EGG- FARMERS COMBINE.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 169, 10 April 1908, Page 2

EGG- FARMERS COMBINE.

TRADING ASSOCIATION FORMED. ; " A Christchurch Press Association message says that at a meeting of poultry-raisers held yesterday afternoon, it was: decided to form an association,~to bo called the ; Canterbury. Egg and Poultry_ Co-operative Association, to deal iri marketing eggs and poultry, and ill all supplies in connection with the poultry industry.. ■ ~'. i '••• Our Manawatu correspondent says that, a ' farmer in Manawatu,- who keens a. poultry > farm in connection with his other farm-inv • dustries,, stated that for the' past two,.years. < lie has been forwarding consignments .of poultry direct to Wellington customers,: i'and 1 •. he finds that ho derives' more profit by adopt.ing this coarse: The. poultry,, he states, a'roA' mixed breeds, fed on farm products;, inclusivo of boiled ■ potatoes and a . When aro ready for. the marketj he puts .tliem, inio boxes, and : consigns;, direct • to customers in Wcllington. lie states 'that,. last year his income was supplemented by. ■nearly £70,,' an d, this' season. ; he : hopes to . i, double that amount;