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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVII, Issue 14, 6 October 1906, Page 34

The first annual report of the Poultry Institute of Ontario discusses matters of great interest to all poultry-breeders, and describes a poultry-farm which pays —that of Lakewood, in Bunsville, New Jersey— : run on thorough business lines by Mr. A. G. Brown, the profit last year being one thousand four hundred pounds. The farm of about sixty acres of level, sandy soil, is covered with small oak and pine woods, and there are about five miles of wire fence around it. White Leghorns, Barred Rocks, and white Wyamlottes are in evidence, and the yield o( eggs and'chickens is sat The pens and laying-houses are of tlie most approved kind, and care is taken to keep these dry. clean, and warm. The eggs are placed in pasteboard boxes holding a .dozen, and sold in winter to a. dealer at forty-seven cents a dozen, and in summer at thirty-two cents. We learn from the same source that there are three hundred and sixty incubators on the premises, and that altogether there are one' thousand three hundred makers of iricubators in the United States, turning out two hundred and forty thousand a year, so that hens may by-and-hy retire from thi» part of the business if the use of these continues to increase.