POULTRY NOTES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 12 November 1913, Page 6

POULTRY NOTES.

(By Utilitarian.) The Utility Egg Circle is despatching its first' consignment of eggs to tli'T New Zealand Poultry Industries Co. next week. The first statutory meeting of this company's sharehold , p. mil lie held on \Vednesdxv even ing, inst., at lQ)e registered ofliiv. Blair Street, Wellington. As c<m^uleralile business ha/s to be done, ii is to lie hoped its supporters will roll nj) force. The strike, having checked the usual supplies of eggs to the Wellington .market troni the South Island; 11 us raised the prices of late to ti phenomenal height. This will stop further preserving, unless a big drop ocenrs. which in turn must result in high prices for both fresh and preserved eggs jiext winter. This season is witnessing an un;i;.ii:illy great de:riand for pullets of all ages' from a month upwards.

It would jie interesting to know what a Wellington contemporary, a iVw weeks ago, meant by stating that lawn trimmings were most unsuitable for chickens. If the long edge> overhanging/tli© sides of lawns were in the 'Writer's mind, then, perhaps. ho was on t'ho safe side. Or if he :iieant Die trimmings, cut by an oidinarv lawn-mower from a modern laid-down lawn, again there'is little to ({nibble over. For lawns, as laid down now, contain, generally, a specially prepared mixture of grasses and little or no clover. Out the common or garden laivri, principally constituted r>f rye and clivers, is, I contend, hard to beat for either chickens or adult stock. It : should, however, he given freshly cut; otherwise it will isoon dry up or heat, according t<i the .manner in which it is kept. ... When it is desired to store fowl manure, it should bo kept under cover and quite free from the weather. Every day, or every second day, at the most, it should be stirred with a fork; to prevent too frequent decomposition. This will render it into a pulverised state for manurial purposes. ' MS,,/ ; , N(> hard-and-fast rules qan be laid down for chicken raising. Each batch requires its own particular attention, for there is a difference in the manner in which cine lot will progress, or otherwise, from another! It must be remembered by beginners that- a brooder which >vill accommodate, say, twenty-five chicks at a day old, will not necessarily be sufficient far them' at" three weeks. Not only do they require more room, but increased ventilation. The hovers, as the chicks grow, should be gradually raised so that their hacks can comfortably reach the flannel above them.