MISCELLANEOUS.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11865, 20 February 1907, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

1 ■ The welcome rains of the past day i or two will come as a boon. The fowls were again beginning to show signs of sickness. Yellow faces and lobes and disinclination to move about were much in evidence. Try to turn over a fresh piece of ground now while it is not too hard. The fowls will appreciate it immensely. ' Do not expect too many eggs dur- ; ing the molt. Fowls cannot pro- * duce eggs and feathers in plenty at 1 the same time. Some birds are al- ' ready through the moult while others are not starting yet. The early moulted ones generaly prove the be3t winter layers. Many poultrymen now hatch out a few batches of chickens. They 1 claim that "* autumn-hatched birds ' make the best summer layers. Oer- * tainly the pullets commence to lay } just at the beginning of summer and 1 are wore liKely to continue through ' the summer when their older sisters - which have'been going all the spring s and probably part of the winter~be- " j fore are having a rest. The cock- ' erels too make fine table birds Jby 1 Xnias. 1 Local fanciers are eagerly looking " forward to the chicken show. Ri--3 valry seems very Keen but also very 3 itood-natured. The judges are J promised some good classes and no 1 light task in picking the birds out, f There have been several importa- * tions from England and Ameriza to " f.he colony this year. Auckland and 3 Ohristchhurch fanciers have been " chiefly the importers. We have heard of several first class trios com--1 ing to those places.