LESS FOWLS AND MODE TURKEYS

Shannon News, 26 April 1927, Page 4

LESS FOWLS AND MODE TURKEYS

|VHAT THE CENSUS REVEALS. Volume 16 of the census of New' Zealand, 1826'. which deals exclusively with poultry, has been published.!Since 1921. when the previous-cen-sus was taken, there has been a decrease in poultry of ’209;864. This,, it' is said, may be partially accounted fdr by the rise in the price of fowlwbeat. ■" ipowls, duefis, geese and' turkey# number iii the* aggregate 3,781,145. Fowls account ■ for 3,308,384, ducks for 352,080; geese for 43(879-and-tur-keys for 76,852. ' Turkeys 1 are* the only birds that'show a numerical increase in the last five years. More than 50 per cent, of the birds areowned by people whose flocks number lefes than- fifty, andethe gathering of the figures for the census wa's no-easy task. It was done in’ conjunction ! with the collection of the" dwelling schedule, and in-this*way every bird,practically, was recorded. Dealingwlth - fowls alone,; the average flock., was 21.5 birds for New Zealand as awhole. In Otago and * Canterbury the average was higher;'it* ! was lowerin- Taranaki and Westland.