POULTRY NOTES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 12 August 1913, Page 6

POULTRY NOTES.

(By Utilitarian.) A Master ton breeder of Brown Logiiurus states that last .year lie had but few inquiries for cockerels ol' this breed, consequently he did not retain many this season. Nevertheless. ho affirms he could easily this year have disposed of a couple of ■ "dozen or more for mating. Other . Brown Leghorn breeders take , note, j if yi'ju hav<j any surplus stud birds advertise your wares; lato as it is now for purchasing males, there are sure to bo a' few whose procrastination has found them short of requirements. Langdalo is now represented on the Utility Egg Circle, a lady from there having recently thrown in her lot with local members. The Age rei cently had a paragraph anent the probabilities of a motor lorry being established for Langdale and Tinui for collecting cream. Is it not feasible for poultrykeepers in these outlying districts to avail themselves of the "lew service and have their eggs collected, and delivered to the local depot of the Utility Circle? There are' many farmers away Back . who /would be only too glad to join the Circle provided some means of getting their eggs regularly to market could be found, and we feel that the motor service is. just the modus opsfrandi. The directors of the Masterton butter, factory should be interviewed, and unless they • anticipatp their lorry will be loaded to Pilnvsoll, would, likely enough, be only top •pleased to add some grist to their motor mill, by making a.moderate charge for egg collecting. Langdale and Tinui etettlers who are desirous of carrying out the above suggestion should communicate with the Utility Circle's chairman. Mr H. J. O'Learv, Masterton. If there are sufficient numbers interested some one would probably go out on behalf of the Circle and supply all particulars. Langdab and Tinui poultrykeepers "bestir yourselves, and don't stand still waiting for the other fellow to make a move. Those who have had eggs to market the last three months must hav( been well satisfied , with the rjrices obtained, especially for July,. as. conv pared with former years. Beginneiv will be tempted to hatch additiona • i quantities this season in anticipatior of a repetition; go ahead, but hatel . according to: your hoysjng accommo >' dation. A h\indr^,:'" : well : raised Is: i heii.pr hand,, is wprth two huridra £ in . the huddle-'em-iip, oV.er-cr'owded ' half-starved, style.; ! Believers inr or disciples of Norma' ' Angell, the author of the world-re&i I book "The Or eat Illusion," who als< happen to be poultrykeepers . wit) ' much or little to sell, and who ar [ believers in the .possibility of th; ■ world's'-peace, should certainly mak I it their business to' belong to an -egj - circle.. An e£g circle is a co-opera i tiva affair; co-operation is graduall, ' being * extended throughout tli i world; and co-operation itself „is i i baj3is for peftce. I Moisture fn incubators is nfl r cessary. Hatches can be obtainei 1 with the machines run dry,, but i 3 will be found the best results righ - through the-'season, will he got i . moisture is applied. The theor 1 is as follows: When the animal hea - commences to rise, carbon dioxide i i thrown off, and the water applied b i the operator also contains a larg s proportion of dioxide. The two min J gling together dissolves the carbor a ate of lime,'contained in the shel 3 thus assisting rapid evaporation, an 3 also development of the aif cell. I - will almost invariably be found tha - the "last of the chickens, especiall - if the hatch is prolonged unduly e will have a decided tendency to stic

in tlie shell, owing to too much dry-

ing up. Extra moisture should then be applied, either by, inserting every few hours si flannel Which lias been soaked in fairly 'hot water, and wrung out. This ca.ii be nut right inside at the back of the incubator, while the hatch is in progress, the door beingshut again as quickly s as possible. Or, another plan is ; to pour boiling water on th efloor un-

derneath the incubator three times a day. A wooden floor, of course, would: be hardly suitable far tHhis,

but if the floor is of wood a bucket of hot water stood under the machine may assist, covered with a cloth. Moisture, is applied properly, however, from an early stage in the incubation, should obyiate, in Very many cases, extra work at the end of the hatch. Those chickens which are the slowest to hatch, out will genially be found to be the weaklings.