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POULTRY NOTES

Making the Business Pay. In every business there are men who manifest a. Jack of capability ol doing things well. They <lo not malic progress while they stand, and marvel how the other fellow gets on. On investigation one finds that system is lacking. Attention to detail is absent. Overlapping in work and a want of economic metnoa lcim to aa expensive ■system of doing tliiiigis. In bUHinesß one ehould not be a slave to detail that can be done by juniors; at the

same time detail must not be so distant that a. crip of the concern is lost. Men Jail on every hand for want of capneity. The eamo opportuntios for trade, buying, mauufaeture, are open to all, yet one succeeds and the other fails. Why is it? It is the man. Usually numbers are attractive, and the man aims too high. He mints to strike one before he has learned to strike twelve. Jle takes on responsibilities that only experience and men of resource, know how to deal with. In poultry-keeping instances of this kind are without number. Beginners rush in and expect to Btiececd in one year v.t what takes others years to learn. They invariably aim in their mind at thousands where the practised man will be content with hundreds. A lady of the writer's acquaintance keeps 150 hens, and in addition to her household work clears £3 per week from her ezss. A poultryman states that in December ho cleared £2 10s. per week, and in January £2 17s. 6d. per week from 120 hens. Why is this clone? Simply because system, which involves thorough feeding and attention, culling and c;irn in breeding, is the key to success. N".v'b"rß do not attract, but as n> well-kept pun.lry yard a profitable income is made. Ihere are thousands of birds on New Zealand farms that do not pay for their food. If better bird,= were kept in their place, and better methods of feeding were adopted, each province would he enriched by another £10.000 per year, and the egg supply would be practically doubled. Years ago it took 30 to 40 cows to make a living. Now, 20 cows that have been tested with the Babcock will do better with-less labour, less feed, and less rial:, not because prices for' butter-fat are higher, but because the dairyman haß culled his herd and weeded out the cows that registered a low butter-fat in their milk. No one can estimate the value of culling too highly. To learn how to cull and keep the Heel; keyed up to tho highest point of production is the secret of success.

On Line Breeding. I liml that few beginners understand the purpose of line breeding and the extent to which it may be practised. Line breeding should never be used to produce a characteristic in the strain which is foreign to it. Where this in the aim. it is better to mate unrelated fowl?. But when the desired features are there, they may be intensified by line breeding. Hut here there is danger, for line breeding will intensify the bad as well as the good features. There ia no bird that is absolutely perfect physically. Iu each and every ono there is some vital organ that ■is weaker than all the rest. By lino breeding this individual its weak points aro magnified or intensified in its progeny the tamo as its strong points. Thus, if the line breeding is carried on indcfmitaly, It will result in producing worthless weaklines and the strain would finally become extinct. Tho extent to which the lino breeding may be carried depends upon the extent of the physical iinperTections possessed by the individual hen and upon the extent to which these imperfections are counteracted by the males to wnich ehe is mated. It is rare, Jiowcver, that anything can be gained by producing bird* more than seven-oighths blood of any ono ancestor, as a cockerel that is seveneighths the blood of his- dam will bo a more prepotent breeder of her good qualities than she is herself, and it takes a. great deal of experience in selecting the individuals used to inbrecd so long. Contrary to this, many beginners imagine that after studying the charts published that they can continue to mate father to his daughters and the mother to her ♦on, producing birds three-c)iiarters, seveneighths, 15-16ths, ,il42ndr., etc., the blood of one individual without introducins new blood. The result .is that not beini; able to select and mato his birds properly for .such close inbreeding, he will either give up in disgust, or condemn line breeding. Iu conclusion, I will say that 1 have not found breeding for ecg production any harder or any easier than breeding for fancy points, but for the successful breeder the former is more remunerative, as tho demand for egg-bred stock is greatly in excess of the supply, and is growing greater as the value of such stock is becoming more known.—Chan. A. Simnionda, in "The American Poultry Journal."

Notes. "Anxious," Kimboltou.—T>.e change and quantity of food -would account for the falling-off in eggs in addition to the approaching moult. Chick feed at 8 weeks to 12 weeks old is too costly. Feed broken ■wheat and mashes. Crushed oats arc also valuable, and help to build up the Iramo and assist the birds to mature. • The conference of the 2?e\v' Zealand Poultry Association opens on March 9. at Divnedin. Several. local dclcsates intend being present. The association represents thirtv societies, with an agiuxsute membership of 10,000. One of the maters to bo discussed at the conference will bo the election of delegates to the Hague Congress in September. 1921. Ono delegate -will probably represent the Government, and the other the New Zealand Poultry Association.

Mr. J. H. Merrett. editor of the "New Zealand Poultry Journal," and secretary of the New Zealand Poultry Association, leaves on a visit, to America, by the iroana. in April. He will return by the Niagara at the end of July.

The entries for the cgR-laying competition arcs remarkably good this your, each test being filled.

EGG-IjAYING The fifteenth cee-liiyiiiir competition orpuuiscti oy tlii.' jNuw Zo;uau<i Utilitj foultry Club commenced at Papanui on April 6, and will continue till .March 31, 1920. The folio',villi; are the forty-sixth ..eeli'a results:— LIGHT BREEDS. Single Birds Contest. (For purebred iiuilotß bcinceu the ageß of Oi iuid 6 moilUia.) Total Weekly to total, datu. White Lechorno— W. A. Gee and Son 6 196 Green Bros. (Mo. 1) 3 224 E. 14. lila radon 0 'All! J. B. Merrett 5 228 T. yaznckerly 5 2:6 Heck and Oaitlcy (No. 1} ... 0 "10 W. Newell 6 230 Geo. Gee 6 229 W. O. Sail 6 220 Calder Eros. (No. 2) 5 2-iB Beck and Oakley (No. 1) ... 0 110 Green Bros. (No. 2) 6 252 H, Williams (No. 1) 6 242 Miss Jessie James 6 244 Waitoitoi Stud Farm 5 214 Calder Bros. (No. 3) 5 229 11'. Jlnnter .... 7 201 Calder Ilros (No. 1) 5 233 S. L. Beer ~ 5 227 J. UsßUia •— ' G Jl. Bradford 3 193 Mrs. E. 1). HuUter 0 225 Black liOnorcao— Mrs. Roach . 4 186 H. Williams'. 4 145 Totals 107 5219 TWO YE ASS' TEST. Traeey Kins 4 491 W. A. Gee and Son 5 423 E. E. Marsden o 312 Totals ; 14 1226 HEAVY MEEDS Single Birdß Contest. (For purebred pulictg between the njjaa of 6 and 9 mouths.) Total Weekly to total, date. American Barred Itocß— Green Bros 2 232 Black Urpmitlon,T. M'Donald 7 246 Rhode Island Ked®H. Hunter 0 42 Totals 9 521 EXPERIMENTAL SINGLE PEN CONTEST. (For purebred fowls: Light breeds between Lho ace of 5i and 8 months; heavy breeds between thu aue of 6 and 9 monthi;.) Total Weekly to total, date Black Orpington— C. Bonn 4 164 White Uiiekii. Meadows and 11. Rose ... 0 150 Rhode Island Red— . C. 11. Bull 0 67 Silver H'yandoUi*11 eel; and Oakley 3 37 American Barred Ko.'kI'roeross l'onllry Farm ... 3 109 Wh'te OniinKtonE. It. Vcrcoo 6 194 While lieirhornsT. J. Richards 6 217 Calder [Iron (No. 1) 4 177 Geo. Geo 6 162 Mrs. S. Dick 5 230 8. Dick 4 221 Calder 'Bros. (mo. 2) 5 199 K Marsden 1 207 Beck and Oakley (No. 1) ... 6 209 Waitoitoi Stud Farm 7 234 Traeey Kmp -1 176 T. Fazackorly 5 IE6 ,i. Liggins 5 236 : W. A. Geo and Son 2 170 T. Wilkinson 6 225

Atkinson Bros 4 ' 119 T. E. Conway 5 Mo Green Ilros. (No. 1) 5 225 Calder Bros. (No. 3) 6 194 Green Bros. (So. 2) 5 208 Waitoitoi Stud Farm 5 224 Pro'TCFS Poultry Farm ... 5 190 J. J. Howbcrry ...... 0 121 Progress Poultry Farm ... 5 190 Webb Bros 2 176 Totals I s ' l 5U86 TjIGIIT BREEDS CONTEST. (For 6 purebred pullets between tho acuß of 51 and 8 months.) Total Weekly to total, date. Black Vinorcas— „„ „„„ K. Williams 23 1225 While Leghorns- ♦ Green Bros. (No. 2) I 1028 B. h. Beer jj 1215 -Traccy King 19 1209 Beck and Oakley ;.. 22 1202 M. F. Blackmail 24 997 B. Campbell 15 IBM J. Liggins £ 1"« N Stark and Son 2a U« 0. J Norton M IBM G H Bradford 15 1224 It Ball M 1228 ll'eretaunga Poultry Farm 31 1202 "3. S. Stevens 12 1016 G. Donnctt 26 1203 E. G. Terry 30 1423 F. L. Ozanne 22 1111 C. 11. Izard 20 1117 J T. Hilars 18 1169 »W J. Chambers 21 1106 E E Marsdcn 32 1421 C. Kcnn 24 1221 *Mra. E. D. Hunter 20 1149 A. Clegg 1? IJlf J. Nancarrow, aen ol 110 l *K. V. Hnwko 16 1180 Dnlmuir Poultry Yards 22 !M0 Calder Ilros 27 1218 Green Bros-. (No. 1) 20 1250 «W. J Eiehardß 19 1017 L. Couch 30 1295 Master A. Haley 21 1133 W. A. Gee and Son 14 943 D. V. M'Doiiß-all 17 1248 flieck and Oakley 13 822 L. T. Wright 18 1153 P. Freeman 30 1199 Mrs. Gorinski 30 1263 *Waitnitoi Stud Farm 11 1049 W Davey 28 1135 B. E. Tomkies 26 1097 Oxford Poultry Farm 15 l?i2 r.' W. Coomhcs 27 1317 Verrall Bros 23 1034 Rangiurn Egg Eaneh 26 1193 p ( qqq u 31 1318 In'der and Phillipß 17 1876 "A H. Skilton 24 1170 •T ' Robertson al 1375 A jr. Love 25 1171 1). Graham M 1299 C Thomson 20 LOT s.T. Webb Z6 l° w "T. Richards 16 1182 Brmvn LeghornsNT. Hunter 11 627 JVerrall Bros 0 5Z6 Totals 1213 64,622 LIGHT BREEDS. 'Two Tcarß' Test.) ; Total Weekly to total, date. While- Leghorns- •' H. W. Beck .....17 M 4 Mrs. Gorinski 25 2494 J. Lig.gins 22- 217= Black Jliii'ircas— H. Williams 25 2a60 . ; Total? .'...: 89 7513' ' HEA.VT BREEDS CONTEST. (For 6 purebred pullets between, tho 1 aire of 6 and 9 months.) Total 1 Weekly to total, date.. ! Bihar Wynndotteß--T. Kennedy 20 818 - A. W. Adams ■ 20 • . : SF2 ■■ | T. Dowthwaite 26 ■ 1059 ' White Hocks- ' tL. D. Adams .'. 16 • 880 ' American Barred Rocks— J D. Allinghnm 38 709 ; Black Orjiiwctoos— '...."' 0. H. Izard (No. 2) 23 1019 5 T. K. Conway 19 1168 ' W. Blomfleld 13 853 r C. J. Norton 25 999 ; 0.. H. Izard (No. 1) 17 .1026 0 J. Nanearrow, Ren 21 983 y Rhode Inlniid Itcds--1 P. E. Knyvett 5 553 s Totals 228 11,006

DUOK CONTEST. Total Weekly to total, fiato. Indian Ttunnern— K. M. Copland 9 1160 *fi. Donnett 28 1167 'T. ' Dowthvaite 15 1145 W. T. Green (No. 2) 13 1351 Mrß. C. 11. Jt'Dougall 7 931 t.T. Donald 14 1257 s irerctauiißa Poultry Farm 0 937 W. T. Green '.\o. 2) JO 1164 •"Mrs. E. J). Hunter 7 1020 Totals 103 10,102 TWO TEAKS' DUCK TEST. Indian Runners— W. T. Green 0 2398 SINGLE DUCK CONTEST. (For purebred ducks over 5 and under 9 months.) Total Weekly to total, date. Indian Thinners— K. Meadows ..'. 5 194 W. T. Green ...'.....-. 0 2.34 L. Wadliam 1 215 T. Meadows 0 162 ,7. Donald 0 164 Totals 6 969 ■ *Onc bird dead, fi'wo birds dead. IThrce birds dead.

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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 132, 28 February 1920, Page 12

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POULTRY NOTES Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 132, 28 February 1920, Page 12

POULTRY NOTES Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 132, 28 February 1920, Page 12

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