Hints on Winter Egg Production

Otago Witness, Issue 3614, 19 June 1923, Page 42

Hints on Winter Egg Production

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We have arrived at the season when egg prices are soaring and poultry-keeping becomes increasingly profitable if one can prevail upon the birds to respond with 1 he deliveries. And tbut is our point to-day because if eggs were as plentiful in winter as in spring and summer the old law of supply and demand would operate and maintain the poultrykeepers produce at

even rates. It is, in4£ed, the case that durinsr the colder season when eeg supplies fall off. the public demand for the fresh-laid breakfast egR improves, hence the usually rapid advance ia egu prices which commonly operates at this season.

The Determining Factor Winter ergs depend upon management. and whilst the little things in this direction count enormously. it is after all diet that is the prime factor in determining results. Your Stock may be of a strain of the highest fecundity, your housing may be perfect, and the general environment all that it should be. but it is that which goes in at the mouth—-the raw material for the egg —by which health, vigour, and stamina are maintained, and without which egg- production is utterly impossible. The Karswood Cfompany have made a long jHLtdent study of this question of egg-pro-duction. and the heads of each d e part'd© nt concerned in the purchase of the raw ssterial, the manufacture, and the sale df the several Karswood products are each ftactical poultry men. and have a firsthand knowledge of the subject. The Karswood Staff includes men whoso names arc household words whereVir fowls are kept, men who have had a life-ion fir association with all branches of the Poultry Industry, and it is fair to assume that they know what they are talking about, and what they are doing. The scientific aspect of the feeding questmen in connection with fowls has asimmed considerable importance in recedt times, and the Karswood Company keep an up-to-date touch with the science of foods and feeding by a staff acquisition in one who has made the subject his special business, and whose advice upon feeding questions has been accepted by all and sundry as the practical common-sense of the feeding problem. The history of the Karswood Company proves that their policy has never been to do things by halves. As a business organisation the directors are out to serve the public in a way which commands confidence by dispensing products which are in every sense efficient and equal to achieving the purpose for which they are offered. The Karswood Company see no business wisdom in pouring out cash for advertising an article which cannot bear the severest practical tests because it would be a gigantic waste, and would quickly bring the solid Karswood business edifice to the tottering stage. The Karswood Company make lasting friends of

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their customers by frank, open, honest business methods which will bear the light of day. Deception is not a part of their Stock-in-trade. That business confidence has been established which has eaused tho sales of Karswood to increase to the extent of four times what they were three years arro. What more definite proof of the virtues of a product could be presented? Wi: tir Eggs Now as regards these winter csss. The dark, short,, dull day 3 are now with U 3, but the laying hen is exneetod to continue her productive efforts within the reduced daylight hours available. All the exerdso necessary to health and ail tho nourishing eEE-making material by which she can hope to achieve the purpose has to be secured within the limits of daylight winter obrmits. It is obviou.3 that to enable “Biddy" to do her share in paying the rent and keeping the houso door open with her cstrs. she must not only have proper care, but she must bo nourished nutritively so that she can rapidly extract from it that 75 per cent, of rich food the solids of the ege contains. Tho diet must not only be appetising, but it must be nutritious and readily assimilable. A Co&xer — Not a “Pusher 5 ’ Karswood Poultry Spice is too well known to require any Writing up. It commands a growing sale, many times greater than any poultry spice ever offered, and it has emerged triumphantly from every conceivable form of test. Tho old hands shy at the word “spice.” but it is almost needless to make the reminder that there are spices and spice*. The Karswood Poultry Spice contains no harmful ingredients in the form of hot. pungent elonjents. such as pepper, mustard cayenne, etc. It is not a “pusher.” It does not force. It tunes up the physical machine. It enables the digestive scheme to function effectively and to extract every particle of nutriment and egg-making material from the food consumed by encouraging the flow of the natural digestive juices. In other words, it acts as a natural lubricant to the whole physical organisation of the laying hen. and is thorough in its action without any harmful effects whatsoever, because the stimulation it creates is slow and natural. The Karswood Poultry Snice is the safe friend of the poultry-keeper at all times, but when he is after winter eggs its help is specially wolcome. The idea behind the Karswood products is to make an afly of Nature, net to force her. Nature can be led but never bullied. She can be encouraged and coaxed but never urged profitably. The scheme of manufacture in connection with Karswood is conceived with the one object of preserving completely the fine natural food elements present in all Dame Nature's provisions which involve cooking and superheating.

You want winter eggs? The poultrykeeper who is not getting them now must bo the rare person who has never heard of Karswood. The Karswood scheme of management has given both pleasure and profit to many a harassed poultry-keeper

If you have adopted the Karswood system and are working it carefully, you are now getting an abundance of winter eggs and benofitting accordingly through the elevating market prices. You will be doing your friends a stock! turn by broadcasting the reason of your success and recommending a trial of Karswood Poultry Spice.

Pullst Lays 9 Eggs in 8 Days

31. Belmont Grove. Chiswick. Chiswick. London. W. 4

It may be very interesting to you to know another remarkable case concerning Karswood Poultry Spice, of which I shall have great pleasure in writing you. I have kept poultry since 1916 in a very small backyard. For the first 12 month# I tried many egg-producing specialities, but finally had nothing else to do but decide on Karswood Poultry Spice. We have had remarkable results the whole way through, but to-day have been greatly surprised, and I think you will adr.At that I have cause. A pullet hatched in July from a London shop egg started laying last Friday, and up to to-day has laid nino eggs in eight days. To-day is the remarkable day. as she has laid three eggs between 7.30 a.m. and 5 p.m. We can certainly put all down to Karswood Poultry Spice. Trusting this will be good and beneficial news to you. 17th Feb.. 1922. H. L. EDWARDS. “Fortunes from Eggs" 36 Thorburn St.. Wavertree Rd., Liverpool.

Would you kindly] send your poultry book.! “Fortunes from Eggs.”! for which I enclose' Postal Order and stamps value 1/3. to the above] address. I might men-’ lion that I have usedj your Karswood Poultry Specialities for the last two years, and as a prolific egg - producer, Karswood Poultry Spicei is absolutely unbeat-1 J. F. MARSHALL. § 15th Feb.. 1922. I

Note the Economy. 4d Packet supplies 12 hens one week. 1/- Packet supplies 20 hens 16 days. 2/- Packet supplies 20 hens 32 days. 7ib Tin (14./-) supplies 140 hens 32 days. 14lb Tin (23/6) supplies 280 hens 32 days. 281 b Tin (45/6) supplies 560 hens 32 days. Halfpenny a Day to Make Twelve Lay. One tablespoonful (V2OZ.) of Karswood Poultry Spice is sufficient for 20 hens for One day. so that it costs you less than Vad per day for every dozen fowls. Try a Shilling Packet. Ask your poultry food dealer to supply you with a 1/- packet of Karswood Poultry Spice, adding postage if necesaary. and try it for a fortnight on half a dozen hens. Results are not instantaneous —it takes a fortnight or three weeks to improve the egg returns. If your local dealer cannot supply, send a postcard to the New Zealand agents (address below}, asking the name of the nearest dealer who supplies Karswood Poultry Spice.

Fairbairn, Wright & Co. Lichfield St., Christchurch, Moore 3t. Auckland, Old Customs House St.. Wellington. and Moray Place, Dunedin.

NOTE. —The sole manufacturers of Karswood Poultry Spice (containing ground insects)are E. Griffiths Hughes Ltd., Manchester, England, established 1756, in the reign of George the Second.