The Chronicle. PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN. MONDAY FEBRUARY 3, 1913. PROGRESS OF THE POULTRY INDUSTRY.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 3 February 1913, Page 2

The Chronicle. PUBLISHED DAILY LEVIN. MONDAY FEBRUARY 3, 1913. PROGRESS OF THE POULTRY INDUSTRY.

KitoM various 'signs and lessons it becomes increasingly evident that, i prosperous future is before !.!);> poultry industry ol' New Zealand. Like tlic butter industry in ihw isliands, tlio poultry industry had a long struggle with adversity, but now it seems to lie close ii[)ou the time of assured prosperity, and chiefly by reason of the holp r iil guidance and business assistant given by tlio State Agricultural Department. Possibly there will be a lew more "downs." before the |>e immanent upward tt'nck shows clear, but faint-hoartedness to-day is 'ess justifiable than it, was in times bygone. Tim trial shipments of eggs to the Vancouver markets have shown a profitable and insatiable out. let for New Zealand's surplus >nmmer ojr.es. Now comes news of an even greater profitable market. Details are given in n letter from (he High Commissioner for New Zealand, dated London. November IGt.li. Tn it the ox-Promior writes:— "By the s.s. "Tuna kin a." which docked r\ 4 the beginning of the week, there, arrived a small shipment of New Zealand eggs, and. knowing the interest taken in the growth of the poultry industry of the Dominion, T have obtained a few particulars of the consignment from Messrs If. A. Lane and Co., the Tooley-street House, which Inns undertaken the disposal of the consignment. The parcel consisted of five quarter-cases, each containg three long-hundreds, 'he shippers being Messrs Reilly, Scott, and Gill, of Diuiodin. The wood of the cases is still thought to be rathei thick, hut on tlio whole the present .shipment is a great improvement n the last. The paoking. also, is better, although there is yet some improvement to he inn do. Cardboard fillers have hoen used on this to-a-sion. and these have oiuibled the eggs to .arrive in a much better condition than did last year's parcel. Out of a total of 1800 eggy, only ISO wvve broken, hut the broken ones were the cause of another 209 bad eggs. Owing to the long time taken on the voyage, the moisture whic'i is sucked up by the cardboard through the damage:! package affects the surrounding eggs. No preparation whatever had been used oh the .shells, and, taking all things into consideration. Messrs Lane consider it is a great success to be able to land New Zealand eggs in London > the sound condition in which the ship nieiit came to hand. An regards the quality, the eggs are very rich, ive'l selected, an dof good size and colour, and flll these points arc taken careful note of by London buyers. The agents boiled some and. state that they cooked splendidly—nearly as well as the English new-laid. The milky white of the, latter was present in the New Zeabmd eggs, ami the importers consider that ;f the right package can he found which will enable them to arrive in London in a sound condition there is a- big future for the egg trade of the Dominion. On the voyage Home, by the way, they were carried in the eCol chamber at a temperature of 45 degrees. At the time of my enquiries Messrs Lane were holding out for a price, ami I am now advised that they obtained it. the satisfactory figure of 13s per 120, net London, being realised. They tell- me thai; the eggs are going up to thp We*t

End, but whether or not they will be sold as "Now Zealand" cannot be ascertained. Kor your information I enclose herewith « copy of a roport on the shipments which the agents are sending to New Zealand Press representatives in London. am] which will doubtless appear in due course in various newspapers in the Dominion." An important point, in regard to the .shipment is that 'on th<-> present occasion no preservative of any kind was used, thus demonstrating th? correctness of Messrs Lane's conte.ition. As to the price realised — close lip-in Is -Id per dozen net--comment is unnecessary.