Wire Floors for Brooder Houses by C. S. Platt, New Jersey Agriculture, Febr., 1929.

Illustrated description of a 10- by 12-foot suburban Unit Poultry House with half inch mesh floor. Two hundred and fifty chicks were placed in the house and the cockerels removed at four weeks. The pullets were kept confined to the house until 10 weeks old. The mortality was 5 per cent during the period. The chicks grew normally and appeared in good health at all times. No green food was fed.

The Need of accepted scientific standards and rigid adherence to them in Pullorum Disease Control by L. F. Rettger, Agric. Exp. Station, Storrs. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, March, 1929, p. 453.

Description of the PulIorum-Controlling system in Connecticut.

Eradication of pullorum disease from poultry flocks is a practical and feasible thing and the adoption sooner or later of a definite standardized and scientifically and reliably operated system of control based upon accepted tests will be found quite generally to be the real solution of the pullorum disease problem. Such a system should not be made compulsory, however, at least for some time to come.

A Note on the Function of the Gizzard in Fowls by E. T. Halnan, Poultry Nutrition Section, School of Agriculture, Cambridge. Report from the Poultry Nutrition Section. Harper Adams Poultry Journal.

Report of experiments with feeding glass cylinders, ½ in. long and ¼ in. in diameter to fowls. After few days the cylinders were broken. In all the cases referred to, grit was present in the gizzard and the birds were all adults. It was thought desirable to ascertain whether the gizzards of younger birds were equally efficient and whether this crushing of glass beads was possible in the absence of grit. For this purpose chicks were reared under as near grit free conditions as possible.

Passaic Egg-Laying Contest introduces novel type Layout. New Jersey Agriculture, December, 1928.

Built in the form of three long laying houses that are connected at one end by an enclosed walk, the new Passaic County Egg-Laying Contest buildings at Paterson are a departure from the usual housing facilities of such projects. They are called the only contest buildings of their kind.

The Rudimental Copulatory Organ of the Male Domestic Fowl by Professor Dr. Kiyvoshi Masui, Assistant Professor, Agricultural Department, Tokyo Imperial University, Japan. The South African Poultry Magazine, May, 1929.

The male copulatory organ of the duck has already been described by many authors, but, as far as we are aware, none of the investigators have shown the existence of the same organ in the domestic fowl.