SOMETHING FOR MASSEY COLLEGE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 246, 14 September 1935, Page 6

SOMETHING FOR MASSEY COLLEGE.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —A strange but apparently well authenticated siory comes to us front an ex-produce merchant of Tauranga which may he of great interest throughout the poultry world. He had regularly received from a poultry farmer on one of the small islands in tlie upper reaches of the harbour 100 U eggs per week in winter and 2•300 in summer. One winter morning he appeared in the store with tue rather strange remark that “during his absence of a fortnight in Aucaland he had stopped ins liens laying, but on his return they would stare- again.” Sure enough tiro fresh eggs came as usual after the farmer’s return. Making a surprise visit to the semi-tropic liuie paradise, the merchant found the secret and saw its confirmation. Simple enough, though somewhat disconcerting to the ardent teetotal cause, lie mixed the brail mash with home made fruit wine for production, and with water only when the price tell through over production. Ine only disadvantage was that the hens laid at full capacity, for two seasons instead of four.—l am, etc., A ROOSTER.