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The proposed poultry association for Now.. Zealand to foster tho poultry business, as a branch of our cominercu suggests an inquiry as to tho amount of tho Svorld's lirado in poultry .commodities. We, can scarcely bo said yet to be exporting either ejgs or chickens ; but, .nevertheless, 111 the creation of utility, strains, tho poultry industry,is ahead of tho dairy industry. Wo have egg-laying competitions nil over tho country, .but wo have no-milk-yield competitions, oxccpt an applied, at our shows, to solitary animals. Progress ...also can bo more rapid in the improvement oF fowls than in,tho improvement of ccv.-a, so that tho great success 'of tho dairy industry ought to encourage poultry peoplo in viev. of their greater advania,n;es. Hitherto we have not exported £501) worth of erjgs per annum —not one-tenth tho value. of tho exported rabbit skins—yet Britain buys annually over £7,000,000 worth. London alono .ate 750,000,000 of eggs last year,' besides 15,000,000 tons of poultry. Thfro is a good opportunity for New Zealand poultry-keepers to build themselves up or. tho remunerative local demands till they reach exportins dimensions, and make a bid for Britain's £7,000,000 order.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 10, 7 October 1907, Page 2
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193SHALL WE CHARE THIS? Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 10, 7 October 1907, Page 2
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