POULTRY NOTES

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 58, 7 February 1925, Page 11

POULTRY NOTES

(By "Brooder.") In his • "Lessons from Rural Denmark" Mr Frank Tate shows that, in 1921, Denmark exported over live million pounds worth of eggs to Great Britain, and in tho year following over sixteen million pounds worth of bacon. Mr Tate says "that the popular 'eggs and bacon' breakfasts of England are made possible only by Danish industry, a fact that is not creditable to our folk either in the Motherland or the Dominions" At present the sum total of our export of eggs Home is so many millions of eggs, but progressive poultry men say it in future will be measured in millions sterling as it is with Denmark. And so it should be. Many know of the efficacy of limewash for sweetening the poultry house, and its use in this respect is a wise procedure. But ] robably all will know that a couple of coats to the interior of an iron roof will assist in keeping down tho temperature within on very hot days. A writer in Poultry recommends it and suggests that glue or sour milk be added to the fresh slacked lime to make it adhesive. "He had a great sense of honour and was a man of highest integrity." Such is the tribute of the New Zealand Poultry Journal which, in a supplement to its January issue, publishes a fine portrait of the late Mr John Jarvis. There are, no doubt, many of the late veteran's admirers who will delight to have this picture to treasure it as they do the memory of him who laboured with them and did so much for the furtherance of poultry culture. All poultry-keepers should at once make themselves' conversant with the Poultry Act, 1924, tho Act designed to regulate tho keeping of poultry and exports of poultry and eggs. A heavy penalty follows non-observance of the restrictions laid clown, not the least important of which is that tuberculosis, roup, fowl cholera, chicken pox, and any other disease affecting poultry which may afterwards be declared, are now notifiable diseases and owners discovering same in their flocks shall at once inform an inspector and arrange for the destruction of the suspected birds. There are other clauses equally important and, as stated, all poultrykeepers should know of these. Until a few years ago poultry experts differed very widely as to the right amount of food to give a hen. The results of tho laying competitions all over the world have proved, however, that, if we gave a lien 3Joa. to 4Joz. of food a day we shall not be far wrong.—N.Z. Poultry Journal, which adds that, in all food operations, due regard must be given to quality.