February, 1910 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
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Gowernment Poultry Station. 
Agricultural College, Roseworthy. 
Eggs and Chickens for Sale during Season. 
Black Orpington, Buff Orpington, and Indian Game—Eggs, lis., Chickens, 80s. a dozen, 
Silver Wyandott 
Table Birds— Eggs from various crosses, 3s.. when 
Settings will be 15 eggs and no replacements. 
For further particulars apply to the 
College, Roseworthy. 
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discrimination may be brought about by 
buying by weight, by~docking all lots of 
eggs of less than a certain average weight, 
or culling out all eggs less than a given 
weight or size, and paying considerably 
lower prices for these culls. If this were 
done, we would see farmers weeding out 
the hens laying smal! eggs. 
The greatest handicap to the egg trade 
of Victoria is in my opinion, the store- 
keeper with his custom of bartering 
merchandise for egy. He reckons his 
profits on goods as more than his loss Gf 
any) on eggs. No effort is made by the 
storekeer to buy eggs on a quality basis 
or to induce his clients to improve their 
flocks. 
(To be Continued.) 
Led 
Metamorphosis of a Fancier. 
When first I started in to breed. 
In quite a modest way, 
T had one bold outstanding need— 
‘Yo show, and win the day. 
I bred alone for ‘‘ fads” and “ points,” 
In eayer search of fame ; 
“Tn face of all that disappcints, 
Win prizes ”—was my aim, 
Alas! ambition tottered sore 
In face of common sense ; 
availakle. 
Chickens at a month old. 
es, Haverolles, Minorca, White Wyandotte, White Leghorn, Old English Game—Eggs, 1Cs,, Chickens, 21s. a dozen. 
he stock is of first-class quality and vigorous 
Poultry Expert, Crown Lands Offices, or the Poultry Superintendent, Agricultural 
I found that I could show no more 
Because of tack of pence. 
And so [ boldly advertised, 
Stood up on both my legs, 
And opposition puralysed 
In sales of stock and eggs. 
It seemed I’d found a certain cure 
Yor all the breeders ills, 
But fancy sales fell off as sure 
As rose the feed man’s bills. 
. And so I struck another grade, 
And one that’s hard to beat; 
I’m sure most money’s to be made 
In‘ market eggs aud meat.” 
” 
—An experience, translated by ‘ Forrest 
in an Exchange. 
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Poultry Brevities. 
See that all drinking vessels are 
thoroughly cleansed each week with hot 
water and washing soda. 
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No better means of spreading chicken 
cholera exists than by. the means of 
impure water-vessels. 
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A fowl that has contracted : chicken 
cholera frequents the water-vessel to 
assuage its raging thirst. As it drinks it 
leaves the disease germs in-the water. 
Then, as the water-vessel is visited by 
healthy fowls, they assorb the germs, and 
chicken cholera spreads through a healthy 
flock. 
INCUBATOR 
enema 
simplex 
D. Lanyon 
NORTH TERRACE, KENT TOWN 
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