CANTERBURY NOTES.

Otago Witness, Issue 2649, 21 December 1904, Page 57

CANTERBURY NOTES.

The Christohurch P.P. and C. Club lias secured the Colosseum for its next show. At the last meeting of the club, it was decided, on the motion of Mr A. Walker, to appoint a floor steward. Bisham Farm has had a very successful season, both in sales of birds and hatching. The young stock are thriving well in their comfortable quarters, and are sure to have some worthy black Orpington representatives at the forthcoming shows. F. C. Hack has been breeding from two great pens of silvers, two pens of golden Wyandottes, and a trio of Bisham black Orpingtons. He has wound up the season with a couple of hundred chickens. Mr J. C. Wilson, of Woolston, who exhibited siicce&sfully at some of the late shows last season, has an ideal place for rearing white Wyandottes. He has 70 beautiful little snowballs. Mr Wilson is quite a young fancier, and he devotes a great deal of time to his hobby. Mr Taylor, who secured a good 1 breeding pen of Clarkson's golds, has 70 young promising chicks. Mr A. Kerr has his usual complement of goldens, besides a sprinkling of partridge.

Mr Ballantine has a high-class lot of black Minorca chicks, bred from his third prize Christchurch cockerel, and two fine types of hens. Mr Hearfield disposed of all his birds with the exception of the imported trio of white Leghorns, and had all his yards trenched and sown in grass. He has a few very choice chickens running about. Th© Clissold Poultry Farm is going in for rearing ducklings extensively. The entry of poultry for the Christchurch market was very large. At the first sale some choice table cockerels realised 7s per pair: ducklings, 5s 6d; geese, 8s 6d; turkeys, 16s.

Rumour hath it that another attempt will be mad© to get up a laying competition in Canterbury for next May.