1921.] 



Notes on Poultry Keeping. 



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NOTES ON POULTRY KEEPING. 



Fall in Prices of Eggs and of Feeding Stuffs.— Poultry 

 keepers may gather some consolation for the recent rapid fall 

 in the price of eggs from the fact that the wholesale prices of 

 feeding stuffs have also fallen considerably during recent weeks 

 on the London market (see table). 



Price, iceek ended 

 3nl Nov., 1920. Wh Feb., 1921. 



per £ s. £ s. 



Wheat (British Feeding) ... 504 lb. 4 11 3 5 



Barley „ „ ... 400 1b. 4 5 1 16 



Oats (English) 336 lb. 2 19 2 1 



Fish Meal ton 25 22 



Barley Meal „ 25 17 15 



Maize Meal „ 19 12 17 



Coarse Middlings (British) ... „ 15 10 12 10 



Bran (British) „ 14 10 11 10 



Fine Middlings (Imported) ... „ 20 10 14 10 



Pollards (Imported) „ 15 15 110 



Note. — The prices of meals and offals given above are not for less than 

 2 ton lots ex-mill or store. 



The average fall in price for all the feeding stuffs shown is 

 approximately 29 per cent, from the beginning of November to 

 the middle of February. Barley meal and maize meal have 

 fallen £7 5s. and £6 3s. per ton, or 29 and 33 per cent., 

 respectively, whilst the price of fine imported middlings has 

 fallen nearly 30 per cent., and English oats and pollards also 

 show a fall of about 30 per cent. With the exception of 

 English barley, which is usually only used to anv extent for 

 poultry feeding by the general farmer, all these feeding stuffs 

 figure largely in the poultry keeper's feeding stuffs bill. 



On the other hand the average price of best British eggs has 

 fallen from 5s. 2Jd. per dozen for the week ending 3rd November, 



1920, to 3s. 6d. per dozen for the week ending 16th February, 



1921, a reduction of Is. 8Jd. per dozen or 33 per cent. The price 

 of eggs usually falls at this season of the year, but the fall this 

 year has been much greater than in the corresponding period of 

 1919-20. The average price for the week ending 5th November, 

 1919. was 5s. OJd. per dozen, and for the week ending 18th 

 February, 1920, 3s. 10 Jd. per dozen, a reduction of Is. 2d. per 

 dozen or 23 per cent. 



It is estimated by leading poultry farmers that the cost of 

 feeding stuffs constitutes about 60 per cent, of the total charges 



