POULTRY REARING AS A BRANCH OF FARMING

New Zealand Mail, 22 January 1902, Page 55

POULTRY REARING AS A BRANCH OF FARMING

A meeting of the .boroughbridge Agricultural Society was held on October sth. Mr. Miles Stapylton introduced a discussion on the subject of “Poultry Hearing as a Branch of Banning." Bor many years poultiy breeding had, he pointed out, been a great industry in France. In 1856 the value of the poultry produced in that country was .£12,775,489, whiile in Great Britain the amount consumed amounted to .£11,000,000, of which .£4,608,608 was imported from France, Russia, Italy, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Canada, and other countries. If it bald to send eggs 2000 or 3000 miles over land and sea, surely it could pay us to cultivate that industry at homo. Although attention to poultry had greatly increased in England during recent years, we were still much behind other countries. Mr. C. VV. Clarke thought there was a good livelihood to he made out of poultry if only people would take it up. He himself sent between 300 and 400 eggs to market each week, and found the industry paid. Eggs should be sent to market clean and in an attractive condition. Mr. Green, jun., speaking from the success that had attended his efforts on a small scale, believed that the results would be correspondingly gratifying on a greater basis. Mr. F. -W. blingsby doubted whether poultiy farms pure and simple would pay. That it was a valuable adjunct to farming, however, no one could deny. The use of incubators was to be encouraged. Purity of breed was most essential, for with mixed breeds eggs of all sorts and sizes were placed on the market, whereas if fanners tried to keep their breeds pure the result would be more satisfactory. The chairman stated that Mrs. Lawson, who had taken a great interest in dairying, intended to form at Aldborough a branch of the National Poultry Association. It was, he thought, a great mistake to keep poultry on grass land. The farmers of Normandy, who were, perhaps, the best poultry raisers in the world, kept poultry about their homesteads. In view of all the eggs that were imported from abroad, there was clearly money to bo made out of poultry rearing, and he was glad that English fanners were taking more interest in it than they used to do.—“ Yorkshire Post."