664 



Cost of Rearing Ducklings. 



[dec., 



amounts to 2 cwts. The ten years' average is, however,, ex- 

 ceeded by i-J cwts., the excess in England being over 2 cwts., 

 but in Scotland the yield is under the average to the extent of 

 half a cwt. The yield of meadow hay is 2 cwts. less than last 

 year, but exceeds the ten years' average by nearly 1 cwt. In 

 Scotland the yield of meadow hay is three-quarters of a cwt. 

 more than last year, and is only 1 cwt. less than the yield this 

 year from clover and rotation grasses. 



Crop. 



Estimated Total 

 Produce. 



Estimated Yield 

 per Acre. 



Average of 

 the Ten 

 Years 

 1898-1907. 



1908. 



1907. 



1908. 



1907. 





Tons. 



Tons. 



Cwts. 



Cwts. 



Cwts. 



Hay from clover, &c. . . . 



3,507,468 



3,709,977 



31-42 



32-97 



29-95 



Hay from permanent 



6,214,431 



6,719,257 









grass ... 



25' 11 



27-23 



24-21 





Cwts. 



Cwts. 









Hops 



470,761 



374,129 



12' IO 



8-33 



8-84 



The yield of hops is 3J cwts. above that of last year, and 

 cwts. in excess of the mean, and although there has this year 

 been a considerable decline in the area the total production 

 exceeds last year's by nearly 100,000 cwts. 



In a general survey of this year's harvest the most noticeable 

 features are the very heavy crops of potatoes and roots. It 

 may also be noticed that the harvest generally has been more 

 successful in Scotland than in the south, every crop except hay 

 from clover and rotation grasses having there yielded better 

 than last year. 



COST OF REARING DUCKLINGS. 

 Edward Brown, 



Lecturer on Aviculture, 



and Will Brown, 



Practical Instructor in Aviculture, University College, Reading. 



During the spring months of 1904 and 1905 experiments 

 were conducted on the College Poultry 1 Farm, Theale, 

 in connection with University College, Reading, in order to 

 obtain data as to the growth of chickens and the cost of rearing, 

 the results of which were then published.* With a view to 



* See Journal of the Board of Agriculture, August, 1905. 



