POULTRY NOTES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10674, 2 July 1912, Page 3

POULTRY NOTES

(By Utilitarian.)

The- Palimerston North IC-.-g 'Oin-.. has just is ucd its first annual rrp:>:\ and balance sheet, .and a very e:\-.r!:: able, produetioin it is. r lho Circle h..i j ni:et with a very fail' measure of success, and its present members appear to 'bo imbued with a keen discern- | ment of the principles of the Oirolo movement. The soeretaryship, which was held the first year br Mr Mi:nr'o, has now been transferred to Mr Bier-re, an enthusiastic, pc/ultryman. He possesses an ideal spot for poultry keeping on tiro Kairanga .Bead, about a anile from Palmerston Square-. and the houses are an exceptionally neat lot cf buildings. The irregularity cf the. :gg market

is of mcuch cr'.icern to nvny. It cannot hut he vQry noticeable, how eggs have dropped 'from 2o M to Lv • !-;! in about a month, and when they read! 9d it fakes rr.orjtk' and n:r::.t!-£ t: r;s c again to Is 3d even. Tl:o Pal•mor'Ston Circle's repr)::-; strikes''a very true note when it states that it must be the aim of producers to regulate the price's, and not be dictated .-, by large, consumers and retailers. As the hatching oearro drawer, irquirios about :ik.?ler.'j '.'...■". are on the h:-cvcr..zo. Tl:;:;:? ;:]:■ ■: ;•

not acquainted with them, but r>.- -■]-::■ to understand them, r.r-o .advised to buy n few day-old chicks with bn> 'V: from some well-known 'breeder, su.h as Messrs Lcger, Irvine, 'Mcrrett, Davis, and others. The. brooders cost from five to ten shillings each, and the chickens from Is to Is 3d .each. 1 In the curre.ji'fc iVssuo of the N.Z. Poultry Journal are some especially good articles concerning the feeding ctf ducks, lilies;? ■•should be? of extra interest to many (local breeders, as net ia. ifew .have had anything but good fortune with those aquatic quackers iffliis- year. Mr Seott, the well known Auckland duok breeder, states that there Are some 'remitters that are very .hard to understand about the management of ducks, and he is ia breedeir of twelve years' .standing. Inter alia, he remarks that he is convinced that second and oven third year ducks- are more dependable than first y:>ar Ibirds, which is a decided contrast to -hens iind pullets, the latter almost anvairiiaibly being more prolific the first season. As instancing ,how chickens can be reared through the' winter months successfully, those, reared at the Utility Poultry Farm are in splendid condition.; in fact, even better, slightly, than spiring hatched chickens usually .nre. It is .understand that they will hiring in a- veiy remunerative return in another couple of months' time. On the same farm is a pen of White Leghorn heii'S, now in their second laying seiaison, which have laid meet consistently through the .autumn and winter. Ten bird a constitute the -pen, and for four months ipaist not -more than half a dozen days have passed without some eggs being gathered, the average being from three to four a day, though this- last week they have come up considerably more than that. ■Mr J. M. Ferguson, a, notable- poultryman with some, very decided notions of the great economic value of co-operation, is most desirous of ad--drnt'lng meetings m Ma-stc-rton. and Carterton. As he is forcible and o.i-■thus-last ic, an effort chould be ir.ade to gcit him he-re.