POULTRY NOTES

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 99, 19 January 1918, Page 13

POULTRY NOTES

ict Roady for Big Business. Jl'r T E. Quisenberry, Kansas, writes be following Now Year message:Jly advice ia to. set ready, ior a big loultry business in the spriug of 1916. Vitli com, com meal, and. other 'oultry "feed on the. decline, • and rith eggs and poultry prices advancing to , reasoiiablo figuro compared to thp cost if -production, X feel certain that tlie ime is at hand when poultry and eggs ire coins to be m demand for hatching, breeding, and market. purposes, and at irofltabla prices. i.f 1 ?° ™ P e that our years has it seemed to me that loultrymon would go into the season with i, greater assurance of success and a ■casonable profit than just now. The Government is sending out a large orce of men to help educate the public md to encourage production. They mlist upon every backyard and everyjeno•al farm being ÜBed to the limit for thp lurpose. The U.S. Department of AgrlSre ay. that.- no kind of live stock :an be pi'oduced so rapidly or economic S as poultry and eggs. The Food Adninistrators sny that poultry feeds will ie from 25 per cent, to 40 per cent, lower han they were last fall. These ficts ihould interest and. fcn « ou . ri !f e ntereßted in any branch of the industryBegin now to gel ready for a good season's business. Don t wait -until the latching l season ia on, bn u got out'J® ild inoubator and clean it up. See that the parts are all there, that the tanV toes not, leak, and that, the burper and n'ervthinir is clean and in first-class con* lition. If you are going to need a new noubator you may not be able to get one if von wait until the last minute. There is going to be a big demand, so place your order now. Take a. final look at the breeding stock. 3ee that they are all in good health ana lay eggs with firm shells. Oull out those which lay small-sized ind off-coloured eggs. Every poultryman should nave his breeders all selected and mated by Jamt. dry first. Don't breed from the whole Hock if you have a largr number from which 'to selecti, but piflk out your ohoioeßt fomales and mate with you choicest males. That is the only way to make Teal progress. . Plenty of water is ]unt as importatiu in producing winter eggs aB is the right kind of feed. ' . If your are going to need a male tohead your pen or will need eggs for hatching yon had better place your orders now. Tlie demand is going to f;.r exceed the supply. Th» earlier you place your OTder. the better selection you will get. Government Assistance. No one will deny that tho Government has given valuable assistance during the paßt year to the poultry industry. There aro some who think that a more aggressive polioy -should have been adopted by establishing State farms, and egg-lying competitions. Tho timo iB not opportune for those undertakings, to be effected. Materials are so expensive that it would' be muoh better to postpone the orection or a valuable plant until things return to normal. The Government is doing good work at tho present timo, by getting the instructors at work among the farmerß and poultry®™. Old and useless stock are being eliminated and sold. Better prices are being established. Improved housing and feeding are being adopted so that though the number of birds may bo inoreased, their quality is better jmd will show an equal if .not better return. The fanner has practically all that is needed for increased production of poultry. There ia ample scope for other poultry instructors if only the right, men can be found. The Government are wanting an instructor, at the present time, while there are several poultry plants wanting managers, and yet suitable men cannot be obtained. On the food question the Government might have done. more to assist poultrymen, but the shipping difficulties have been so great .that very little can be effected along this line.