The First Year Egg Production of Barred Plymouth Rocks by V. S. Asmundson, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Scientific Agriculture, Vol. IX., No. 2, 1928.

In this study of 569 records of first year production it was found that average production had increased by nearly twenty eggs or from 187 eggs in 1920–21 to 206 in 1925–26. The mean annual egg production of the 569 birds was 198 eggs which was practically identical with the average for Barred Rock pullets entered in the British Columbia contests.

B. pullorum isolated from sparrows by T. Dalling, J. H. Mason and W. S. Gordon, Langley Court, Beckenham, Kent. The Veterinary Record. April 28th. 1928.

Authors have, without success, searched the literature on B. W. D. for any record of B. pullorum in any animal except the domestic fowl. Authors isolated B. pullorum from the liver of a sparrow which was caught in a chicken run in which chickens had succumbed to B. W. D. The sparrow showed evidence or diarrhea. Also from other sparrows, having been caught in chicken runs have been isolated. These findings open up the question of a further source of infection of chicks with B. W. D.

Investigations on Fish Meals. I. The Nature of the Water-soluble Nitrogen Compounds by W. L. Davies. Agricultural Department, University College, Reading-Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry. Oct. 16. 1925. Jan. 29, '26.

The amount and nature of the water-soluble nitrogenous compounds of various fish meals vary considerably owing to the differences in treatment during manufacture. ‘Yellow’ fish meal extracts contain a larger amount of simple protein degradation products than do the extracts of ‘white’ meals.

Vineland Contest Winners Average 254 Eggs In Year, New Jersey Agriculture, New Brunswick, N.J., December 1928.

Charles W. Brown, Vineland, with an entry of 10 heavy-producing White Leghorns, won the Vineland International Egg-Laying Contest. which closed its twelfth year on October 22. His birds laid 2,544 eggs, an average of 254 eggs per bird, and more than 100 eggs ahead of the runner-up.

The Indian Runner Duck. Its Origin, History, Breeding and Management by J. A. Coutts, Vice-President of the Indian Runner Duck Club.

Published by „The Feathered World”, 9 Arundel Street, Strand, London, W. C. 2.

Contents: Black Runners, Breeding, Chocolate Runners, Colour and Markings, Diseases and Injuries, Exhibiting, Fawn and White Runners, Feeding, Hatching and Rearing, Historical, Houses, Keeping of Runners, Peculiarities and Standard, White Runners.