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FOWLS.
There ia a wide difference of opinion among poultry fanciers and farmers as to what breed of fowls are most desirable. Of course, the decision of this question depends on the purpose for which they are kept, as best layers do not alwajs furnish the best meat. On this point (says the ' TJtica Herald ') a committee appointed by the Farmers' Club qf Nevr York to visit the Poultry Show and re : port what breed of poultry to keep, made a report to the club, of which the following is the substance :— What breeds are at present most prized ? — Different breeders disagree,; but it is at present thought that the majority prefer Houdans, dark and light Brahmas, and Leghorns. Are pure breeds preferable ? — The pure breeds are better than half breeds as layers, but not quite so hardy. "What fowls are best layer 3 ?— White Leghorns and Aylesbury ducks. Which grow fattest, and make most dressed meat? — Crevecceurs, light and dark "Brahmas, or Aylesbury ducks. For eggs and flesh both, which are the best ? — Houdans. For flavor and tenderness of flesh, which breeds excel ? — Houdans, Dorking or G-ame, and Rouen ducks. For mothers, which have you fouud best ? — Game and Dorking. Is the Dorking hardy in this climate ? —No. What feeding and range do you recommend? — Ground feed in the morning, mixed with warm water, whole grain at night, a little meat occasionally in the winter, with some broken oyster shells, all the range possible, and a good warm house, are all that arc necessary. What is your opinion of poultry raising on a large scale ? — lt can be done with great profit if the grounds and houses are large enough. Every hundred fowls should have at least an acre.
The following notice appears in the Victorian Government ' Gazette ' of Friday, April 12 : — " Seeds of the plants, yielding the Sunn fibre, the Jut© fibre, and the Gingelly oil can be obtained, for test culture, in the warmer parts of the colony of Victoria, on application to the undersigned. — Fred. Von Mueller, director of the Botanic-gardens. Bo-tanic-gardens, Melbourne, Mai'ch 17." The ' Manning Biver News' states that a singular disease is destroying the cattle about Red Bank. We understand the symptoms are alike in all cases, but that no one has been able to recognise the disease. After death the stomach is found to be full of worms about an inch long, and unusually broad. These creep into the throats of the cattle in large numbers and seem to suffocate them." It was but lately that worms in sheep were a great source of trouble in N. S. Wales. The Chicago 'Tribune' says -.—The extent to which the labor-saving implements have been introduced in agriculture we saw illustrated a day or two ago in Wisconsin. A farmer was seated on a reaper with gloves on his hands, and with an umbrella over him, and with as much . comfort as driving a buggy, he was cutting oats, the reaper throwing them into regular and convenient sheaves for binding and stacking. "We remember the time when, twenty years ago, we cut oats without an umbrella or gloves, and let the grain lie where it fell from the scythe. Yet here was a man with a pair of horses lin comparative comfort doing more in one day than twenty-five men could have done by hand twenty years ago. An Auckland paper says : — " From Mauritius comes the news that Adelaide butter was sold there at about 37 dollars per 100 lbs., or at about Is Cd per lb. This is an excellent price, leaving an ample margin of profit for the producer. From this fact, and from news previously published as to the prices realised for preserved butter in India, we cannot but think that the attention of our farmers should be turned to the establishment of co-operative dairying, by means of which their butter might be shipped to good markets, such as these without the intervention of the middlemen." The following extract from a private letter, under date sth February, received by a gentleman in Timaru from Messrs Crombie and Co., proprietors of a large woollen manufactory near Aberdeen, shows that the demand for wool in Great Britain is not met by the supply. The writer .says : — " We are tremendously busy this season, never received such a demand [for goods] nor greater difficulty in getting wool. The colonial sales commence on Thursday, the Bth, and there is every chance of a further rise of l|d to 2d. This, compared with the lowest point last year, represents a rise of eighty per cent. We bought some home Cheviot wool about a month ago, and paid Is 6^d per lb ; the same clip last year cost us lOd." The extraordinary price wool has been fetching at the late wool sales has put even London brokers completely out of their reckoning. Mr N. P. Bayley's (Mudgee) last sale is reported as follows : — Ex Ann Duthie— 3 bales at 51d, 2at 47£ d-, 2 at 4G£d, 1 at 47R 2 at 47£ d, 1 at 45d, 2 (broken wool) at 29d, 4 at 27d> 3 (locks) at 24d, 2at 23d. The broker's report received by the previous mail values this wool in no case over 3s 4d^ and concludes by complaining that " it is very poorly washed and full of grass seed." In the face of this it fetches nearly Is per lb. ovor the broker's valuation I The fact is remarkable ; and it would almost seem as if buying wool was becoming as „ Speculative cis buying golck mining shares*
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Bruce Herald, Volume VI, Issue 418, 15 May 1872, Page 8
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