A NEW MONEY-MAKING HOBBY

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 9 December 1915, Page 2

A NEW MONEY-MAKING HOBBY

THE breeding of pigeons as' a tabled delicacy and an item of invalid diet is the . " commg industry in Australia, declares * * W A. Somerset -in an illustrated article in the December issue of: "Life," eoJsitled "Is there money, in Pigeons?'^^^|fe^#^ Gaze, the well-known actor, who breeds^W Pigepns as something more than a mere hobby, had. no hesitation in replying yes" to. the query. He ;himself has orders for fifty,pair of squabs per week a^s^and^he believes that, with very little trouble, a demand for 500 pairs a week could be discovered in Melbourne' alone, and similarly in all the big cities. The article shows that, as compared with poultry-farming, pigeon-raising is child's " Play, and in capital outlay, space, labour and profit everything is in favour of the latter. The directions given in " Life "' ' .or breeding, feeding, aiid marketing the birds are full and clear, and are illustrated with numerous photographs by the writer. This article is one of the • - many excellent features in the December issue of this magazine, which so fully lives up to its title. Dr. Fitchett, as usual, gives a masterly, and picturesque review of the month's war, and the departments cover, as usual, a vast area of subjects "Life" is so l d locally for 6d. " T T» SfJ c' a3s P^tal note sent to Lite, 3/6 Swanson Street, Melbourne, will bring it by post for six months