Corcrik . 1906 
The Poultrg Yard. 
Ducks. 
Hatch largely 
eep them clean 
Shade the ducklings 
Provide abundant water 
Keep the ducks well bedded 
on’t bed ducklings on sawdust 
Put the green food in the water 
There will be a shortage this year 
atching is almost generally late this 
Season 
Give the ducklings meat after they aze 
* Week old 
A profusion of greenstuff and animal 
food is of great importance 
Go to F. F. Clement, for all kinds of 
ultry food and disinfectants 
Ducklings will relish milk in any form, 
“nd it will bring them on wonderfully 
f Ducklings are scarcer in the market, 
r this time of year than we have ever 
Nown them to be before 
nder any circumstances it will prob- 
ably pay breeders to hatch every egg, as 
ety thing points to good prices for table 
Inds during the comming season, 
eed will probably continue to go down 
"price, so that the cost of production 
paula be small enough to allow of good 
Ofity 
ie he following clipping“from “ Auckland 
«nokly News.” sent by a subscriber ;— 
} That Indian Runner ducks are good 
j,2°tS is never doubted, and the follow- 
we testimony from the Rev. J. W. 
lliams, Vicar, to an English paper is 
ether proof of the extraordinary pro- 
«tiveness of this variety of water-fowl : 
lay 2 clergyman of the Church of Eng- 
tr a, I can vouch for the following being 
ey One of my sidesmen, Mr. Baigh, 
fin. OY Hill Farm, has a small flock of 
®Indian Runner ducks. These same 
*k8 laid as follows recently :— Wednes- 
6 » 8 eges; Thursday, 8 eggs; Friday, 
fives or twenty eggs in three days to 
ere packs. The thing seems almost in- 
the Ible, but asI know for a fact that 
0 ao Are no other ducks about, and no 
lay? out the premises to perpetrate a 
day? Hat the eggs are gathered every 
oth ‘nd thet the proper quantity for the 
is “" days remained undisturbed, there 
feecry reason to believe that these 
“on “ners have done a double performance 
t Leg days,’ ” 
ey 
Advice about Poultry. 
Be Nergetic 
Rk out for lice 
‘ve shaded runs 
tog et to improye 
Do ak up the broodies 
Sey t got that tired feeling 
7 : the crossbred chickens 
Pu, *Y One should keep a few hens 
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THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
Don’t let the heat destroy your energy 
Keep your weather eye on the chickens 
Cleanliness is of special importance 
now 
The advent of summer demands care- 
ful treatment 
This is the lice season; make suro they 
do not get a footing 
Plenty of shade must be provided at 
this time of the year 
Keep the waterpots full and in nice 
shady corners 
The season just passing away isa long 
way ahead of anything we have had yet 
Good hatches were fairly general this 
year as far as we can gather 
Have you tried F. J. Anthony & Co.’s 
Incubators? Seo advertisement 
The prospects are for a warm—a de- 
cidely warm summer; make provision 
for it 
plentitully supplied with green food 
Don’t throw down long pieces of green- 
stuff this weather 
See D. Lanyon’s advertisement, and 
then go and see him 
There is all the difference in the world 
between an old ramshackle dirty house, 
and a neatly built, well whitewashed one 
By the way, it’s time to spill a little 
whitewash about. Get it on before the 
lice begin to breed 
If you are not particularly careful about 
keeping your houses strictly clean during 
the summer months, you will have plenty 
of disease to occupy your time and pre- 
vent that long promised clean up 
Seperate the cockerels from the pullets. 
Tt is 2 most important feature,and should 
be carefully done at the earliest possible 
opportunity. 
Give the early hatched pullets free run 
on a nice, green, wellshaped plot. Dowt 
flurry them; 1 spoils their development. 
Are your birds snow white, or inclined 
to go brassy if not shaded ? If the latter, 
don’t lose time providing the necessary, 
A reader wants to know why we can’t 
hatch eggs like the Mallee Hen, by just 
cove:ing thei with a thin layer of earth 
and leaving them. Guess we’d better ask 
tha Mallee. 
Reports are pouring in from all direc- 
tions, providing an abundance of pithy 
pars for the edification and instruction 
of our readers. 
We will be glad to hear from all readers 
regarding their hatching successes or 
otherw se. Tell us tonethiug you have 
learnt this season. 
If yon have done hatching, gather up 
the setting nests, give them a thorough 
cleansing and disinfecting, and a final 
whitewashing, aud put them carefully 
away for next season. 
Also, break up broodies as soon as they 
appear, dnd get them back to laying 
again Don’t leave them on the nest for 
a week or so to confirm the feeling, and 
introduce lice to the layers. 
There is a good thing to be made by 
the man who offers to supply at a reason- 
able price a broody hen with a setting if 
required, 
Keep the chickens well shaded and 
breeding and egg production, 
i 
Feeding Fowls. 
Have the mash crumbly. 
Warm quarters mean less feed. 
Sour food breeds disease and death. 
You cannot feed for eggs and meat at 
the same time. 
Improper feeding is the cause of much 
sickness. 
Wash the drinking vessels regularly 
and cften. 
Heavy egg production is impossible on 
stinted rations. 
Greenstuff is the most important part 
of the summer diet. 
Milk in any form is an egg producer 
and health promoter. 
Good oats form one of the best poultry 
feeds and should be kept on hand by 
every poultryman. 
Linseed meal given now will keep up 
the egg production and put tho birds into 
fine condition to withstand tho strain of 
moulting. 
Corn is too heating to be largely used 
in the summer ration. Oats and wheat 
should now be the staple grains. 
Animal food does not signify fer- 
tiliser ; if you can’t get anything else, 
and hayen’t a bone cutter, use the soup 
obtained from boiling fresh butcher's 
bones. It’s real good. 
When we consider tke strength and 
vitality of the various animals which sub- 
sist solely on grass, etc., we can fully 
comprehend its value as a food savor. 
Summer demands a less heating diet 
than in coldérweather. More bran than 
usual, and an abundance of greenstuff 
will help the birds on at this season, 
Green cut bone is the greatest egg 
producing food inthe world. I¢ is a food 
that cannot be omitted from the diet to 
have the best results obtainable, both in 
While the 
most prominent proultrymon know this 
to be a fact, there are thousands upon 
thousands of breeders who are still ignor- 
aat upon the subject. 
J. Dryden in the “Utah State Farmers 
Institute Annual,” shows how a bushel of 
wheat worth 50 cents can be turned into. 
eggs valued at 3} dollars. He says: “We 
are crying every day for factories, why 
not boom the hen,” 
B. F. (Macksville) writes: “Having nv 
other greenstuff this winter but thistles. 
we have cut up and given them plentifully 
to the hens, with white corn and butter- 
milk twice a week, and kept locked until 
7-30 a.m. I have had from 40 hens, 
during June, 7 to 9 dozen eggs a week, 
July 10 to 12 dozen and up to 15 dozen a 
week. I think the thistles are responsible 
Also find plenty of oyster-shell, broken 
- crockery, and green cut bone twice a 
week,” 
It is well known that thistles Possess a. 
desided tonic tendency, and are undoubt- 
edly a grand green food. The other 
elements—butter-milk, shell, bone, grit-. 
may have had more to do with the egg 
yield, which, though not exceptional is 
good for a river farmer 
