POULTRY FARMS FOR SERVICEMEN

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24909, 24 June 1946, Page 6

POULTRY FARMS FOR SERVICEMEN

SCARCITY OF FOOD The Rehabilitation Board recently reaffirmed a previous decision that loans to former servicemen wishing to establish themselves in the poultry industry should in the meantime be confined to existing ecomonic runs. In view of the difficult feed supply position over the last few years the Wheat and Flour Controller, in a letter to the board, had emphasised the necessity of reducing poultry flocks. It was estimated that, owing to the decision to raise the extraction of flour to 80 per cent., the quantity of pollard to be made available would be some 13,000 tons less than in former years. In these circumstances supplies that might be made available to new entrants into the industry could be arranged only at the expense of those already established. The board decided to inform the Wheat and Flour Controller of its attitude and explain to him the type of man already assisted, with a request for special consideration to be afforded in those cases where it had been necessary for existing farmers to increase their flocks to meet their commitments.