THE POULTRY INDUSTRY

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21412, 2 March 1935, Page 22

THE POULTRY INDUSTRY

♦ —— LARGE SCALE METHODS IN AUSTRALIA IMPROVED FACILITIES FOR PRODUCTION A review of the work being done in the poultry industry in Australia was given by Mr J. Liggins, president of the Burwood branch of the New Zealand Poultry Producers' Federation, at a recent meeting of the branch. Mr Liggins has recently returned from Australia and he stated that he was struck with the advance that was being made there. Most of the methods employed were far in advance of those used in New Zealand and where activity in New Zealand was maim? confined to the light breeds, the Australian producers were handling heavy and light strains with equal success. The industry was being conducts on a much larger scale in Australia than in New Zealand, and because« the climatic conditions the birds were kept in much larger runs. . He visited the Hawkesbury Agrwutuval College State Farm, where mors than 7000 birds were kept, and tne* he considered the finest type of wm , in Australia. He was so impress with the quality there that he brougg back three cockerels to Burwood wp ™ne thing that he noticed wasjj ; inoculation of the birds to safeguara them against the various disease » •; they were prone to through tne treme climatic conditions, ne v« , farms that kept between 5000 and 6J» birds and each one had to be inflated. . c( . rtre a At the Egg Board's grading sot # Sydney there were more than girls employed in the busy-part 01 } export season. In Adelaide me was almost as big, and m onei » . they exported more than *Viean- ! dozen eggs. In Sydney an egg ■ ing machine was tested. *'£ ot were placed on trays whicn , through sand, but the duced was too great, a n f. were worn so thin that theu tf# ment refused to pass the eggs P Mr Liggins stated that the *g* incubators used in Australia superior to those in use m ofl land. The hatcnenes were u pro a very large scale. Manyoi ( prietors relied on purchasing v. , and the tendency now was , poorer type of chicken to' «* p life This was being reflected in of the chickens, in ** *f oW ls. 0* tivity and in the Me of the»w man he knew hatched 250,uw t aIL and did not possess any poaHry He considered that thisi m gQrt raising chickens f™ m ** y de , stock would soon be very a , to the industry in Austrau* i

A Victorian Farm Among the places to Jj a special visit was the »n» Vic toriaCarter b™th e " '3** «jg This was an amwaS £" nly W«g White Leghorns were the £ p kept, and there was a f° c * eie M& layers. All the buildmgsw and tramlines ran between u to carry the: food One o h , K bators held 55,000 eg=s w ens were kept int pens of i held and five tons °f meat were gj Six butchers were kepi w ?ound and the freezer on would hold as many as ns ? g and 800 bullocks. his address with a brw ,;, of the Royal Show at 03