POULTRY NOTES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11373, 16 May 1900, Page 3

POULTRY NOTES.

A foul liou3o will cause disease in your fowls. Feathers bis ncsfr-tho successful poultryman. Orpingtons, Plymouth 1500119, and LangBhans are all utility breeds, good table fowls and fair egg-producers. The Wyandotte is of American production i it is a useful, general purpose fowl, and tho forward pullets are good winter layers. Large numbers of eggs are used in the manufacture of dried albumen and yolk powder. American manufacturers claim that their business is injured by the importation of theso products made from cheap foreign eggs, and aro making an effort to have a duty put on imported eggs and egg products. In caring for the various classes of live slock, the qu-iition of labour is always an important item, and the class that requires llu closest, attention to petty details, as a rule, requires tho greatost amount of labour. \s poultry-keeping i 6 wholly a business of detail, the economy of labouc in performing the necessary work is of great (importance. Building: not conveniently located and arranged btccme expensive on account of unnecessary labour. Give a warm stow in tho morning. Make it tho day before of vegetable, poolings, small potatoes and kitchen scrapings of all kinds, boiled together until soft and seasoned moderately with salt and pepper. A tablespcrnful of red pepper to every four or six quarts if stew is a good stimulant to laying Pour the stew into a trough, letting it answer for morning drink also. During the day, Lowever, they should have a kotMo of fresh, clean, warmed water. Let them scratch busily for their supply of grain through tho day. The best results have corse to mo from cracked barley and wheat in about equal proportions. 'flic time which a lien spendr in incubating is not really wasted so far as laying is concerned. Any of tho incubating breeds will l.'iy just about as many eggs in a year, whether they aro allowod to hatch and firing it. a family of chickens, or whether thei aro proventod from carrying out theii iiitural instinct in this respect. If you do no desire to raise chickens and wish to br\9ak ill the sitters, shut 'horn up in a room with i cock and supply them liberally with footf am water, >ind in a fortnight they will bo layi.n; again. A gro.it many complain that tbej have great difficulty in breaking up cittcn especially of the Brahma persuasion. It is almost impossible sometimes to break up f Brahma sitter if you put her in a room bj herself. It makes'no difference how hard-the floor is; she, will squat down in the cornet and appear perfectly contented under the delusion. that she is incubating. But put a lively voting cock in the room, and ho will liazo her around aud koop her moving, so that sh;, baa no opportunity of sitting upon the floor,