THE POULTRY INDUSTRY

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 9955, 26 April 1918, Page 2

THE POULTRY INDUSTRY

NEW ZEALAND UTILITY CLUB

FOURTEENTH EGG-LAYING COMPETITION FOR FOWLS.

RESULTS FOE SECOND WEEK.

Special to the "Times." , CHRISTCHURCH, April 25.

The second week of the New Zealand Utility Poultry Club's fourteenth egglaying competition ended on April 23rd. Following are the _ results

POINTERS. The chief constituents of _ food are albuminoids crabo-hydrates, fate and oils, and it is commonly accepted that the correct proportion for layers should be one part albuminoids to four ot the others. P Fumigation should bo a part of the regular poultry-house cleaning. Close all windows, crevices and cracks in the house, and burn in it a piece of rock sulphur by placing it with a P ie £® "live" coal in a shovel, until the fumes penetrate every crevice, . . To maintain a bird in good health, what may he called the elementary courfitnente of the food should be in such proportions and quantities as to supply all the wants of the bird's system. It there be excess or deficiency in any a ay, impaired health is the result. . There is no great secret in obtaining wintor eggs, and no ore . best, ration Many different pinna of fee-'Ung will g]V r almost equally good results, and the chief essential is to keen the birds well housed, well cared for, and well fed. lon .'an t vof winter ergs on a starvation diet or just enough food to keep the birds alive and warm.

LIGHT BREEDS. Weekly Total Total. to date. Brown Leghorns— Verrall Bros 17 30 H. Hunter 0 0 Mrs T. Moreton 15 27 White Leghorns— W. Newall 19 30 C. J. Hadley u 27 R. Cooinbes 21 41 Calder Bros. No. 2 55 N. Stark E. W. Jones 19 36 Atkinson Bros 1 32 Uauter Bros 22 47 J. Naucarrow, senr 20 43 J. Stevens 12 16 Oxford Poultry Farm 25 45 H. Bull 9 17 W. A. Gee and Sons No. 3 0 0 A. E. Phillips 21 42 Mrs M. B. Pullar 8 9 Mrs E. A. Gorinski 20 44 Trig Poultry rarm 31 65 Mi*d C. A&dnson 15 25 , J. Nancarrow, junr 8 16 W. H. West 23 31 J. Liggins 32 59 F. \V. Wilson 0 8 A. E. Wilson —. 10 14 Dalmuir Poultry Yards 10 20 H. W. Beck 20 38 R. W. Hawke 22 46 Umeo Poultry Farm 6 8 M. E. Blackman 5 9 H. Williams 27 59 Heretaunga Poultry Co. No 2 13 20 S. L. Beer 29 54 A. E. Powley 18 26 Mrs J. Mills 9 18 Mrs W. Roach 14 37 Rangiuru Egg .Ranch 1 38 Smart Bros 26 50 Tracey King 25 58 M. A. Currin 30 G4 Chas. H. Izard - 9 • 9 Green Bros. No. 1 22 48 W. Davey 9 9 .L. T. Wright .V... 23 51 W. Stephenson 27 ■ 53 C. Thomson •••••. 17 * 30 S. Dick 4 13 A. W. Adams 5 7 Jas. Robertson l 0 0 J. L. Benfeli 25 53 W. Haley 16 39 P. Alulder 24 43 D. Graham 28 58 Reliable Stud Poultry Farm No. 2 14 29 W. A. Gee and Sons No. 1 15 20 Reliable Stud Poultry Farm No. 1 29 57 Waimea Poultry Yards 20 35 Heretaunga Poultry Co. ,.No. 26 44 Green Bros. No. 2 15 19 Minorcas — 1 Miss Jessie James 2i 67 H. Williams 23 48 Totals 1078 2074 HEAVY BREEDS. Black Orpingtons— Chas. H. Izard 21 36 T. E. Conway No. 1 24 59 Norton and Dove »0 60 J. JSTancarrow, senr. 21 57, W. Bloomfield 19 32 T. E. Conway 23 48 White Plymouth Rocks—t ,W. Knight ; 5 18 Rhode Island Reds— Norton and Dove >• 14. 29 E. IS. Marsden 0 0 Silver Wyandottes— ■ • W. W. Hewinson 4 9 Thos. Wilson :.... 13 12 Thos. Dowthwait© , 0 0 T. E. Conway 0 0 A. W. Adams 0 0 Thos. Kennedy 4 11 Mrs F. Howell 0 0 Totals 177 371 DECK CONTEST Indian Runners—: Thos. Bowthwaite 3 3. L. A. Wadham 21 23 Mi-s W. A. Gee 13 33 W. T. 'Green 0 0 R. M. Copland 9 10 Heretaunga Poultry Co. ... 37 48 W. T. Green 13 22 Totals 95 139 HEAVY BREEDS SINGLE BIRDS CONTEST. Silver Wyandottes— E. J. Ross 0 0 Thos. Wilson 5 13 Rhode Islands' Reds— T. E. Conway 0 0 Norton and Dove 0 3 Barred Plymouth Rock— A. E. Wilson 3 6 Totals 8 ,21 LIGHT BREEDS SINGLE BIRDS CONTEST. White Leghorns— Green Bros. No. 1 5 13 Gi-eon Bros. No. 2 5 7 R. W. Hawke 0 4 If. Meadows - 6 13 Trhoey King 6 9 S. L. Beer - 5 12 E. E., Marsden 0 0 Thos. "Wilkinson 3 3 Mrs J. Mills No. 1 4 9 S. Dick 5 13 Atkinson Bros. No. 1 5 12 J. Stevens 0 Mrs J. Mills No. 2 5 11 7 13 Reliable Stud Poultry Farm 3~ H. W. Beck \V A. Geo and Sons 4 Atkinson Bros No. 2 5 II. Williams 72 154