The Canadian Record of Performance for Poultry. Report for Record Year 1926–1927. Ottawa, Canada.

The eighth year of Record of Performance work has proven to be the most successful to date. A substantial increase occurred in the number of breeders entering flocks and in the number of birds tested. The demand for certified R.O.P. stock and its progeny increased both at home and abroad.

A new international Menace? Pseudo-Fowl-Plague.

From a letter sent by a member in India to the Editor:

„We are very much troubled in India with a new disease. We call it the „Raniklet” disease, as it was first noted there in August 1927. Birds were sent to our Imperial Veterinary Research Institute for investigation. They could find nothing but succeeded in transmitting the disease from the mouth exudate to pigeons or other fowls. It proved to be a filterable virus and symptoms include gaping, catarrh, foul crop. Death follows in 3 days. It is intensely infectious and has devastated native fowls as well as European birds.

A Balanced and An Unbalanced Ration Fed Prior to the Hatching Season As Affecting the Hatchability of Eggs and the Vigor of the Progency by Horace Atwood. Agricultural Experiment Station. College of Agriculture, West Virginia University. Bulletin 207, July, 1927.

Conclusion: This experiment affords no evidence tending to show that a reasonably heavy egg production immediately prior to the hatching season has a detrimental influence on the fertility or hatchability of the eggs or on the vigor of the progeny.

Research in the embryonic evolution of the pancreatic islands in the fowl. Recherches sur l'evolution embryonnaire des ilots pancréatiques endocrines chez le poulet. Par R. Potvin et Max Aron. Comptes Rendus des Séances de la Société de Biologie, Paris, 4 Fevrier 1927, p. 267.

The differentiation between the endocrine islands of the pancreas exist from the 8th to the 9th day.