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THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. Augusf 1, 1908 
&LIAN 
CYCLE BEPOT. 
seer na DN cag SE en SSE a ER, 
Royal Enfield Cycles, £10 10s. to £20. 
| | Beeston Cycles, £8 10s. to £16. 
Liberal Terms. 
Exceptional Guarantee. 
Ai’ Feunmdie St.. Adelaide 
into the troughs below these cylinders, 
and as they revolve, become attached to 
them. By the time a cylinder has com- 
pleted its revolution the coating has 
dried, and further coating adheres. Ulti- 
mately this coating comes off in flaky 
pieces, which are ground into a powder. 
This powder will, it is claimed to have 
been proven, keep for years, and only 
requires the addition of milk or water, 
when the powdered eggs will reconstitute 
and be ready for use for any purpose the 
same as aa newly-laid egg. ‘The powder 
is rich and attractive-looking and is re- 
ported by the Government Analysts of 
New South Wales and Victoria to con- 
tain no chemical preservative. No part 
- of the egg, except the water, has been 
removed, 
Artificial Incubation by 
‘Electricity, 
_ Incubation by electricity is the latest 
innovation in the poultry world. After 
three years of experimenting, Otto 
Schulz, an electrician of Strassburg, 
claims to haye perfected a device where- 
by eggs are hatched with the artificial aid 
of the fluid which is working such wonders 
in other fields. In the electric incubator 
the automatic attachment keeps the tem- 
perature within one-tenth of a degree of 
the normal temperature of incubation. 
The degree of moisture in the air is also 
kept automatically. 1t is claimed for the 
electrical device that under ordinary con- 
ditions 90 chicks can be counted out of 
100 eggs. The amount of electricity 
consumed is very small. The brooder 
for raising the chickens after they are 
hatched is also heated by electricity. The 
lower part is also warmed by the same 
means, and built so the chicks can rup 
outside toeat and at the same time find 
protection and warmth within. This new - 
wonder (says the ‘Rural Californian.) 
will doubtless soon be on exhibition at 
the poultry shows and fairs, and it is 
needless to guess that great curiosity will 
be felt by all progressive breeders to ex- 
amine and test its merits. 
eras nn en Sa mT 
Pouitry-raising is getting to be of much 
more importance to the average farmer 
than it once was. instead of being a 
nuisance around the farmyard, farmers 
are beginniug to realise that there is a 
big profit in chickens, 
To obtain the best results much de- 
pends upon the fowls kept. When non- 
sitters are alone maintained, then it is 
much better to kill them off as milk- 
chickens. The heavier or general pur- 
pose varieties are not nearly so good, as 
they take longer to grow, and the sex 
cannot be distinguished at so early an age. 
But they make better birds later on, 
when the non-sitters have very little in 
the way of flesh. 
Exercise in the open air and sun- 
shine, whenever weather permits, is essen- 
tial to health and the production on 
strong-germed eggs—eggs that contain 
potential vitality, the power to live when 
properly quickened. 
The eggs and poultry produced in the 
United Kingdom are now of the value cf 
£11,590,000, and great Britain pays 
£7,967.254 per annum for imported 
poultry produce, The Irish Deparjment. 
of Agriculture expends close upon 
£10,000 a year on poultry instruction and 
“eoo stations.” 
Always in Season. 
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