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THE AUSTRALIAN. GARDENER. 
August' 1, 1907 .< 
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least, the more crowded they are the less: 
profitable will they become. Remrimber, : 
that a few good birds of a noted laying — 
strain. will return a greater nnmber of 
eggs. than a large: flock kept together,’ < 
Thig has been exemplified over and over 
again at the egg-laying c»mpetitiohs 
throughout Australia. To those desirous 
of keeping a few birds to supply the 
requisite morning: egg, I cannot do batter 
than urge them to secure a broody hen as 
svon as possible, and thus secure the 
early chick and iamunity from chicken - 
pox. : 
“A World’s Egg-laying Record. 
Mr. W L. Williams, of Sunnyhurst 
Poultry Farm, Clarendon, should be in a 
happy state of mind: he has again won a 
laying competition —.at Subiaco, West 
Australia, this time. In doing so he has 
established a world's record, viz. 1,494 . 
eggs from six birds, laid in 365 days, the 
previous record being 1,481 eggs. Not only 
are we raising the record from time to 
time, but our breedersare so improving 
their strain’ that a 209-egys-per-annum 
hen is becoming somewhat commonplace. ~ 
When our farmers have a fair percentage 
of even 200-eggs-per-year hens among 
their flocks our egg production will in- 
crease by leaps and bounds. These six 
hens have produced eggs which, at the 
average market price of 8d. per dozen, are 
worth £4 3s.; the cost of the six hens 
for one year’s food should not exceed 
£1 10s:, so that, at that reckoning, there 
is a profit of £2 13s, or nearly 9s. per hen, 
The actual profit will be very much more 
as the price for eggs is so good in West 
Austaalia. 
To Correspondents. 
“ Pp. Simpson.”— We can recommend 
Mr D. Lanyon’s incubator as one of. the 
best in the market. We cannot ‘sive you 
full directions how to work one, in would 
take too much space. If you write to his 
address, Rundle streets Kent Town, he 
will forward you full printed instructions 
aud_ other notes of interest. 
“Australian 
Gardener ” Office, 
Corner Pirie & Wyatt Sts. 
Send us along a trial order. 
_ kerosine on the water. 
Destroying the Codlin Moth. 
THE KEROSINE LAMP ERFRCLIVE. 
The following interesting letter has 
been received by Messrs Wilkinson & Co 
from Mr §. Cochrane Macky, of Daven- 
port, America: — - ~~ 
Sir—In over fifty years’ experience I 
never saw moths so plentiful in cultiva- 
tions as during the past season. Even 
now, in turning over the soil one finds 
moths as lively as crickets On May 2, 
1902, an extract from a letter received 
from California was published and from 
it I take the following :—What is be- 
lieved to be an effectual method of con- 
quering codlin moths has been discovered 
by C. R. Frasier, an experienced horti- 
culturist of Walla Walla Couniy. For 
several yerrs since codlin moths began to 
damage the fruit crops of this State 
Frasier has been experimenting. Last 
year he succeeded in raising a splendid. 
crop of apples and other frnits, while 
orchards adjoiuing his bore fruits that 
were badly moth-eaten. In an orchard of 
35 acres he scattered 50 large tin kerosine 
lamps so made that chimneys were un- 
neeessary. Hach night during moth time 
the lamps were filled and lighted. burning 
until morning. They attracted to them 
millions of moths which were burned and 
destroyed.’ It was twelve months since IL 
recovered the above exrract which I had 
mislaid after cutting it out, The d fficuity 
was to get the right kind of limp, as [ 
considered the torch lights used by strest 
bands generafed too much smoke to be 
efficient It struck me that the limp out 
of a ‘ Perfection’ heater inizht better suit, 
so | borrowed one and tried it first for 
a couple of nights, afterwards for seven 
consecutive nights, and as your readers 
m-ty possibly be interested in the result £ 
will relate the method I adopted. The 
first two night’s trial proved that the 
lamp was al‘, that could be desired so far 
as burning with a good-flame and a 
minimum amount of smo‘e, but I did not 
find as mauy burnt moths on the papers 
Thad spread aroa d the Jamp as I had 
expeeted. For the seven night’s trial [ 
used a milk-pan 22 in. in diameter and 
3in. deep. In this I placed near the 
centre two bricks‘on. their sides about - 
On this the iamp was placed . 
2 in, apart. 
and then [ putabout 2 in of water in the 
pan and sprinkled about half a pint of 
The result was 
simply astonishing. as the tin was full of 
moths, which did not appear tv be even 
singed. On the fifth morning the moths 
seemed to have been thinued so much 
that I decided to discontinue the experi- 
ment. But before doing so I decided to 
count how many had been caught on the 
previous night and to my surprise found 
887 in the tin, sol continned for the 
seven nights as‘originally intended. The 
lamp I used was the largest sizel Perfec- 
tion and [ used nearly one tin of kerosine 
for the seven nights. Since then [ have 
tried a smnaller:size Perfection lamp, and 
it does not burn more than. half the 
quantity of kerosene,and woull, [ believe, 
give equalty good results. IL feei satisfied 
we will require to use something of the 
kid during the moth season here if we: 
wish tu conquer the insect pests in our’ 
gerdens and orchards. ‘She ide. is realiy 
not new, as L am told the French haye: 
used fires an t lamps for many. years past 
during the moth season, the poor using 
the former and the yentry the latter. 
Plant Notes. 
Nastnrtiums are exceedingly easy of 
culture and give satisfaction far in excess 
of wha; little attention they require 
would lead. one to expect. Tne tall 
varieties; are excellent for covering ob- 
jectionable spots in a remarkably short 
time, good also for hanging from the edge 
of tubs or boxes. The dwarf varieties are 
well adapted for beds or borders. Elther 
grown from s3ed sown in the greenhouse, 
or seed sowa right in the open grounl, 
they go ahead to fulfil their mission, 
Lobelia cardinalis stands exposure much 
better than coleus or ochyranthes, and 
when it. is desirable to plaut’ somelhing 
that will give a coler effect somewhat 
similar to the latter in exposed places 
Lobelia cardinalis will auswer the pur- 
pose The flowers as well as the foliage 
are red, as the name denotes. Tote 
Phlox Drummondii.—Among the inost. 
satisfactory annuals for bedding purposes 
is Phlox Drummondii, especially the 
white. It flowers profusely all throujh 
the season and the flowers hold them- 
selves Conspicaously over the foliage that 
at a distance only a blaze of bloom is 
visible. A great many annuals are either 
so stragyly or remain so short a time ia 
flower that they are undesirable for formal 
beds, but among those thac are otherwise 
constituted Phlox Drammondii 1s note- 
wWorshy. 
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