Animal Breeding Research Department. The University, Edinburgh. Seventh Annual Report of the Director for the year April 1st 1926 to March 31st 1927.

The function of the department.

To secure and democratise knowledge concerning the physiology of reproduction and of inheritance with special reference to the animals of economic importance.

Regulatory Work with Bacillary White Diarrhea by B. T. Simms, Corvallis, Oregon Agricultural College Experiment Station. Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association. Vol. 27, 1929, p. 359.

Nearly 200.000 samples were collected during the 1927–28 testing season. An average of 600 samples collected in a day by a bleeder was considered good. In the laboratory about 3000–3500 samples could be handled by one person in a day.

Fish-meal and Meatmeal. The South African Poultry Magazine, Nov. '28. Department of Agriculture. Interesting feeding experiments with poultry.

On the poultry section of the Potcheftroom School of Agriculture two exceptionally interesting and instructive experiments are being conducted. The values of meat-meal and fish-meal as foodstuffs for poultry are being determined. The meat-meal feeding experiment has been in progress since November, 1927, and the egg-production for the last five months is as follows:

20 per cent, meat-meal fed, 295 eggs laid; 12½ per cent. meat-meal fed, 235 eggs laid; 5 per cent. meat-meal fed, 197 eggs laid; 0 p. cent. meat-meal fed, 175 eggs laid. During the period November, 1927, to August, 1928, the egg production was 1,144, 1,030, 936 and 954 respectively. It is, however, only during the winter months that the suitability of a foodstuff actually becomes apparent. The figures show clearly that meat-meal is an essential constituent of the ration during this period. Of course, all the fowls received sufficient quantities of the respective rations. This experiment, and the information obtained in other places, indicate that the best balanced ration is that which ontains about 12½ per cent, meat-meal.

Poultry Industry in Belgium. L'Industrie Avicole by M. Frateur. University of Louvain, Journal de la Société Centrale d'Agriculture de Belgique 1928, p. 162.

Description of: Economic importance of the poultry industry, egg-consumption, export of eggs, poultry-industry before and after the war, conservation of eggs; the future of the industry.

Poultry Breeding and Production by Edward Brown, LL.D., F.L.S. President of the World's Poultry Congresses, 1921, 1924, 1927; Honorary Past-President of the International Association of Poultry Instructors and Investigators; First President of the National Poultry Council (Eng. & Wales). 50s. net two vols. Ernest Benn Limited, Bouverie House, Fleet Street, E.C. 4. Vol. I. Pages 1–408. Plates I–LXVIII. Vol. II. Pages 409–864. Plates LXIX–CIV.

The progress of Poultry Breeding and Production, in every part of the world, during the last half century, has been truly phenomenal. Poultry Breeding was, indeed, practiced on more or less systematic lines even before the Christian era, but as a rather negligible branch of food production. Its importance to-day is world-wide, either as husbandry in connection with agriculture, or on a specialist basis.