THE POULTRY INDUSTRY.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VI, Issue 1808, 29 November 1919, Page 3

THE POULTRY INDUSTRY.

[Edited by J. B. Merrett.] STOVE BROODING.

! When in Australia last year the j writer was much impressed with the system of brooding in the largo poultry plants. In addition to the mammoth incubators holding from 5000 to 20,000 eggs, brooder stoves were installed to further economise labour. Two of these ! stoves were brought to Christchurch ,and purchased by Mr F. A. Eollinson, IKaiapoi. They provide heat for 500 i chicks in one floek. They burn coke j for fuel and are very economical. A 1 large tin radiator deflects the heat and (the chicks just nestle on the floor in a bunch and enjoy comfort. The stove is placed in a room 10 x 12, well ven- \ tilated and the r> whole of the space is j occupied by tlfe clucks. On Tuesday Messrs Liggins, Marsden, and the writer ! visited Mr Rollinson's plant which is I one of the best in Canterbury. It was j with some pride we were led to the brooder house and shown the 550 chicks in one flock. They were a pieture. Mr (Bollinson says that stove brooding is j the secret of chicken rearing. You I have only one house and one run for , 500 chicks. No gates to open to a I number of runs, no running from pen to pen to feed. Adjoining the brooder j room is a scratching shed where the chicks are fed and watered. The pullets in the colony houses form one of | the finest flocks of young stock to be | seen anywhere, and Messrs Liggins and Marsden admitted this. They had been i stove brooded—were maturing quickly — tight in feather and the pieture of health. In demonstrating the system, Mr Eollinson showed the visitors that with four of these simple stoves 2000 chicks could be raised as easily as 200 under the old system. Mr Liggins was much impressed with the stove and intends to try one out next season. The Poultry Institute will also adopt them while several of the leading breeders around Kaiapoi are so impressed with the labour-saving appliance that next season will see many of them in use. On Mr Bollinson's farm was to be seen a fine flock of layers. His son, who has just returned from the Front, is a great enthusiast and live wire in poultry culture. The plant is to be doubled and in a few months will be one of the largest in Canterbury. A SUCCESSFUL SOLDIER. Everyone likes to see the returned soldier succeed. The Repatriation Board

may feel justly proud of Mr Whitford, a returned soldier who purchased Mr Child's plant at Kaiapoi. He has only been in possession a few months, was inexperienced, and yet he has made good and is delighted with his prospects. He has nearly 1000 chicks and expects to have 500 layers for next season. When one views the work and progress made by this young soldier one can only regret that the poultry settlement for Canterbury was not given a chance. Prices for eggs and poultry are high and they will remain so until the industry has more consideration from those in power. Eecent advice from Australia states that the returned men from Bankstown are doing remarkably well in the poultry settlement.

NOTES. The lecture on "Poultry Management," by Mr J. Liggins, will be held in the Chamber of Commerce on Thursday, December 11. On Thursday next addresses on poultry will be given at Kaiapoi by several members of the committee of the Canterbury Egg Circle. Mr J. H. Blackwell, Mayor of Kaiapoi, will preside. The New Zealand Poultry Institute has finished hatching for the season, but will commence autumn hatching early in the year. A fattening plant for j table poultry is also to be added for i next season's work. | On Thursday Mr ,T. Liggins enter-1 tained at his farm a number of the returned soldiers from the Sanatorium. On Thursday evening Mr John Jarvis I was entertained at Palmerston North ] and presented with a purse in appre-! ciation of his services on behalf of fanciers. • - It is expected the "New Zealand Poultry Standard" will be read}' for' distribution early in the year. The conference to be held at Dunedin in March will be largely attended. The Dunedin committee intend to give visitors a royal time. Eggs are in firm demand and the price will advance next week. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. "E. H. \Y." —There is no danger in feeding egg shells if they arc crushed up in small pieces. They are useful, top, for chickens. The best time of year to sell your hens is after the laying is done, in March. If there are any drones or culls they should be sold now, as the prices are high, and the few eggs they lay will not compensate for loss in feed. **H. H."— Poultry-farming is one of the best-paying propositions for the capital involved. The great essential Is experience. At present prices for eggs and poul- j try, the poultry-keepers are making good | money. If they arc not, they are muddlers, j

and would fail at anything. Poultry-keep-ing has been so much decried that there Is n shortage of egg-production, nnd high prices must rule. If you want to be a poultry farmer get experience first. Put your money out at Interest, and it will keep and be ready for you when you have experience. If you begin without experience, you will most likely lose your money, and make little progress In experience. "Returned Soldier."—The poultry settlement scheme for returned men would have been a great success. Opportunity has been lost. In New South Wales over 400 soldiers have been started, and arc doing well. In New Zealand they have a far better chance. The Government seems to be against the scheme, and that's the end of it. Every poultry-keeper I know of any note is doubling his plant, and praying for others to keep out, so as the present high prices may continue. "Inquirer."—The best green feed is Juccrnc. It is easily grown, and may be chaffed and used in the mash. If y«u have water cress, lawn clippings or vegetables, they arc all of great value as green feed. Green feed" is a purifier of the blood, and gives colour to the egg. It should be fed daily.

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