POULTRY NOTES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 68, 14 December 1918, Page 12

POULTRY NOTES

(By "Chanticlior."

Prospoots Are Brighter. With tho closing of tho war we ' may look for a bright future for tho poultry industry. It is one of the few Industries that has suffered by tho conditions of war. Our country lost 100,000 of itfl consumers by our men going to , the front. The oyereca. passenger traffic fell to a negligible quantity, the touriet and hotel bu6ines.s fell aivay. Cheap pulp from Australia aud China has ojfected our, markets Now peace has been declared wo may look for a restoration of good times. Evory poultryman . ehould cull nnd koep nothing but tho best birds, and us many of them as he can wisely look alter. Let Uβ so forward with a fuller determination to establish our business ( ir.orc solidly than ever. The feed question will' no doubt trouble üb, nnd it is not cloar what next season will reveal.' With the millions of bushols of wheat that Australia has to spare some organised effort eliould bo made ( to secure some of the vast supply. Tho Hawkcsbury Tests. The conditions governing the next laying competition at Hawkesbury College, . ahortly to be issued, include provision for the acceptance ot ton entries of '■standard" birds; that is. birds Belonging to breedere who have 'won a first.- second, or third prize in open classes at nn approved exhibition during the 1 past three years. The birds .entered will have to be of standard quality. A "iineral increase in priice has been decided upon, and seoarate quality prizes allotted for the open competition and the standard section, thoec for the former being £5 and £2 10s. ■ The prizea for standard birds -will not be awarded to a group laying less than a thousand flgs?., Tho eccond-yenr section will bo The entrance fee is to be raised ,to 25b., in order to cover freight for v the return of birds. The committco is reserving the right to inapect the utock of any applicant for a pen with a view to eVctermiiuiig whether the quality nud character of the birds warrant the allotment of pent. Natss. ' ' Few povfltryiuen have such a record ae Mr. P. llcjger. so well known, among New Zealand poultrymim. He had his four sons at tho war. one of'whom was killed in Palestine; Hie daughter went to England ae a nnree. She was recently presented to the King and Queen, ii'ii'd received on September 14 tho decoration of tho Order of JfcriV for distinctive aefvice. . Privat/b George Fitiputrick. a well-known poultryinan in the south, has been -wound, ed five.' timea during the war. The lnet wound incapacitated him for'service. The /Christmas denmnd for eggs has set in\ and prjccß have advanced. There nus boDii/a, good .demand for egfts during |ihc epidomic, though prices are not so .high as'.lfcst season. . 'Thro report issued by tho Board of Trade affirms that poultry producers would give the/bakers no guarantee of a, yearly supplyiof eggs, consequently the Hoard would not recommend that the importation or eggfl should cease. It is to be regretted that in a country like Ne\y Zealand we sUould find it neceasnry to import eggs.