. Canadian journal of agricultural science. Agricultural Institute of Canada; Agriculture. 154 SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE. January. 1922. The Character of Foundation Stock. Some 900 females of the different breeds are kept on the University Farm at Point Grey. Each one of these birds is trap- nested, and full records are kept of egg numbers, size of egg, quality of egg, brood- iness, moulting, etc. Trapnesting is fol- lowed by pedigree breeding, pedigree hatching and rearing. Very rigorous selec- tion is carried on at all times for vigor, type and other desirable breed character- istics. The found
. Canadian journal of agricultural science. Agricultural Institute of Canada; Agriculture. 154 SCIENTIFIC AGRICULTURE. January. 1922. The Character of Foundation Stock. Some 900 females of the different breeds are kept on the University Farm at Point Grey. Each one of these birds is trap- nested, and full records are kept of egg numbers, size of egg, quality of egg, brood- iness, moulting, etc. Trapnesting is fol- lowed by pedigree breeding, pedigree hatching and rearing. Very rigorous selec- tion is carried on at all times for vigor, type and other desirable breed character- istics. The foundation stock in S. C. White Leghorns consisted of a pen of 10 hens as bred by Professor Dryden at the Oregon Agrieuitural College, Corvallis. Such fa-. VVhite Leghorn Hen B. 501 that had laid 317 eggs when photo was taken on November 10. She is two thirds moulted and does not stop lay- ing. A typical long distance producer. mous long distance layers as A27 that laid 240, 222, 202, 155, 168, 139, and 61 eggs in as many successive years,H38N that laid 139, 197, 200, 181, 179, 120 and 80 eggs; E248, one of the first official 300-egg hens; E21, that laid 259, 249, 172 and 215 eggs, all appear quite frequently in the ex- tended pedigrees. The progeny of these hens ^as been distributed very \^ndely to improve laying flocks in the stares to the south of us. Professor Lunn, who found- ed the department, also secured from 0. A. C. two cockerels, Nos. 2671 and 2735, of similar breeding, to furnish good breed- ing lines. This 0. A. C. stock was supplemented by stock from some of the best known B. C. breeders. These birds came from flocks that were noted for hig^i average oroduc- tion and have shown splendid vitality and good production under University tests. Two years' Tests with Leghorns. In two years' tests, as conducted up to the present, the breeding work has con- sisted largely of testing out a large num- ber of pen matings for the purpose of eliminating as quickly as possible the po
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