CENTENARY CHICKENS
UNMINDFUL OF TOMORROW
Never was a Christmas so devastating to the poultry world as the Melbourne Centenary celebrations promise to be. With less than two weeks remaining before the Duke of Gloucester states "The Argus," poultryfraisers are. going the rounds of the pens, placing lingering fingers on the crops of the chickens, estimating to a nicety where a little more mash, a little more green food, a little more meat meal, will bring the young flesh into perfect condition for the banquets that will follow October 18. The "Argus" proceeded:—"The Victorian Railways Department has a poultry farm of its own at Noble Park, and the manager has his eye on just the right birds for the mealj on the Royal train. His is a small business compared with some. The huge establishment of Messrs. Carter Brothers at Werribee has between 15,000 and in.OOO chickens that will be ready to fill orders from one firm of suppliers alone.
"The incubators are ready for another batch, to the order of the same firm, to keep the supply going over the Cup period. That will account for 20,000 more chickens. Most of these "will go to hotels, where 'full houses' will be supplemented at meal times by the guests of the boarders. "Turkeys are not so obliging as the common fowls. Their hatching season is strictly limited, and it has almost ended. Even so, one raiser in Riverina has produced 1500 turkeys for the Centenary—they are in the freezingchamber, along with partridge, pheasants, snipe, grouse, and guinea-fowl imported from Britain. Many of the Southern Riverinn farmers have produced 300 to 500 turkeys each this season, some for current use and others for the coming festivities.
"It is estimated that the Melbourne Cup race in normal years is the cause of a massacre of poultry equivalent to six times the normal weekly demand. Poultry suppliers and hotel-keepers say they believe that the demand this year will be four times that of a normal Melbourne Cup season, and that it will continue beyond the racing season, through November to the, Eucharistic Congress in December, past Christmas, and "into 1P35.
"Meanwhile half a million pampered chickens, unmindful of the morrow, are having the time of their young lives."
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 90, 13 October 1934, Page 14
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374CENTENARY CHICKENS Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 90, 13 October 1934, Page 14
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