Colonial Game at Home.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 340, 15 June 1894, Page 3

Colonial Game at Home.

The consignment of fowls, ducks, teal, black ducks, and rabbits brought by the Paramatta and Cuzco have been marketed with very excellent re•alts (says a London correspondent). Three crateß of the Patamatta's fowls realised 3s 6d each, and a crate of ducks brought 3s 9d each. The black ducks realised Is 9d each, and the teal 9d. The Cuzco'a fowls have sold at 4s. and the ducks from 3s 3d to 4s 9d each. The rabbita have sold for Is 2d each for the best, while rough or inferior only fetched 9d or lOd each. English rabbits at this same time are only fetching 7i each for the rest. f ome of the birds (fowl* and ducks) are older than is altogether liked on this market. The eggs arrived in a fair condition, but were somewla 1 : withered inside. It i« doubtful if eggs can ever pay, but fowls and decks are likely to find a good market. It may be interesting to point out that if the fowls were first frozen separately, then wrapped in muslin and packed close together in crates so that they could not get out of place, a savin? of freight could be effected. The Russians freeze theirs first and then pack them tirfht in boxes, and so forward them to this country, and boxes holding six dozen are sometimes kept in cold stores here for over two months without anj damage arising from this long period of frott.