THE GOVERNMENT POULTRY EXPERT.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 10095, 22 July 1898, Page 2

THE GOVERNMENT POULTRY EXPERT.

TO THE _._• ITOR OF THS PRESS. Sir, —I regret that up country we have not such postal lacilities aa to allow mc to aus _ er more quickly my Wellington opponent, Air Lamb. Why Mr Hyde no. tne liberty to ill-treat the tanners aud lifts nob the power or courage to defend himself, is more than 1 can understand. If Mr Lamb reads the Canterbury pt.pers he would have seen a farmer's letter complaining of Mr ilydes conduct for impolitely noglec ting to give an object lesson on poulti-y rearing, lor wmoli every facility was offered, when he was in the district. What is the use then to write to tl_e Agricultural Department'/ Are these the courteous and pains ...king ways of the new poultry expert? He lost tuerc a good opportunity to show his skiil, it he uas any, i have not to defend the complainer, whom 1 do not know personally, he seems able to do it very well lumseli without help, buo his name, Edwin I.eiily, of Studhoime, struck mc, because being a School Committeeman myself 1 kept a letter of his to the I'ress, dated 17th October, 1896, giving a clever plan to teach rudiniental agriculture in our estate schools. Every country head teacher keeps a garden and some fowls, where object lesaons could be given once a year by competent men to our boys and girls, and parents too, ii desired. Such a scheme wouid be much cheaper and far more effective than the actual squandering of money on poultry. Our teacners would quickly learn how to tackle fowls, &c., and several experts could be dispensed with after. If Mr Hyde was an active rearer of poultry at Karori his partner must be as mucii ephemeral aa his poultry farm, which was cleared out after a few months in 1893, both partners only keeping small yards of fancy fowls, and afterwards one became a publican in Otogo •_nd the other, our genial Hyde, found it more profitable to deal witn the M.H.l..'s of the right colour, who are known to be tne best customers at iiis hairdi-esser's shop. MiLamb fails to answer any o£ my complaints against the Agricultural __*epa_*i____nt, and the above vouclied-for details will, I hope, render intending writers more circumspect than he was before challenging my statsinen. s. —Yours, &c., SUBSCRIBER.