POULTRY NOTES.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 409, 10 March 1904, Page 5

POULTRY NOTES.

'"-■* —-—•— I - I Now is the time to start to bring yourpulletson to lay. r vs, ? Feed for eggs, and you will get them. I Keep your houses clean and make the nests inviting by frequently changing the material. y ~ I j See your birds are kept busy and lively.. w;K ; ' I {'- ;■'-.'' h\\ Six good laying birds pay better than sixty loafers, - -' "'. j I Lean meat will help the egg pro* duction, as well as assist the moulting. Don't: forget to give all the spare vegetables to the fowls; in fact, it will pay you to spare some even if you haven't very, many. The hens like green stuff as well as you do; not only like it, but need it. All the milk you can give the hens will be returned as eggs, so be as generous with it as you can afford to be. This is the moulting time, and a little extra care and attention might well be spared to help the birds over a bad time. When one's fowls have lost most of. their feathers and eggs are ! beajmings veryscarce, one w aptiMgw inclined to let things slide and lose interest in them. That is doubtless human nature! but,it is hardly fair. Not only is it not fair to the birds, but it is not at all profitable to. you. The birds require better treatment at this time than at any other. If you want to help them dyer their moult, give ! them generous helpings of fresh green* cut bone, and also mix a little linseed with their! soft food, also tincture of iron in the drinking water; or, simpler still, put a feW rusty hails in vC The treatment is to give a warm mash in the morning, cut green bone during the day, and grain at night, with warmth and comfort. If looked after in this way your hens should come out or the ordeal . jvell -. and * happy.—l "Star.? ". ■: i \_, :: %' A very frequent mistake made by poultry keepers is crowding twenty or thirty hens in a house which is only big enough to accommodate half a dozen, ind if one opened the door of the roosting house after the birds have been roosting for an hour t»r two, he would oa amazed, and could only wonder that, che fowls were not suffocated or poisoned bythe jputrid fa»|*/ a visit to your henhouse late some of these nights, and your nose? will soon tell, you .whether you have too many birds and too little ventilation. The supplying Of first-class chickens and eggs for market is one of the com? ing industries of the country. The lemand is so great for good poultry that it must and will be met* If the farmer is not interested in supplying this demand, business men will soon become so. Can the farmer allow such a grand opportunity to slip into other fhands? NV We hope riot,—."Poultry | Journal." ■ ■ Give the growing chicks plenty of room. Don t crowd them; bettor raise a few less. Crowded quarters retard the growth, in jurethe health of the chicks, and make .excellent homes for all vermin.—" American Poultry Advocate.- '" No sensible excuse can be offered for keeping scrub fowls., No circumstance or condition Can be put forward in justification of it. Thoroughbred poultry should be in the yards of the farmer as well as the up-to-date fancier. It costs no more to feed thoroughbreds than it does scrubs, and when you market them they will bring a much better price.-—"American Poultry Ajdvocate." . „'"-*/: \v?.. ( f|