GOVERNMENT POULTRY FARMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13918, 27 November 1908, Page 3

GOVERNMENT POULTRY FARMS.

. . .z - • 4 Sir,—l : notiee , in, your issue -of the 12t4i ,-•" Jinst. a letter from A. A Sauford re " the \ above, and I think it only fair ,to give the '•" Government credit for the "manner in' wLioS* :'*' they have ' taken up the, poultry business. * " These farms have undertaken a .let, o£ <««":« *•;. perimental work, which no ordinary person A! could afford ; but the lessons that have been learned have been of value to Vi-any a m! i" * - who couldnot experiment, and who 'hasv-i; made success of 1 what* would have been - % t failure to him 1 without '$ the information h»&& has gained. I think-, the country has bv far. 1 recoup the | Govermnerit floss by the benei fits | small poultry-farmers have received.' •::; The; p nce of good been brought within the reach ;of al|, -vhereas beforehand ■.' ajsmaU- farmer had Ao : chance of baying -'< from a . breeder. - Mr. Sanford porhaps thiiiks that there is" no' morft t(f learn in retiring poultry than. there is in catching fish. If ntr," h^Cxt^- m , ak , fe .J" a poultry he : i might, think different.. I myself, " and v I know many othera, have received great I help, and have been saved severe-losses by tlie in for- - mat ion received from Ithe Government »paul* ■; try farms and the Government poultry ox- I p«ts./, 1 , Mjavnx : Te Mahoe, Mauku. | ' ' * *