. Farmer and stockbreeder . Association would give con-sideration to suggestions that the County Agricul-tural Sub-Committee- should be approached with aview bo oarrying out experimental work for thebenefit of the industry at the Lancashire CountyCouncil Poultry farm near Preston Mr. Barron announced that in the near future theSociety hoped to have in progress a laying compe-tition that would be one of the best in England. The Canterbury Farmers Club, at theirejntnuial meeting on Saturday week, departed fromtheir usual rule, unbroken for twenty years, by re-electing their chairman, Mr. W. Colt
. Farmer and stockbreeder . Association would give con-sideration to suggestions that the County Agricul-tural Sub-Committee- should be approached with aview bo oarrying out experimental work for thebenefit of the industry at the Lancashire CountyCouncil Poultry farm near Preston Mr. Barron announced that in the near future theSociety hoped to have in progress a laying compe-tition that would be one of the best in England. The Canterbury Farmers Club, at theirejntnuial meeting on Saturday week, departed fromtheir usual rule, unbroken for twenty years, by re-electing their chairman, Mr. W. Colthup, ofHarbledown, near Canterbury, to fill that office foranother twelve months. The Food Controller announces that as fromFebruary 17 next the price at which mola5.;es willbe sold to manufacturers and wholesale dealers forcattle feeding purposes will be £15 per ton extanks in bulk for home-mamufactured molasses, and£15 per ton in bulk fox imported. This repre-sents a reduction on the present prices of £5 per Photo by] Light Sass0x FowIm. [C. Reid. * 144 THE FA EMEU AND STOCKBREEDER January 27, 1919. Housing and Poultry Runs WHAT EXPERIENCE TEACHES It is strange that articles which deal withbreeds and systems of poultry keeping seem torouse the most interest in readers. I attach mostimportance to those on foods and daily manage-ment, and when I receive such a letter as I haveto-day I know that it is the mo6t important partof my work. I have for years closely followedthe advice given by you in the F. & S., with theresult that I have not lost 1 per cent, of mychickens from any form of illness for 1917 I had only two deaths, both dueto accidents, in over three hundred 1918 I reared every chicken hatched,and no hen hatched less than eleven,several as many as fifteen. I think it only fairto tell you this, for I attribute the general healthof my stock and my full egg baskets to the goodearly start my stock obtains through folluwingyour methods.* T
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