A WORD ON PAYABLE POULTRY.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 534, 15 June 1909, Page 5

A WORD ON PAYABLE POULTRY.

BY THE COVERNMEMT EXPERT. WILL TAKE UP THE LINE HIMSELF. (BI TELEBHIPH—epBCUI COBEKSPONDKJT.) Chrfstchurch, June 14. Speaking at the Ashbnrton Winter Show, Mr. D. Hyde, Government poultry expert, announced his impending retirement from that position, he. being one of the victims of the Government retrenchment policy. Mr. Hyde said that he would hnve liked to have been another two or three years in harness. In order to show further what could be done, and that poultry-raising could be maile to pay, it was his intention to start a poultry farm on his own account, and ho hoped to demonstrate that he had not been preaching to the country what he was not' prepared to tackle and practise himself. During the past five years, more had been accomplished m the direction of putting the poultry industry on a satisfactory footing than had been done during the previous fifty years, and Now Zealand could now give many other parts of the world a lead. The value of the poultry industry to this country was now much greater than many people were aware of, and was quite double the valuo of the fruit industry. Fancy' breodinc would not make a man financially, but, on the utility side, he had no doubt whatever that the industry could be made to pay. ■ Mr. Hyde quoted the instance of a Wellington ponltry farmer who was carrying on the industry on less than fivo acres of land, and yet, last year, he made a clear profit of £350. That man had been a dairyman, but had given up that occupation in favour of ponltry farming, and he had found that the lattor industry paid /him best. > Mr. Hyde added that one unsatisfactory featuro in the past, in connection, with the Government poultry farms, had been the erection of buildings which far too costly n nature. This drawback would be remedied in future. Ho had, at the show, a model of a new and 'improved house, to, accommodate forty birds, which could be erected at a cost of not more than £3 Ss.,-as compared with houses: which had been erected in the past at a cost of something like £40. The new model Kouse was in every way superior to the,more costly structure. .'