Poultry Keeping.
THE SECRET OF SUCCESS. f Ona of the most successful poultry MHiera in the. colony informed a Representative of the Farmers’ Advocate the other day that he considered the chief essential to success in the business was maintaining cleanliness throughout all operations in the poultry yards. He sprays his house once a week with a solution of carbolic acid and kerosene —about half a pound of carbolic acid, a quart of kerosene and two gallons of water. Special attention has been paid to eggs, and he has made this branch of the Business pay w T ell. He gives boiled wheat in the morning, about one ounce to each fowl; a mash in the middle of the day (carrots, mangolds, potatoes, bran or pollard, and livers), as much as they will eat; in the evening dry grain, about one ounce of either oats, wheat, barley, / maize, beans or peas. Drugs and condiments are never used —a change of grain and a variation in the mash being all that is required to keep the fowls in perfect health. White Leghorns are the birds favoured, a small flock of these popular fowls having given an average of 187 eggs in 224 days. -
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Manawatu Herald, 1 August 1903, Page 3
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202Poultry Keeping. Manawatu Herald, 1 August 1903, Page 3
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