AN EXPORT MARKET.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 217, 17 October 1914, Page 5

AN EXPORT MARKET.

FOR EGGS; Reporting to the Agricultural Department, Mr E. Clifton, who is how in America in connection with the representation of New Zealand at the Panama Exposition, upon the egg market, states thiat on July 7 "extra" eggs are quoted at I/Of per dozen; "firsts," per dozen, lljd. Here the activity of the Seattle merchants is shown. The Bradner Company of that city is already in the field. Arrangements have been completed to import New Zealand eggs. A member of the firm proceeds to New; Zealand to be at hand at the beginning of the season. It is recognised that no great number of eggs can be bought in New Zealand at present, but as the seasons are opposite, all eggs that can be obtained are valuable here at Seattle in November and December.

the shade as far as possible, particularly the water;, in fact, this refers to all poultry. Where the water is allowed to get almost \yarm it assists diarrhoea. Boiled rice is a good meal to give the chicks in such weather. Mr W. H. Doyle, Braxton, New South Wales, who recently secured the Black Red Game Bantam cockerel exhibited by Mr T. W. Richmond at the last Christchurch show writes: —-The bird is a nice, stylish little chap, good head and eye,' good hackle, tail, legs and feet, with plenty, of reach. He has mated the bird with two hens very short in the body, and a very good imported hen. - Mr L. S. Macdonald, who seored first in the White Leghorn hen utility class at the last show, has been removed to Dunedin. He has taken his stock with him. < , > Out of a possible of 252 eggs, the six pens of ducks at the Papanui competition laid 236 eggs for the week, a highly satisfactory total, Mr T. R. Hall's pen being worthy of special mention with the possible. A few days ago we read of the .news, per Pigeon Post, of the steamer Kittawa having picked up the disabled Kini, who unfortunately broke her tail-shaft while on the trip from Napier to Greymouth. In the present European war we are also acquainted of an arrest in England of a person, evidently a spy, for liberating pigeons for Germany. These instances tend to prove the value of Homing Pigeons, which is greater than is generally surmised. In Christchurch we have two powerful Homing Pigeon Clubs of enthusiastic members, and their birds are trained to home from Auckland and Gisborne in the north. The south line was used at times to Invercargill, but the railway authorities not permitting the use of the first express for carrying the hampers, and the second train being inconvenient, this route was abandoned. It would appear that when other lines of communication are abolished it is found necessary to fall back on the Homing pigeon; under the circumstances one would think that the Government would give every assistance in the training of the birds. Canary eggs should not be handled. If you wish to remove them from the nest, use a teaspoon; the shell is very frail and easily broken. When breeding canaries, by removing the first eggs until the third morning, and then replacing them in the nest, you will have the eggs all hatch about the same time. It is a usual thing to see a nest of five and two of the brood as big again as the remainder. Where one or two get such a start the later birds do not have a chance, and by removing the earlier eggs this is prevented and you get a more general nest. At the last meeting of the Christchurch Canary and Cage Bird Club there was a very good attendance of members, and a large amount of general business was attended to. Messrs W. Goss and A. Craig were elected members of the club. AMONG THE BREEDERS. MR T. W. RICHMOND, ADDINGTON. Mr T. W. Richmond, of Collins Street, Addington, is a fancier of some 23 years' standing, and during that time lie has kept fancy pigeons, principally Turbots and English Owls, the former variety being bis specialty. Of late he has given up the pigeons, and of the feather fancy his time is now given up to the breeding of Game Bantams. His stud is a small but select one. It will be remembered of that large shipment landed a few years back by Mr L. Wilson, of Teddington, a pair of very fine

direction, and the runs are all under the roof. His stock birds, all but the males, have free range in the afternoon, and all appear to be in the best of health. With the interest that he takes in his birds, Mr Harraan should make a good fancier. liß W. HALEY, SPBEYDON. At the foot of Young Street, off Somerfield Street, and gunning back to the river. Heathe ote, is an ideal place for keeping poultry, and the residence of Mr W. Haley. Before the utility rage, Mr Haley exhibited Black Orpingtons and Black Leghorns, but now his time is given only to Utility White Leghorns, and he has some 200 head. His stock are a little larger than is generally fodnd among the Utility Whites, several birds bordering close on the modern bird. He started his stock with Padman females crossed and a Hawke cockerel. Later he imported four pullets and a cockerel from Woolridge Brothers, of the Range Farm, Toowoomba, Queensland, and the majority of the birds are so bred. His houses are of the lean-to design. Under the perches he has it concreted, and says that it is easily cleaned. He has a trough arranged outside of the house, and from this he feeds the birds. The birds stand on an inside perch and feed through the bara from the perch. He has been gathering 80 dozen eggs weekly. He gives the birds a little grain on rising, mash a little later, and grain again in the evening. He has a lucerne patch, and gives this to the birds mixed up in the mash. A chaff cutter and grit mill are kept. In the incubator house two incubators were going, fully charged. The eggs are put in the machines straight from the nests. He had some eighty fine healthy-looking chicks in the brooder, which is heated by means of hot-water pipes. Mr W. Goss, who has affiliated to the Canary Club, has a liking for the ever-coming-popular Yorkshire. I believe he secured his stock from Mr Hansen, of Auckland, and. no doubt they will be good. Mr A. Craig is a new arrival here. I am told he paid attention to British finches and the breeding of same in Scotland. He will be a welcome acquisition to the :fancy here.