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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4431, 3 July 1909, Page 4

As a rule, a woman makes a success of poultry culture because she is careful, watchful, and mindful of all the small details.—the little leaks that often sink the ship, Egg production can be bred up as surely as can fancy points be bred into your flock, and the two are not in the least antagonistic if due care is given to each in making up the pens. For pullets, mate a j'oung cock with old hen?. If both the male aod female members of the flock are young a majority of the chicks will be cockerels. Any good incubator will hatch egg?> .if rightly'attended, but raising the cucks after they are hatched is .the r ck that shipwrecks nine out of ten incipient poultrymen. Disease among poultry usually comes from overcrowding or confinement in unhealthy quarters, This, v however, is not excusoable on a farm. There is plenty of room, and sanitation should be perfect. If there is any tendency to leaf-curl in peaches; black-spot on apples or pears, or any other fungoid disease at this season of the year there is little danger in using a solution of hluestone alone; but it will burn up the slightest sign of a bud or leaf, and should for safety’s sake be mixed with lime,, and this makes a Bordeaux mixture. Any of the Government publications will give the prescriptions for the above. For slugs and wire-worms, grubs, and so on, there is nothing lhat we ha e tried so good as “ Vaporite,” a preparation of Messrs Strawson’s; it is fairly cheap, and when the garden has been dug over in winter, should be sown on the top and forked in, and it will kill most of those peats unless thpy are too deep.