A review of the work of the Experimental Farms . erature of 103 degrees was easily main-tained with the result that hatchings ranging from 75 to 85 per centof fertile eggs set were obtained. The electric brooder known as anelectrohover was found to be equally satisfactory. Systems of feeding and comparative values of different foodshave provided an almost exhaustive study. Feeding for egg pro-duction, for fattening, for early maturity, for vigor of breeding stock. 70 for flavour of eggs, have all received attention, and up to a certainpoint solved. Among the most important conclusions arrived
A review of the work of the Experimental Farms . erature of 103 degrees was easily main-tained with the result that hatchings ranging from 75 to 85 per centof fertile eggs set were obtained. The electric brooder known as anelectrohover was found to be equally satisfactory. Systems of feeding and comparative values of different foodshave provided an almost exhaustive study. Feeding for egg pro-duction, for fattening, for early maturity, for vigor of breeding stock. 70 for flavour of eggs, have all received attention, and up to a certainpoint solved. Among the most important conclusions arrived at as the resultof long and practical experience are the following:— That variety in rations is absolutely necessary to successfulwinter egg production, health of the birds, and immunity fromthe vices of egg-eating and feather-picking; That germs of eggs in springtime,—under ordinary conditionsof poultry keeping,—do not become strong until the fowls haverun outside and recovered from their long term of artificial winterlife and treatment;. Cotton front colony curtains rolled up on mild winter day. That white diarrhoea etc., is in the great majority of instancesin early spring due to the lack of constitutional vitality on the partof the breeding stock. One of the principal causes is given in thepreceeding paragraph; That germs do not—under ordinary conditions—become strongenough to hatch out a satisfactory percentage of chickens untilthe I2th or I5th of April; 72 That the most favourable time for farmers to have their chickenshatch out is usually the first week in May. Unless provided withartificial means of hatching and rearing chickens it is not convenientto do so at an earlier date; That to have the chickens make steady growth it is absolutelynecessary after the first forty-eight hours that they should be care-fully housed, regularly fed, and kept free from lice; That if well fed and cared for, up to the saleable age of threeand a half, four or five months
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