bulletin loo, these are no longer 

 available for distribution. 



Number of Laying Hens that can be profitably kept in 



one Pen, Annual Report for 1898. 

 Feeding Chickens for Growth, Bulletin 64. 

 Breeding for Egg Production, Bulletin 64. 

 Feeding Chickens for Growth, Bulletin 79. 

 Experiments in Incubation, Bulletin 79. 

 Breeding for Egg Production, Bulletin 79. 

 Breeding for Egg Production, Bulletin 93. 

 Floor Space, etc., in relation to Egg Production, Bul- 

 letin 93. 

 Poultry Management as practiced at the ]\Iaine Station, 

 Bulletin 100. 

 This bulletin (117) presents some of the results of the breed- 

 ing work and supplements Bvilletin 100 by outlining the methods 

 of housing and handling our stock that have been adopted since 

 that bulletin was issued. — C. D. W.] 



