POULTRY NOTES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 14 January 1913, Page 7

POULTRY NOTES.

(By "Utilitarian.") All teceptacles in which eggs have been placed, this season, for preserving should be inspected, (jrom time to time, especially in the hot weather as tho liquid is sure to evaporate more or less. Care should be taken i that the eggs are kept right under the liquid and it any are found above through insufficient preservative, add, as required, cold plain water. There is no need to use any more of the salova or water glass, as the case may be, provided that it was mixed in the right proportions at the commencement. As the committee of the UtilityEgg Circle wish to ascertain what egg crates are available, mefhbers tire requested to return to the Chairman, Mr O'Leary, or to the collector, any empty trays or crates they may have on hand, not in actual use now. | A tremendous agitation is going on 'through the poultry press urging people to turn their attention more to table, poultry. There is without doubt % a good demand for top quality, but what is also as much wanted is a better system of marketing birds than at ( present prevails. The producer when sending his birds to a distant market has not much idea what the result will be till the returns are to hand. He has no one to look after his interests, samo as is being done with the eggs, and consequently prices are all anyhow, sometimes right, sometimes otherwise. . The grain grower is' better off, in this respect, for even if he has several thousands of bushels he knows, within a penny or so. as a rule, what he will receive. He can *ell 011 the farm or in the district, but the poultryman with a crowd of birds to seek the-buyer, where he may, or perhaps send them to some distant auctioneer, where the middleman stens in and buys to sell again. This | makes them dearer to the consumer I and a loss to the producer.

Is the much, talked of degeneracv of the human race in any- way attributable to the loss of the feather bed 1 ? Feathers do not appear to in much demand in the Dominion, kapoc hn,s stepped in to the poultrykeeper's loss. Perhaps housekeepers also have come to the conclusion that life is to!> short to shake up feathered beds every day. and prefer .something quicker. The organiser of the Poultry Association, JVlr T. Rutherford, hns lntel- - received en curries from the Yi aikato area relative to forming an TCsrg Circle up there. A synopsis of the business has forwarded which may eventuate in calling a meeting of poultrykeepers in the district. It is said every living organism has its enemy. We would like to tind the enemy which destroys the red' mite, bv choice.