EMUS FOR RUSSIA
HITCH IN THE/SCHEME INCUBATORS NECESSARY LONDON, Sept. 7 Experiments in the Soviet's scheme to import 1000 pairs of emus from Australia, each of which should provide 15 young annually, as a means of solving the meat problem, have revealed an unexpected. difficulty, reports the Riga correspondent of the Times. They show that iii Russia the female emu lays 20 eggs annually. But even the Soviet cannot compel the male, who incubates them, to hatch more than 10 eggs. Experts, therefore, are constructing special incubators to deal with the surplus. <■
The Maikop kangaroo farm is reported ,to be "advancing in leaps and bounds," but the rabbit front has sustained reverses, because those animals fail/to/increase in accordance with ex-, pectations. It is hoped that the rabbit scheme will improve when the establishment of the Australian fauna supplies provide }a favourable background.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXX, Issue 21596, 14 September 1933, Page 10
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