CORRESPONDENCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 159, 7 June 1937, Page 12

CORRESPONDENCE.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —I feel very grateful to “Satisfied” for so easily solving the living and rent problem. It reminds me of a friend wlio fold me some 12 months ago that he was going in for a poultry farm. I met him a few months later and asked him how the poultry farm was going. He told me he had figured it out that if he bought 100 hens to start, and each laid 200 eggs a year, with the chickens 50-50 pullets and cockerels, at the end of five years be would have enough hens to roost on every branch on every tree from the North Cape to the Bluff; in other words, as numerous as the white butterfly on a warm day. Only, he said, we would have the hens with us in the cold weather as well as in the warm, so sooner than saddle New Zealand with such a calamity he would call the matter off and not start the poultry farm. The same thing applies to “Satisfied’s” scheme. If we can get all that fruit and those vegetables, with products from cow ■farming, on: one-third of an acre (two sections), and everyone started the same, some even on a larger scale, the results would be appalling. I am not sure if “Satisfied” mentioned a few bees, but if we had a few, truly then would the land be flowing with milk and honey. If we can persuade our friend of the poultry farm scheme to carry on we would surely then be living in the midst of plenty. But now that “Satisfied” has made his scheme public everyone will start and spoil the whole tiling. Once again there is a fly in the ointment.—l am, etc. SQUABE DEAL. This correspondence is closed.