POULTRY NOTES

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10688, 7 August 1912, Page 3

POULTRY NOTES

(By "Utilitarian.")

The old proverb "ProsenKstinatbn is the thief of time" is particularly applicable to poultry keeping, especially with regard to hatching. To have pullets hiving through winter no tunc should be" lost in getting hatches -u«der way iww .particularly ko with all the heavy breeds. Amongst Legbonis a few, hero and there, will go into a moult in the. autumn-, if hatched before September, but not the majority, and the hatching of this breed can/bo carried on with satisfactory results ur> to the middle of October. However,' it will be the September birds that will give the best returns. Some local poultry keepers are setting all the eggs they can get now rather tha.n delay, red though there will bo a temporarily Ires from marketing the eggs, the ends should fully justify the means. It 'is stated that one pc-ulti-yman s duck yards were entirely, at 0111.J time, duriii''' the recent Hoods, under water the tops of the <ences braig .submerged Imagination f-'.ib to realise "the contract the owner must have had in feeding his clucks and -rathering the eggs, or were the latter washed au-av at . fast as they were laid? There must have been a regular carnival amongst the .ceding trouguo and all the moveable accessories.. _ Jt is nvedicted that a dry summer is In front of us this year. It will be well therefore, to cultivate all garden'crops for the birds as early as pebble, and ma.ke inquiries which ■u-o the mest drought resisting (sorts, and .where possible, arrange for irrigation. - This is the time of the year when the demand for fittings is .most prouounced. that ir,, from now to the end rf September, and all breeders who, h,ve orcrjrl quality birds are strongly to patronise the advertising columns of the Wairarapa Ago at the earliest opportunity. 'How can you expect the discerning public to know what you lm-c got if you don't ted them? Cater for the day-old cluck | trade as weM as settings, for there I are numbers who will freely purcha^a | the former and think twice before troubl'iicr about looking round for ; broody hens, a still, almost, negligible ' quantity. I The Utility Circle still, liko the 1 rolling snowball, grows and grows. It would seem that the time is fast ap- ( preaching when poultrykeepers who still set on their own initiative, m.:tend of co-operating, will be, not only in the minority, but even become, possibly, objects of peouliar interest to other* Co-operation, not only m pouitrvdom, but throughout commerce generally ,is moving apace, and evidently will soon mark another stage h\ the evolution of commercial ma'd. Sarah Bernhardt is reputed to be a, great lover of poultry. The Herotaimga Poultry Co., which won the double event in the last •laying competition, though net lca'..i:ng altogether, is well up so far and will. we predict, give a sharp tussle for supremacy. There are cow fAirs :u- ■ asing in the present competition, j t.ju; energetic secretary r.F the Ley'iuT Egg ' Ciivle. His I;hV'«« ducks, are gr.ing particularly stream and will give Silvcnstream, perhaps, a few uneasy dreams. The Levin Circle expect to market a thousand dozen eggs weekly this , season, a huge advance dm their first J year's operations. It must be extremely gratifying to enthusiast a: c cooperators to: know how Levin has extended itealf, and should give fresh impetus- to thoira who are inclined to { lose hope when their owa. circle is ■ | moving slowly. J