Instruction in Poultry-keeping.

New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume II, Issue 2, 15 February 1911, Page 115

Instruction in Poultry-keeping.

Conditions under which Students are received at the Government Poultry-stations. The poultry-stations are at Ruakura, near Auckland ; Moumahaki. near Waverley ; Burnham, near Christchurch ; and Milton, near Dunedin. A limited number of students are received and instructed under the following conditions : (1.) They must pay their own travelling-expenses. (2.) At Moumahaki board and sleeping-accommodation are available at the Government Experimental Farm, at about 12s. per week ; students must, however, supply their own blankets. At Ruakura, Burnham, and Milton no Government accommodation is available, but board and lodging may be obtained privately within a convenient distance. (3.) Students are expected to stay at least six weeks at the poultrystation. (4.) They receive no wages, but must do such work in connection with poultry as the manager of the station may require of them. It should be borne in mind that a few weeks spent on a Government poultry-farm will not make a student capable of managing a large plant, but it will be the means of enabling him to avoid many of the mistakes made by beginners..