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Disqualrfications. 
Legs other than leaden-blue. 
White in face. 
Red eyes. 
Notice has been given to add at the general meeting this year :— 
“These markings to be broad and not fine like a Hamburgh’s pencillings.” 
Standard for gold Campines the same as silver, merely substituting the 
word “gold” in “ white” as above. The gold ground colour to be as rich as 
possible and not a washed-out yellow. 
SITTING HENS. 
One often hears a tender-hearted henwife pitying the poor hens for 
haying to sit so long and so patiently in hatching out a brood, and they think 
they are doing the birds a kindness by preventing their sitting, This is all a 
mistake. It is no hardship to a hen to sit; on the contrary, it is a rest and an 
advantage to her. When a hen becomes too fat to lay profitably, the proper 
remedy is to allow her to incubate. While she is on the nest she is resting 
from her labours, and undergoes no exertion or fatigue. There is little loss of 
vitality, and she has such an amount of fat about her that she is quite able to 
support her strength and life on one meal a week. Every poultry-keeper 
knows that, when feeding time comes for the rest of the poultry, the sitting 
hens, if at liberty, will seldom respond to the voice of the feeder. It is a 
natural state of affairs, and should not cause any commiseration. If, however, 
hens persist in becoming fat and lazy, the best thing to do is to sell them in 
the best market. 
MEAT FOR POULTRY. 
Fowls generally require a certain amount of nitrogenous food, which is 
wanting in cereals. Especially do laying hens improve their production when 
given a liberal supply of meat in some form or other. It has a very stimu- 
lating effect on egg-production. The food should be varied ; a constant diet of 
wheat and maize will result in many fowls rejecting it. Give plenty of green 
food as well. 
A NEW FIRE EXTINGUISHER. 
A long-felt wantin the bush (says the Pastoralists’ Review) is that of some 
fire extinguisher that can be quickly carried in suflicient quantities to prove 
effectual. A new preparation, termed “ Kilfyre,”’ seems likely to supply this 
want in an effectual manner. It isa dry powder, and is sold in tubes of some 
2 feet long. The tube is opened at one end, and the powder is thrown on to 
the burning building or haystack. As soon as the powder reaches the flame it 
gives off a gas that kills the fire. The rapidity with which the flame dies out 
when once touched with this powder is marvellous. A special advantage of this 
extinguisher is the small space it occupies and its light weight. One horseman 
could easily gallop through the bush with half-a-dozen of the tubes under his 
arm, which would be more than enough to put out any fire in any ordinary 
wooden building. A few of these tubes keyt in a woolshed, and others at the 
homestead, would prove a great safeguard. One of its advantages is that it is 
only a matter of throwing it into the flames, and no physical strength is required, 
so that even women or children could prevent a fire that was seen before the 
whole building was enveloped. 
