THE FARM.

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13448, 2 June 1914, Page 2

THE FARM.

PORTABLE POULTRY FARM.

It has been declared that while- tho value of co-operation has been slow to be grasped by farmers in all countries, tho money spent'in poultry instruction and organisation in Ireland has been amply repaid by the splendid development of the poultry industry in that country. Take tho poultry education methods in vogue in one district, that of Tyrone. In addition to winter lectures by special instructors, the county maintains a travelling caravan containing sectional fowl and duck houses, incubators, hot and cool brooders, fattening pens and cramming machines, together with tho appliances needed for trussing fowls and for grading, packing, and testing eggs. .In addition, to ' this stock live birds are carried— stock fowls and ducks, running chickens, and fowls lor fattening. The portable farm moves from village to village, and farmers are then invited to lend a field for a month or less; tho buildingvs are set up, the fowls placed therein, and the whole apparatus is ready for tho inspection of the people in the neighbouring district. Practical demonstrations and popular lectures are given during the evening in a barn lent by some other farmer, and tho population of the villages for miles around flock in force to hear them. This movable farm travels about for the greater part of tho year, and the good work accomplished by its aid is incalculable..