The Farm.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42759, 10 August 1905, Page 3

The Farm.

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which is .said to be and at the same time more H than any other,' is thus deby the “ Scientific American.” Rows as the Gottlieb-Roesepro-. Hand has been introduced in Hay- It is accomplished by, H? 10 cubic centimetres of milk H~ graduated, test-tube ; then l I Haatimetre of armonia, 10 cubic of alcohol, 25 cubic centiHof petroleum ether, boiling at Hmaturebelow 60 deg, C. AfterHhe mixture is shaken, allowed Hi for an hour, siphoned into a H fl isk, and rinsed out with ■ The solvent is distilled and Hd after dessication of the fatty

H, POULTRY HINTS. ■ trouble in young poultry is due Ho constitutional weakness or to Her feeding. It is particularly Bnt with birds of the long-leg-. Hieties, which require a conRle amount of bone in their loDg Ha order to support the weight R bodies. To obtain this bone Rce it is necessary they should Rially fed on suitable foods, and Re such things as granulated Rid bone. Poods of this kind ■ grow bone and sinew, and ■youßg poultry are provided Hem, they cannot possibly grow log and healthy. ■ave eggs in winter is the desire ■oultry-keepers, and to obtain ■several things are necessary, ■be choice of breed is important, ■diterranean breeds and Orping■d Wyandottes are the best fur ■ Again it is necessary that the mould be less than a year old ; which have laid in the summer lo moult in the autumn which I them grow thin and feeble. Rllets of the first hatching of ■alone can furnish tb« winter iof eggs. These pullets have a Burnage at the commencement winter. They begin to lay from le they become adults. Ali« lon and treatment play an imI part in winter laying. Grain Isary for the good alimentation lien, but it does not suffice alone.

|vl is not exclusively gram iniv « I When at liberty she eats ■ insects, and herbs. It very liappens that the severity of the lian winter prevents the hen pding insects, etc,, essential to llth, leaving us to furnish the Ind meal; but in the case of lapt in confinement meat in some lor greeb cut bone, must be fly supplied. Hence with the I breeds hatched at the proper |nd with lime and grit supplied, [hould be little difficulty experi In securing a fair proportion of proughout the severest season year.

He after time the question as to B>r it is possible to determine the R a fertile egg crops up, and as Rite discussion subsides with the Result, that it is not possible to Rith any degree of certainty. It 3rally found that there are more els in the early hatches than in e ones and this is as far as our edge goes; but as the matter it,s an important bearing if only Id be mas'ered, it can do no to note a few of the theories adl. A popular belief, but One that icious in practice, notwithstanding lertion? of some of its votaries, is •ound-ended eggs would be at a tun among breeders, and the price ble fowls would rise. Another, gh far less popular theory is that e| directly after being laid will ce cockerels, while if kept for 1 days pullets are most likely to be id. If there is anything in. this r, many poultry-keepers would ' stale eggs to fresh for setting, people maintain ; tbat the more >us the male the more numerous ockerels. A non-vigorous male 3 plenty of unfertile eggs, but plenty ikerels generally come in proportion ! number of egg s which hatch out. again, assert that for breeding rof pullets, the hens being very dus, uuans success in the matter, s yet tnis has not been conclusively d. Another ' the Dry is that the lolding of meat during the breeding i means that a laige proportion ef ts will be hatched from the eggs, may do easily, tested, end is about liable as are most of the theories iced, There are many other methods ; ated as haivng a bearing upon the >f egos, and experiments have been i with 5 rays and other media with dea of gaining some clue as to whesex could be foreseen or not, but ever the future may hold we are in ark as regards even n approximate mty of the sex of a fertile egg.