The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1909-05-27
POULTRY NOTES.
From The Maine Agricultural Experiment
Station

Station
In Bulletin 165 recently issued by the
Maine Experiment Station an account is
givenof the general progress of poultry
studies at the Station in the year 1908.
The following matters discussed in the
bulletin are of particular interest to poul-
try keepers:
An improvement in the construction OF
the colony brooder houses used exclusive
ly at the Station in rearing chickens is
described. By this change the houses
are better adapted to handling the chicks
in the hot summer months.
Directions are given for manufacture
ing compound cresol solution, very eff
fective and cheap poultry house disinfec-
tant and germicide. A reliable disinfec-
tant is a very desirable thing to have
about poultry plant. By following the
directions given in this bulletin the
farmer can make for himself a disinfec-
tant probably just as good as any and
better than many of the proprietary arti-
cles on the market at a cost much below
what he has to pay for these. Not only
in this cresol solution general distinfect
ant, but it has been found to be very eff
fective in Kidding poultry houses of lice.
Description and figures of the egg rec,
ord sheets used at the Station. Anyone
wishing to keep record of the egg pro-
duction of his birds will find these blanks
useful for the purpose.
The last two sections of the bulletin
are devoted to discussion of the season
al distribution of egg production through
the year according to the experience OF
the Station with its large flocks of Bar.
red Plymouth Rocks and to the question
as to what is the proper way in which to
measure egg production.
Copies of this bulletin l65) will be
mailed free of charge to all residents Of
Maine who make application to the Elk
pertinent Station, Orono, Maine.
EGG PRODUCTION OF THE DAUGHTERS OF
'"200-EGG" HENS.
There has just been issued by the
Maine Experiment Station Bulletin 16t
having the title Data on the Inheritance
Of Fecundity Obtained from the Records
of Egg Production of the Daughters OF
''200-egg Hens" This bulletin sets
forth the results of an experiment de
signed to test the plain question of fact
as to whether the daughters of ''200-egg'
hens were or were not better layers thar
lne daughters VI HeilS WHICH were no
such heavy producers. The results Of
the experiment were in brief as follows
The daughters of ''20O-egg" hens Were
in this experiment very much inferior te
their mothers in average egg production
This is particularly true of winter egg
production.
This experiment gives no evidence thai
there is a sensible correlation between
mother and daughter in respect to egg
production, or that egg producing ability
is sensibly inherited. A relatively high
producing mother was as likely as not t.
have relatively poor producing daughters
in this experiment.
In this experiment the daughters Of
''200-egg" hens were not such high egg
producers as pullets whose mothers egg
records fell in the 10000 egg class. The
daughters Of the ''200-egg" hens were
most inferior (proportionately) to the
unregistered pullets in repect to win
ter egg production.
Copies of this bulletin G66) will be
mailed free of charge to all residents o.
Maine who make application to the Elk
perimeot Station, Orono, Maine.