Calendar for Poultry Breeders, 1937. Kalender für Geflügelzüchter 1937. Editor: Fritz Pfenningstorff, Berlin, W.35.

This is the 39th edition of this calendar. During recent years great changes have occurred in Germany, also in the field of poultry breeding, and various problems have been studied with great care at different institutes, and this calendar gives important information of the results of the research work carried out.

Pullorum disease in captive quail. M. W. Emmel. Jour. Amer. Vet. Med. Assoc., Vol. 89, 1936, p. 716.

An investigation was made by the Florida Experiment Station of losses which occurred throughout the 1936 growing season in young quail on a farm maintaining about 300 pairs of breeding birds. Cultures made from the organs of 2 of 5 affected quail chicks examined yielded a microorganism having the characteristics of Salmonella pullorum. The infection appeared to have been introduced to the premises of the farm by birds raised in captivity that had been received in March, the infection having been spread to a considerable extent by means of the incubators. It is pointed out that while it is unlikely that pullorum disease is of particular importance in wild quail at this time, the release of pullorum-infected birds from quail farms is a potential menace to the future welfare of this game bird, particularly at this time, when the restocking of the wild supply is a conservation program of many States.

Eleventh central Egg-laying Test 1936– 37 and Third S. A. P. A. Breeder's Register Egg-laying Test. P. E. F. Jooste. Glen, Orange Free State, South Africa. 7th April 1936 to 8th March 1937.

Light Breed Section 73 pens, heavy Breed Section 38 pens. The best hen in the light breed Section produced 285 eggs, in the heavy breed Section 269 eggs. The total production of only the four best hens in each pen is given.