Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1898. Home Industries.

Manawatu Herald, 30 July 1898, Page 2

Manawatu Herald. SATURDAY, JULY 30, 1898. Home Industries.

The saving in little thing-) is that which makes the profit, and every hous -holder by showing an interest in the homeliness of country lite could do a deal towards fulfilling the duty which the Irishman's friend, the pig, doe?, that of paying the rent. All the great Home industries have arisen from small beginning?, and so must we act here. No buai ness can be built up in a day, for, there is the one chief factor in success in everything, first to be ob tamed, a knowledge of the business one enters into. Spring is soon coming and the time for hatching out a reasonable number of poultry. To every residence there should be poultry of some sort, as not only do they gather up the crumbs which fall from the family table, but they are excellent prospectors for worms, slugs and other hindrances lo gardeners, but which, put through a chicken-mill turn into excellent flesh for food. Fowls need not be a nuisance to the garden, prudently kept, but if space actually forbade the lively rooster with his equally alert hen to be restrained fittingly so as to preserve the equanimity of the modern Adam, then unquestionable ducks would fill the room. Eggs are always a saleable article when produced in excess and provide a pleasant change ot diet to the family of the rearer, and the tending of poultry is particularly a woman's work. We have heard a complaint of the erring conduct of there feathered biped?, how when other means for annoyance has failed them, they have chosen to lay down and die. It is imagined that this is done from pure cussedness, but we much expect the result has been caused, as so much illness is caused in the human family, from defective habi tatione. The congregating of num bers of people, animals, or poultry, in one small place for too long a time invariably leads to the outbreak of disease, and thus to get the maxi mum of profit from your poultry the best attention must be given to them. From grounds whioh we have given it becomes evident that an old established hen roost is to be avoided a? a healthy person would avoid th j plague, and the cure for such a state of nffxirs is to provide a small yard and moveable house for the fowls. These can be easily and oheaply made, and the fowls when confined, would be on constantly fresh ground which would re act on their health and egg-producing power. We should like to see sufficient interest taken in this matter so that a meeting could be arranged and the start made of what would in a few years time develope into a very valuable in dustry. There would be such a question as to the best kinds of poultry to rear, the purchase of eggs, the economical hatching of them, I and the apportioning out of the little downy ones amongst foster-mothers. Then would come the time when the necessary man of the scheme • would appear upon the scene, the purchaser of the birds when from six to seven months old, who would take them to his establishment to- fatten, and kill, and export. All the business is as simple as A B 0 if undertaken in conjunction with one another, and so apportioned that each person has that share in the raising of poultry for market that they are best circumstanced to carry out. The business is an immense one, as we hare before brought under the notice of our readers, in Sussex, and we are certain can be made the same here, after we have all acquired the preliminary knowledge, and that is only to be gained by personal

experience. The climate and soil are most suitable ; the conveniences for quick despatch to any market cnnnot be bettered ; and it only w-tntg all to be interested in the m utar to launch ug on the way to th.j profitable employment of the y unger members of our family. The best part of thia suggested cooperation lies in the fact that it can be put almost into instant execution and at no further outlay than hatching eggs in the risky fashion by a h n, costs now, indeed not so much, a; the percentage of losses by an incubator is smaller than by a hen, who is so susceptible to temper when rudely interrupted.