POULTRY NOTES

Colonist, Volume XLVIX, Issue 11771, 30 October 1906, Page 4

POULTRY NOTES

(By "Chanticleer.") It is some time since the hatching of birds for table was advocated in these coluiuds. If they were hatched at tbe proper time they should now .be about half grown. It is bow time to see about fattening for market. Have them put in small pens, birds that have small runs never fatten so easily. Let the food he pollard and bran" with the grain crushed. If possible mix the food with milk. Do not give them too much drink. Ahout two to four weeks of this 'i treatment should put them in tip top condition for the market. Those who 1 have reared birds early this season should get a good price for them now on account of the Exhibition. ln ■ marketing be careful to ship only evenlots. One extra good bird in a small lot makes the others show to disadvantage. We" are pleased to note much better prices for table poultry and eggs i this year. Prime cockerels bring up i to 7s 6d in. Wellington and eggs : are Is Id. Poultry men have no rea- ' son to grumbld at these prices*