"FOWL FEED."

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 32, 7 February 1925, Page 6

"FOWL FEED."

SCORNED BY SPARROWS. ISI.AMK TO Till'" K.VRMKI'.'S BuY. u.j •l'-:e;rn;.h. I're?s Assni .ntlon. .VANi.ANI'I. this day. This is the ape of Mibst ;t ihp*. bii' ;pvimi sparrow-' i-pruh! with sorrowful \ s.-nrn the new miMllT labelled "fowl •'...■. i." ii somewhat Pln-tir term a' the ! I.P-.1 nf time-. wliioli hit- .-uddeniy ■api.rared on tin' local niarke , . I ••What d., y.-ii think oi ihis?" said a '■uhur'oan poultry rut Imsias,. as he jiiarted his hair! into :1 eapai'ioUi I poekpt lo withdraw a Kaniplt , . 11l jlieal fashion he identified dock seed, tl ; few crushed peas, a sprinkling of maize. j oat-, something ranging between seconds I nnil wider fractions. a suspicion of !.ni!-:ied wheat, a fpw wnevils. and :l j "Fowl feed." he cried, indignantly, "why all my heii;i have pone on strike. Kveii the sparrows -.yon' touch it." I Away hark in the e.,rly .lays a missionary at Putiki -old Maori dock seed iin :nistnke for tobacco met}, and it was j |, hinted far and wide b\ natives. It is I .-aid. "Wha: ye sow. so" shall ye reap." I The harvest was. docks. Having in mind the Scriptural trutli. the poultrymaii regarded the fowl feed .-ainplr with dismay, and he is appre liflisivf as t>, what the result may be when til" new die' for our feathered friend* is scattered round the country. •It is no use importing dock seed." lie added fervently. "There is plenty of it about Wanjranui now without trying to cultivate it." The new fowl feed was shown to n man who knows .-omething about the line. It was difficult to n-sfurp him that iit was not something in the way of a jjoke. Whon he was 'told that tlie eosr I was. the same ac wheat, his oyes opened J wide in astonishment. Being a rhai ij table man ho naturally t-ook a charitable \iew of thiii<rs. and opined that some mistake had been made. He said that possibly >some Canterbury farmer had pone away to spend a month or so at the trots, and in his temporary absence the tanner's boy or hired help had inadvertently bagged up the wrong mixture for the Wangaiiui market.