Poultry Notes.

King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 151, 29 April 1909, Page 4

Poultry Notes.

If the poultry run is divided into two, the birds will do better, and their general health will improve. The ran is given a chance to freshen, and a growth of grass will be induced. Anyone who has sufficient ground available should give the double run a trial. The return from the hens will more than pay the expense of subdividing. It is th* fat, lazy, and unthrifty hen that lays the soft-shelled egg. Let her go, in a measure, hungry for a while. Then place her feed where she will have to get a move on to get it, and do not have too much of it for her at a time, and she will soon get her system in better condition, and stop laying softshelled ggs., The sitting ben should be well fed. If her system is allowed to run down the beat given to the eggs from her body will be too low, and an unsatisfactory percentage of weakly chickens will be the result. Ducks and geese may be fattened very quickly on boiled turnips, potatoes, and carrots, thickened with oatmeal. They should be confined for this purpose, and fed five times a day regularly.

On the Continent the great day for agricultural shows is Sunday—church in the morning and show in the afternoon —that is the rule. Not one farmer in twenty pays the attention to bis grass crop that he ought. Sunshine is highly desirable, and the calfshed should be both dry and light. Fecundity and longevity are said to be predominating factors in the Suffolk horse as a breed, more than in other draught horses. Pastures, as a rule, are not looked ;•»: ter, and the result of this negligence •< that tbey run down until they do not Produce one-half the yields they would if they were properly handled. When the people learn not to demand .. r fat horses, and breeders learn to i r ak every stallion to harness, and work him when not in on in the stud, we shpil have a much better class of ivorae than now.