POULTRY OBSERVATIONS 29 
the dew, and a reasonable number of eggs was secured. 
The results of some experiments to determine the possibility 
of using snow instead of cold water are given below, also the 
results when warm water was used. 
In five colony houses (three containing Single Comb White 
Leghorns and two Single Comb Rhode Island Reds) where 
the birds have been allowed free range, no water has ever been 
given except what they might be able to find in the brook, etc. 
When snow was on the ground, they were allowed to eat or 
walk in it if they desired. The houses used for these birds 
were made of 7-inch boards, with no lining or paper. There 
was no covering for them but common matched lumber, and, as 
the accompanying records will show, there is very little dif- 
ference in the temperature in and out of the houses. 
In houses 5 and 6 (see Table No. 15) where Rhode Island 
Reds, No. 5 being yearling hens that were kept the previous 
season in a warm house, but were transferred to this houes in 
September. Those in No. 6 were pullets, which were put in 
this house early in May, when very small chicks. Both pens 
were fed wheat screenings, also beef scraps, from hoppers, and 
the range was over a low marsh, which was frozen solid most 
of the time. It will be noticed from the accompanying records 
that the old birds did not furnish as many eggs, nor did they 
look as well as the younger birds. They seemed to feel the 
cold more than the others, and two died. 
The old hens were apparently affected by the snow, the egg 
production being smaller on the days when snow was on the 
ground, and also considerably less when the ground was frozen; 
that is, on the cold days when water was not accessible. 
These conditions do not seem to have affected the younger 
birds, and they show an increase in eggs immediately after 
each snow storm, gradually dropping back as the snow dis: p- 
pears. 
foUsecs2om Op and 20, (in. Vable No. 15) ‘continuedsse @ 
White Leghorn pullets. The houses were the same as Nos. 
5 and 6, but they were located in a sheep pasture, quite a dry 
piece of land when compared with the location of 5 and 6. 
