POULTRY KEEPING FOR PROFIT

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22340, 2 March 1938, Page 16

POULTRY KEEPING FOR PROFIT

FEEDING WHEAT V/ ■ .'/ " tßy “LEGHORN.”] The recent statement by the Minister for Industries and Commerce (the Hon. D. G. Sullivan) that the Wheat Committee had arranged for New Zealandgrown fowlwheat to be available for South Island poultry-keepers at a price reasonably below the price for rnilling quality wheat, will be well received by poultry-keepers. The poultry industry has from time to time requested that the Wheat Committee or the Government take control of all wheat, including fowlwheat. Wheat, providing that the quality is reasonably good, makes an ideal poultry food. Bran and pollard are by-products of the flour-milling process. The acreage harvested this year is ; stated to be 10 per cent, less than the former year. This means that there is 10 per cent, less New Zealand bran and pollard, or fowl wheat, available to the poultry industry. Feed Regularly Many farmers feed regularly at the one hour, winter and summer. Others vary the times according to the season, and where this is practised care should be taken, from now on, to watch the shortening period of daylight. Grain should be fed at a time that will enjable the hens to consume all they require, and get some exercise before going on to the roosts. It has been established that both health and production are better when the birds have a period in between their actual feeding and roosting. Birds fed at dusk often do not get their bodily needs, and records prove that cases of sickness were greater in flocks fed at the last minute. In human beings it is acknowledged medically that it is unwise to retire immediately after the evening meal has been consumed, and the interval is just as essential with poultry.

PAPANUI EGG-LAYING COMPETITION ■ The following are the results at the end of the forty-seventh week of the Papanul egg-laying competition (328 days); —

■ TEST 1—SINGLE BIRD TEST. Eggs. H. Williams (No. 2) ** 250 T. Cairns 242 G. D. Hollyman 231 Miss H. Keddell «• 230 Miss F. Kerr 225 L. P. Hawke 223 J. Llggins 222 H. Whyte (No. 2) *• 221 M. C. Mills • » 220 H. Williams (No. 1) 220 J. Ibbotson (No. 2) 219 W. E. Ward 211 T. S. Dove 210 A. Lucas (No. 1) ** 209 E. P. Anderson (No. 2) 207 . E. Tilley 206 D. J. Hawke 203 F. C. Innes *• 203 TEST 2—THREE-BIRD WHITE LEGHORN TEST. A. O. Oakley ,, , , 732 P. Knight 703 W. M. Evans 691 E. Fuchs .a 685 --E. Tilley 675 „Mrs J. A. Ritchie 670 ■F. Ashworth 653 ..G. H. Bradford (No. iV 635 'J. B. Lees ** 633 A. Edwards ,a 632 •-A. S. Cormack a. 619 A. W. Pritchard .. 614 • # A. C. Goodlet 610 T. S. Dove % a 610 G. Millar (No. 1) 609 H. Williams (No. 2) 602 Mrs B. Snelllng ** 599 _.Mrs F. D. Dillon •• 595 TEST 3—THREE-BIRD AUSTRALORP OR BLACK ORPINGTON TEST. ; ;c. O. King VA. S. Cormack m 714 . , mm 653 — 'S. Brumby , , *a 640 — v.G. D. Hollyman (No. 2) ,a 623 K. D. Martin a # a , 618 W. N. Jepson 584 G. D. Hollyman (No. il a a 568 D. J. Hawke • • 490 VEST 4—THREE-BIRD TEST. J. Variety. Any Other *.W. J. Scott a 639 *.C. Stone , , 620 f.E, R. .Buckley 598 £ A. W. Pritchard .. •• -• 502 i. TEST 5—SIX-BIRD TEAM TEST. ' / Each Bird Single. Penned. ; G. H. Bradford (No. 2) 1394 TH. Williams 1348 S. E. Davey and Sons (No. 3) 1337 i |. P. Anderson a # 1293 ffS. E. Davey and Sons (No. 1) 1277 2.G. H. Bradford (No. 3) a , 1247 };.A,. D. Russell a a 1244 Calder Bros. (No. 2) a a 1209 < T. S. Dove (No. 1) a , 1205 T'L. G. Ancall a f 1200 Mrs B. Andrews 1192 .E. Tilley D. A.’ McKie 1155 1150 : S. E. Davey and Sons (No. 2) ... 1122 ‘ ... . TEST 6—DUCK TEST. ,F. Ashworth 779 . A. G. F. Ross 724 jiG. . Wright 707 L. Williams 699 W. A. Toon 632 Mrs C. J. Collings / .. 616