UTILITY POULTRY CLUB.

Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 17498, 5 July 1922, Page 11

UTILITY POULTRY CLUB.

MONTHLY MEETING. The monthly business meeting of the New Zealand Utility Poultry Club was held last night, Mr. H. Beck presiding over a fairly large attendance. Apology was made for the absence'of Mr J. B. Merrett. . ' Regarding the complaint made at' the previoua business meeting that Algerian oats had' been fed to competition birds, Mr R. W. Hawke said that he did not know how it was possible for anyone to have said that Algerian oats had been, fed to the birds: the management committee "had never contemplated doing so and-no suoh thing had b.on done. Only one bird! Had died and it had died' of general debility and not from oate. The use of Algerian oats as feed for the birds bad been the furthest from the • committees thoughts. Only the best short oats had been used, specially dressed—topped an tailed. ' Tne last nve bags ■ had not been dressed, but were just as they left the machine; but they were all short oats. , , ± , .' Sir H. Williams remarked that'what had given rise to the statement was that half a bag of Algerian seed oata was to be seen on tno competition The caretaker wrote that this half bag of seed oats had. Deen left over after the sowing of green feed.. Mr L. M. Isitt, M.i*., wrote thanking the club for electing him a vicepatron, and offering apme of 10s tia for the next show. it waa decided to thank Mr Isitt for his gift, and the secretary was instructed to ascertain whether the prize was intendedl for the young bird show or for the egglaving competition. - Mr E W. Jones, asapier, wrote thanking* the club for forwarding information as to his. birds' records Mr G. Witty, M.K, and the Hpn C H Izard wrote thanking the dub for e-ecting them vice-patrons. -•' Mrs F Gorinsky wrote that shejiad not received her oertincates for the positions won by her birds m the last competition. It was reported that certificate, had been postad, and it .*** to adc tte ucretary .to ascertain if all other certificates had been forwarded. mTa H. Wheeler, Shirley, wrote fonvardlnK £5 5s in payment for the Ind an Rimner duck in the competition in tto name of Mr T. Dout.:wa,te. Received; the secretary to .deal, with.the matter 'in accordance with the conditinnn in the schedule, Mr A G. Mumby wrote thanking the dub for'electing him a ™e-patroii..and enclosing £1 Is towards the oflb s funds • Received : and a vote of .thanks wal%rded Mr Mumby for his contn'bUifcMr» Menzies and i«6teregarding the disposal of two of their birds which were rejected by the judges. It was repoi-ted that the proceeds -of the sale of the birds had been forwarded to th ThTcSaker (Mr J. H Griffen) reported that the .witter during June had been severe on the birds; the frosts had been the h«*« t ,«!£2 n Shl for some years; it seemed to aSect the singbKs, especially White H« thought ««ne improvement could be mirl« to keep them warmer in the wfntr anS suggested that what is wanted is a hoarding extending out « couple of feet and the same height-ho re erred to the three-bird teams; the all right The egg jgj ha-1 kept up during the month; last week he haS sent the greatest nnxnber of eggs to market this season The duckfwere doing extremely a rare oconrrence for one of them to mi™ There had been-no. sreknoss to Ipeak of during the month; there were nTbirdH in hospital. A number. of birds Sat wefe o% in May were «mng hack The number of eggs km to mnrket during the month were: 4<Udoz he" s and 350\» ducks. The caretaker added that Mrs Griffen and he desired S thank the club for installing the electric light in their house Mr Hawke said he did not think it TTo'uld be desirable, in the midst of the competition, io introduce and hammering to, interfere with tno birde; thev were jnst about the middio of the competition, and were getting towards spring: anything that was to be done should be done prior to the next test Two-thirds of the light breeds were looking lovely, the other one-third were in different stages of moult. P*o mat-

/■'•■■• \ '' '■■•' ter what was done, it waa almost impossible to get this one-third back into quick egg production-,-White Leghorns, wa'en they took a pull, required 'a tnontn before they got back. He moved, and it was seconded: "That the Management Committee be asked to bring iia a report relative to the 'greater comfort of the birds in respect of the provision made for roosting." Mr Gee opposed any alterations being made to the houses without due consideration. There could not be raucH: wrong with the houses when a hen that had used one hod put up a world's record. He was of; opinion the com- 1 ; petition; .suffering, from at,,.pre6e.ni was tliat, some of the; bfrda jrhen ed ha4;been over-mature* .»,;:'; , Mr Hawke ; said th&t Mr (Sed -'had said exactly what most of them had in their miinds. Biis' idea :in - otfering/j the motion before the meeting'. #ai. to have" the imatter.'thbrqughiy.'digested by the committee., . Most'of ;thein wltft hatched light breeds in September and had well-reared, birds knew: that those/ ' birds, were laying, liefbre April,; and' tnat it Tail impossible tolling u j tember-hati;hed. chicken to the compe* tition ;that was.gouig to lay Witlioht a; .breafc-rrwljere tjhey -got. one j)ird.!td do so they got three that 'would not, do so; , Ihe reason why rbirtls hatched & bit early did not lay'without a breafc was that hi some cases they were held back. The birds that did best w.er'e those which got accufetbmed to the food and began'to. lay three weeks or so aftei* the comoetitioh opened. '; iii-Gee wished to make it plain thint _ he-considered the falling off in laying' was due to some of the birds having been over-.t'rained for thpi competition, Mr Hawke said that there wei*.more birds idle to-dny than there liad, beeii' during the, past six,weeks: the weather had afiected some of the birds'. If they tool: note of the bird's that' wer«r laying today they would"fridi.at thf;f end of the year that they were going to be" the l>est birds becausei the Weather experienced had .tested' .their- r*ari ; ing 'and their constitution.' tails of the different: sections '■ofithei competitions: there; were ten ftMi'lij the .champion t«am oat of j iSJthjß] three bird teams about one-third but; Of profit: *every thick,.with Exception of one, had. everv day. The Becond bird .tbat.'-jpn'S'" died, (one 'pf.' the v Hon. C. H l .. Izard's) had died recentiv from ' inflammation through broken yoljry '■' ,i The motion was agreed to. j" The statement'''of accounts for the year ended March 81st last, duly audit-, ed, was submitted; After some discrisf

consideration tUI the i»rt 'ttMlNwf . meeting. v , ' l ',-k^ , Mr Williams reported tional meeting held reference to the. «^hc«tibn^ ; to be held ou September that Mewm Brown 1^' K B&mffi&fW' <A eminent. Poultry agreed to give a date in JeBicWMH: tional Cbmmittee had dedded'thaV,t»«S subject for the debate v «»W%|sJf'A "Dropping Board yew* Board*' ■ t ••*> >J>-\-'M& ftWa&decided to alter* |^^ffl^SSi;'«'t *««• SHI