POULTRY FARMING.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 136099, 25 April 1908, Page 3

POULTRY FARMING.

— c -i TO THE EDITOR OF "THE PRESS." , Sir,—l think I ought to question th« truth of a statement in your Monday's i«-uo on the poultry industry, although it will not benefit mc dirrotiy to <Ib so. You say that- poultry fanning, per ??. 'is a poor way of making money," rr.d will not- pay, and tiha.t iv is 'bctoor as a "sidj lino." I have found tho opposite to true. Poultry farming by itself can b« mado to p.iy, and poultry a.5 a sido lino deer*. not jay. Far:v.<Ti keep :o\vl; partiv r> look "at and sliil n;cr.> for the fresh c?<r>. and In d> for thy ta.Hu that they oan get or the- r,!a<o. Tl:? ogg -> ilxy dJ >:oj w.itU .:re cither soid to a'trnvelhr, packed ia loxes and sont- to a grocer, or prr■.•.μ-vcs.;. They nro .cenorally pitherc;! in from hojges. or anywhere, they trust tlit egos arc all right, and iboy often are. 1 kopt fowls in with l'.'ixid farming for n.i>rp than twenty years. They never p-.r-.l in the way ci making iiMncy onl ci ih'-n:. Tlicy cor.sujjicd two or tli recti mi a as much value r.5 they pr<.y.!-:it".>..l. T!)i> rcncci, of co:ir.;i\ wr.s ths*.t tlioy wr" a sicU> lino and troatod -as siu'ii. Ti-.orr« i- l'othing thst if. nv.-ro dopi-mloiu on ilvo niancftC'inont th:m i>oultry. for sv.rccss. A\nwt every thing dcpoVd* on th> in charge oi tlicin. Titer- is liit.!« ];:;-k alvc-uc it. The po<\i wife often sees It; the fowl? aril reduces tho jrroerrs account vny considorablv, but- the main idea, is r.ot whether they pay with fnrni-ers as a rule. 1 am lircvi of tlio question, ''Da fowls piy? ,, My r:-ply is. I can pel nwro profit from lions (piillote)—bird for eggs don't forgot than wo used to average from' shoep per head ten years sgo. The rest of the artirlo i? % I am afraid, too true —Your-*, etc.. •T. C. WADY.