WOMEN POULTRY FARMERS
Feminine efficiency was well demonstrated to Mr. W. Ley, one of 30 Victorian farmers who toured England and the Continent, when, near Aberdeen, he was shown a poultry farm covering 63 acres, entirely managed by women and girls. At the poultry farm Mr. Ley said there were 40,000 fowls, 37,000 of there were laying-hens which averaged 33S eggs each a year, or a grand total of more than 8,000,000 eggs annually. “And even with that number,” Mr. Ley said, “they have to import 1,000,000 eggs to supply the demand from their customers. The nine women and girls are experts at killing the fowls by a deft twist of the neck, and then they are put into an automatic machine which strips every feather oft the birds in a fraction of the time it takes by hand. They are not injured in any way by the machine. In all respects that poultry farm is a model of perfection, and it is splendidly laid out and managed.”
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6815, 19 January 1929, Page 12
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168WOMEN POULTRY FARMERS Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 6815, 19 January 1929, Page 12
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