POULTRY INDUSTRY.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1708, 27 March 1913, Page 8

POULTRY INDUSTRY.

(By Telegraph.—Special Correspondent.) Auckland, March 26. The value o£,,the poultry industry to New Zealand was stated at yesterday's conference of poultrymen to bo £2,000,1)00 : per annuin, this sum changing hauds for products, produce, and materials in order trf.keep the industry going. The average ; price of eggs, and table poultry was fully 50 per cent, higher than it was 10 years :ago. Five yeiifs ago they coukl count on -one.hand; the number of persons engaged 'in poultry farming for a living. Now they could be numbered by the score. Farmers too were giving poultry more attention since they were realising that ' the high prices received for eggs and table birds made the keeping of poultry a valuable adjunct, to farm pursuits. A few "years a?o a hen which laid 200 eggS' in 12 months was. regarded as a phenomenon, but now the Dominion Has hoiis which can hold their own wifli comers from "all parts of the world, and which can lay as many us 280 eggs a year. During the last year the Poultry Association was largely instrumental in getting the Government to make a trial shipment of eggs to Vancouver with ft viewto testing the export trade. Although no great profits were made, the shipment clearly demonstrated that great possibilities lay in that direction, and during tlio nest year further experiments are to be made witli a view to building up a permanent ami remunerative trade in the export of poultry and eggs.

"Trifles make perfection" quoth an old ■sago. Consider tha trifling—though wonderful improvement in cheese Vats as exomplilied in the' famous "Victor" Vats. Many Factory Managers have already realised tho profit-building possibilities of "Victor" Vats, and have installed them accordingly- 'Tis tho sloping bottom that counts! Full particulars from Albert J. Parton, Plumber, Carterton—Advt,