POULTRY NOTES

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 109, 1 February 1919, Page 12

POULTRY NOTES

(By "Chanticleer.") The Soldlor Settlement. The New South Wales Government has recently acquired additional land to settle one hundred returned soldiers in poultry farming. This will mean 170 returned men who are over there own land, mostly tivc-acre blocks, a neat, comfortablo ilve-ropined bungalow, gas and water supr'y. Thor? are acliools. churches, and han.? and an independent open-door life. To jcyljvo financial anxiety they receive £2 Ba. a .week till such time as returns from the poultry are suillcicnt to keep them. Could anything bo grander than this demonstration of interest in the returned men? Ab yet we have done nothing. Several returned men have interviewed the writer,, and at an early date a meeting will be held in Christchurch for roturned soldiers, and an address given on poultry-keeping. From this the names of those who wish to take up poultry-farm-ing will lib taken, and an effort made to get a soldier settlement going in Canterbury. It is to bo regrotted the Chief Poultry Expert is still in a bad stato of health and ennnot do much to help us. ■With the aid of the men and tho coming conference something Btiould eventuate. Notes, Mr. 0. Cussen, Assistant Poultry Expert, has gone north to give lectures to classes at Buflkura. These classes are held yearly for intending poultry-keepers, and result in miicii good. The schedule for tho next competition at rapanui iB issued. Valuable prizes are olfereu and a full entry is expocted. ■' 'ilte executive of the A'ew Zealand Poultry Association met 1 last Jlonday and transacted some important business Tho c.m.t g conference promises to be a great and arrangements are well in L*ilC. J.iie South Island Poultry Association huid its annual meeting at Duncdin on Tne meeting was postponed from November owing to the epiaomic. , usveral,Christchurch poultrymen were present, Air. J. E. Shaw has joined tho staff of tho "N.Z. Poultry Journal." and will in future conduct the egg-laying competition Columns. * IMegatcs to the conference will be cn-it-rtsunod liberally while in Christchurch. Tfce New Zealand Utility Poultry Ulub will in all probability entertain tne'confe.enco on the competition grounds at Pajianui. Mr. James jiadlington, the .wellknown Government Poultry Expert of New (south Wales, is likely to be present v at tho conference, A great improvement will bo effected at the competition by the installation of u water Bupply by means of roticulation and an electric pump. Some Egyptian jjceshum seed is, ex. pocleil in Unristchurcn shortly. Thiß plant is a boon to poultrymen, it grows as freely iii winter as lucerne does in sum'itar, and belongs to the same class of plant. ysue a number of poultrymen Boldiers will--return to Wellington shortly. When th'j-.Ust ib complete it iB up to poultrymen tj eivo tnera a rousing big -wolcomc. A iew pounds spent lu this ' direction would suow practical appreciation of vuihti luay havo'done for us. At the Soutn Island Poultry Associa.lununi moeung the question'of atKliiuoi. witn uie l\ew Zealand Poultry AaJjcluliun was discussed. It is an exoelic.'i'/ proposition, and will mean added sti-ougiri to tne . association that looks iUu-i- tiie commercial interests of tlio inda^.ry. jir. Kawiings, a weil-known poultryman, wh'j was one oi the Main Jioay, has been a-c&plfttu. V.'c congratulil-e him. jle. -.vorKvd up irom the rauks, "and Ue-su.".-t.i n:s weil-eanitd nonour. tfcra was receiveu i.i Wellington last week of vlis death at Pdimerston North on January 25 of Mr. W. iiierre. the wellknown secretary of the Falmorston ' Egg Wrote, i'or many ycazs Mr. Bierre waß an enthusiastic pouitry-keoper, and had one ot the most up-co-aate poultry farms in the Maunwatu. iie .waß an accountant by profession, and was a line organiser. He made the egg.circle in his district one of the best in the Dominion, Mr. Bierre was highly esteemed, and his doatli will mean « distinct loss to his district.