POULTRY NOTES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 110, 26 January 1918, Page 13

POULTRY NOTES

SKLaCTION i'OR 1918 Much year- adds io our knowledee of poujtrif-breediug. ievcir baa knowledgo utcAi eucii an asset J» the present. liJliuichey ib emoretii uiiuu U3 by wur couai/.joiis, aiul ■the.-iniiri who does not reS'iunU iiiuoi EO nuclei , , our methoiis of lr-oui'Mk iiavo to be rcconati-ucted. It is not suliiueut for us -to know how we iiave hobo IJiingH in the past, but we must (ileum to do ..tneni hotter uow. UulUnir, iufUius, haifhiug ami rearing of chicks, miuliia, tKfitine, etc.—ull have to pass unan cioee sui-utiuy. Wo must ddetu the. wtitk iiKiShods and substitute the strong. We must rise l'rom -the inditierent and liursuc the usgrussivo, Only such a view o£ things to-aay entitles ua to Do classed a 5 successful. The poultry industry may do passing through, u su-enuoua pc-riou, but what industry is better proiectedf ioods ai'O aeui- certainly, Out prices are better. Heveral producers Jiitve stated thm under the priucn now obtained tor efek'S iliey aru icaKiiiß a Oettci' success of poultry ratsing tna« ever tuny did. They jiavo cut down labour, cullea closely, led luaiciously, and bred me ncus to lay. iJunuß the uuiuing year we must act a oiose watcn ior uio uens that can lap. Only thetso arc woryi breeding iroui. From all t)i« cunipuiiioim It is ciuarly demonstrated that tnu uedt iaycra are the best ureeuei'B. with otnei'B, laboured uuaor'tiie impression that JNaluru would entor'cc a poflalty on tlio lorced hen, but such has not proved to be the case. Wβ looked upon tile 21IU, 2iO, and 300 egg heu as being abnormal; dul what is really the viositiou? These hens have great laying capacity, l'hey demonstratu iney can lay in oue. year what takes two and tbreo years .wlthi hens of iv less valued Btraln. All breeders 'of stock ftelect their broedera Irom tile.-stock that show Bupcriarity and cici'l in : , quality their lellows in tho race. ■ ilendel, iu his experiments, has shown as lliat certain colours a;ii characteristics 'ju flowers' tend •to reiiroauco these (fuuli■tii!Bi'how much more ib; the same- ■priuciplo followed in the breeding of stock, in 1918 we must get to know our layers. ■It must be done by single pen, trap;.neat ior observation. ' I'ho kuowledgo must bo seoured. The producer who can confident,ly say he knows his.stock from which he breeds stands out eminently ahead of his ifellows.