POULTRY WHEAT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17346, 29 September 1924, Page 7

POULTRY WHEAT.

Sir, --The Hei Hei settlers are not the only people who are feeling the high price of wheat in New Zealand, as compared with the price in Australia and Canada. The number of poultrymen who have sold out during the last few weeks shows that poultry-keeping in New Zealand will soon lie a declining industry. It would have been very much beter for wheat growers if poultry men had been allowed to increase instead of decrease. "What with tbe imported egg and the high wheat prices, the Jien is quickly and surely being killed that would have laid the “golden egg” for all concerned. The wheat-grower will now have the chance of trying “the world's parity” prices in the London market, against the cheap and good Canadian and Australian wheat. There are thousands of English returned soldiers whom Mr Lloyd George has settled on poultry farms, and they will he glad to buy cheap New Zealand wheat. Meanwhile, the more enterprising of the New Zealand poultrymen, the young fellows, are going to start again in Canada and Australia, where they can get plenty of wheat, oats and maize at their very doors, amd where they can export equally well either to London. New Y’ork or Now Zealand, according to the markets and the season*'. The dry climate of Australia is ideal for every kind of feathered fowl, without half the expense of land, feed and buildings. In New Zealand, according to recent reports, eggs are not ‘imported into Australia. The great variety of cheap Jped that can be grown in Australia is also a great attraction. “The i vine pen needs variety—but seldom cTets it in Now Zealand.”—l am. etc., g G. THOMPSON. Hornby.