POULTRY NOTES

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2920, 4 November 1916, Page 15

POULTRY NOTES

(Br Ohanteoler.) • N.Z. Poultry Association. 1110 Executivo of the Now Zealand i,°u.ltry Association met at tho Hotel Cecil, Wellington, on Monday last. Messrs. Gallichan, Knight, Muinby, Finn, SK ov I n >, Simon (Wellington), Merrett (P'J'stahurch), Reilly (Ilunedin), and ocott (Auckland) were present. Owing to an accident, tho president, Mr. Boddington (Mastorton) was unable to attend; A considerable amount of business was transacted,- and the various reports showed that tho poultry industry liad a promising futuro before it. The secretary reported that in the matter of Asiatic e f>o s . bakers had expressed their willingiicss to give preference to local production if supplies and prices were satisfactory. He stated that in Christchureh bakors had taken advantage of the offer of the Canterbury Egg Circle, and ordered (50,000 dozen eggs for preserving at Is. Id. por dozen. He reg Totted that cders from other centres could not be Allied in the same way, as there was no better means of shutting-out foreign eggs than hy producing local eggs in abundance. An impression had got abroad that AsiI ntic eggs caino in shell liko tho Amorican eiSRs. This was not so. Th© Asiatic yolks were packed in barrels holding up to 10,000, and preserved with boric acia. Their cheapness was the reason why producers should bo protected against their use. It was decided to ask the Minister' of Agriculture to enforce tho rcgulatiuiß that strictly forbade the use of these liquid yolks by bakers. It was resolved to request nil affiliated societies to forward their rjmits for neit .conference as early as possible, so that they could bo considered by'.he cxej'itivo ut their lifcxt nieeting eti December b. fin that date tho next conference orogKimmC' will he considered. Tho report fmther showed that all through the Dominion there was a general desire among products to market eggs- in aiwavcd farm, and at equitable prices. Owing to tho dear fowls of 1915 it was shown tnat'produclion-had decreased, but in the present seiwon greater activity lead ferwebowsi in hatching, which would again bring production up to normal. Arraagjineiits wwfi made for the eseenrivo to submit the remits passed at last (T.nfero;r;Q to '.lie Department of- Agriculture.'