Poultry and Eggs.

Otago Witness, Issue 2325, 22 September 1898, Page 35

Poultry and Eggs.

TO THE EDITOB. Sib,— My attention has been drawn to the letter in your Saturday's paper regarding the table fowls sold by weight. I think it would be much more satisfactory both for producer and consumer if both fowls and eggs were sold by weight. I wonder if people generally knowthat new-laid eggs weigh more than old ones. If the weighing was introduced it would pay the farmer, and especially the middleman best, to sell the eggs when fresh, and the consumer would be less deceived. Certainly there is something very wrong in paying the same pi*ice for a small fowl as for a large one, and I am quite sure that this matter could be easily arranged, and would be to the advantage of ail parties. — I am, etc., A Potjltby Farmer. Sept. 11. Mrs Howe, wife of Mr James Rowe, a member of the Peninsula Road Board, was found dead on Tuesday in a paddock behind her residence at Burn Hill. The deceased .went out in the afternoon, and as she did n(.t return at tea time her relatives proceeded to search for her, when they found Tier lying in a paddock in what they believed to be an insensible condition. They at once sent for Dr Gordon Macdonald, who, on arriving at deceased's residence, pronounced life to be extinct. The body was then quite col'], and the doctor was of opinion that death had occurred some time previously. Death is believed to have been due to natural .causes. One sauce manufacturer in Dunedin uses fully 30owt of garlic per annum, and, finds it «flcessary. to .inxeort mask at tik