SOVIET GOES IN FOR EMU CULTURE
KANGAROO FARM DOING WELL RIGA, Aug. 9. —A one-year plan for emu culture lias been arranged by the Central Zoological Department ui Moscow. Six emus, imported i'rem Australia, are to lay UO eggs in 1!)32, which will be hatched in tne department's speci. ally-invented emu incubator, produc. ing 30 "emulets." The authorities calculate that, un til the birds are acclimatised, 50 per cent, of the eggs will be addled. The' Soviet Government recently instructed tne department to intro. *»uce Australian fauna on. aj large scale. Experiments have shown that emus breed and thrive around Moscow. .■ The ' kangaroo farm at Alaikep, in .South'--Russia, which was founded in January with 200 kangaroos, is giving promising results.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 22, 18 August 1932, Page 5
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