POULTRY NOTES

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42749, 18 July 1905, Page 3

POULTRY NOTES

Don’t leave eggs too long in the nest., Have clean nests and save washing. But don’t market thera dirty by any means.

Have a dummy egg in every nest. In almost every locality there are people who will pay a little (or a lot) above regular market price for a select article. These are the people you need to cultivate and who will prove your most profitable customers if treated properly. Popular breeds of fowls arc the most profitable to keep. The breeds of to-day are Wyandottes —especially whites —Orpingtons both buff and black, and Plymouth Rocks. But the chief favourite all this Autumn will undoubtedly be the Whit? Wyandotte, which look like displacing the Bluff Orpington from the favouritism it has so long enjoyed Regarding commercial poultry keeping and the production of eggs for table, the site for the poultry farm must be chosen with great care. Poultry need space ; they need dry, sunny slopes and light soil to do their best, though they can be acclimatised to cold, heavy land, The useful life of a hen is only two, years. Start with pullets and keep them till just before their second moult.