POULTRY NOTES

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 52, 11 February 1911, Page 2 (Supplement)

POULTRY NOTES

'By “Ccck-o-the North”). Utility poultry farming in New Zealand has come and ha® come to stay. Heretofore the United States of Ameri?a has been considered pre-eminently ' the home of the utility poultry industry 1 of the world and so far as the magnitude of the industry is concerned it most iindoul tedly remains so. When however it comes to modern sr-ientifie rrcans and ways of caring for the birds 1 think we can fairly claim here in New Zealand to have our American cousins on toast. The Philo system is considered in America to lie their best, and most profitable styie of poultry culture and while I admit that the . Philo system has really some good points yet it is woefully behind the I times from a labour saving stand point, ! and after all this is the point that tells. ! I do not however propose here in mv j openin'.'- address to ymr re-ad-I ers (among whom 1 hope I possess a I few good friends) to go into the merits or dements of any system but I am go ! ing to start at the first step in poultry j culture and go step by sten thron'd) 1 t’l'e whole scionc ■ (for sci nee it is). Needless to say this will take some time but if anv of your roncters ore already start’d in poultry or about to start, and .are anxious to obtn’n a little guidance. <r to have anv little p’-zzle solved .an enquirv to C'ock-o-tlie North cr.re of this office sig-’"d w'th th" name of tl-.e enquirer (not ne'-essarily for puniention) will receive prompt attention. if reply is desired by port stamped addressed envelope must lie enclosed, otherwise all enquiries answered free of char"e. ‘‘Will ntiiitv prulrry farming rny” in New Zealand: the verv oncstion makes rfe fell nervous: “Prohibition ” th« “Bible in Schools” and the “Freehold” combined cannot be held responsible for such a clatter and wicked waste of good ink as this question is icsponsible for. M-n who kn-w absolutely nothing about it (from .practical experience) rushed m.ad'y into jrint and said “Of course it will.” why if one hen can lay so many e'rgs in so inanv days, etc . ete.. there is a Luge fortune for cvervliodv; n"a : n

other scribes who knew as much .about, it as the other fellow screamed “rot;” whv so and so went into it with -C5OO C7OO or some other sum and last flm lot it s ridiculous it might pay selling sittings at 20s. ncr doz-'n of etrgs. ..r .•hicks nt Is ?«1 *?• h->’rs old but. selling eg"R for table onlv, why it is mere non'eng-*, E-ich he’d they wore rirtit and foimlit ri-'ht roynllv. and the most .amu«ing part of th" whole tbin'T was that. Loth n->rt.ies were right at le-’<t so far ns the particular instancej thev omtod v-ej-r. concerned but thev entirely f- iled tn state that -a "re--t de:d of th" profit shown r-sme from sale of st-ck for breeding I purposes, and the other partv quit" (forgot to state the mental or physical qualities or failings of the persons they i.eld up so i romino”tly as having proved that poultry will not nav. I _ My readers car. afford however to ignore luth. and reason the matter ! out for themselves with me, if they find that I exagenite in any wav I am alwr.vs open to correction. Now if .any one bad gone to any of the scribes who so strongly opposed the idea of poultry run for purely utility purposes only being profitable, and asked the onestion if be would admit that a large fleck rf birds bred from a reasonable good laying strain and properly called out. hciis-d, and cared for would yield an averag" cf 144 eg es each for a year, h" would unhesitatingly have replied. Yes: if , ho had l>een birther asked if he l would admit an average price of Is. per dozmi, net for the whole year he would also.have said ves, and then 'prolribly added but dirt would not pay any one. Well I will take inst those two things as the basis I of mv reasoning and allow an average egg yield per bird of 141 and an average p’-ie? of Is. per doz>n for those eggs, with onlv one p-ov’sc. but that a vital on" viz..- “provided th" right man is in the right place,’’ and I wish to distinctly state here that when I stnt" anything tint can be done with poultry under any. conditions it must be rarcfullv- borne in mind that I make that statement always «uhjcct to the above proviso.

A person may have the finest site in the world for a poultry plant, the finest bred birds from nn egg producing standpoint nl-o in tho world, he may feed on only foods of the very finest qual’fv and his plant nmv he nut down regardless of evrensr. but if "the right [ man is not in the right ph’co" not only I is it all useless hut worse than u.-e’ess. I for the money is utterly lost. How | many go into the bnsino<w ami before 1 cxpcnd : tig a per.nv have calculated "xaetly how much revenue they will have in 18 months after paying for j food, depreciation, freight. * repairs. | lab'>ur interest and incidental expenses and in fact in many eases have already spent the profits. When the eighteen months are up in verv many cases th" word p-ofit has to be erased and the ominous word "loss” substituted simplv became of one little fact. w’z. the right man was '-'not” in the ri’dit • place. fTo lie Continued.) ' POULTRY NOTES.

Cause always lonw before effect (except a man v.h ebng a wheelbarrow) here is an example: -Cause: Dirt, Damp, and Drau dit ; Effect: Disease, Death, Debt, and Disaster. Advice to beginners Select one breed stick to i’. study it. care for it properly and von will not fail. Many poultry experts .ask what is more ’ eautiful than a flock of one pure breed in a nice g e« n run al! one colour. one type, etc , <t”. I reply a full egg crate lieing put on board the tram. Th" fane-’er shows with pride his cups, tro hies. <tc.. and with 2o:d reason. but in n>v opitron the n est gloriously lieantirid 1 ird in the fl's-k is the ito tha 1 I'it- a fiver- in nrv po-k"t for i’Os. outl.r., .-.»<! de sit qnh-k and lively- she is !>>aufy. If von tvon’d avoid de*’oroi <1 r>!-e Ist tones an'l dl-shap"d bird- to -lire your young stock are' rot a’lo-ed to rcost. before th.-v are at has: 10 weeks old.