Poultry in England.

Te Aroha News, Volume 64, Issue II, 23 August 1884, Page 5

Poultry in England.

TnK Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, in addrescing his tenants at Hawvirdcn, said : — "I will now take another case — that of eggs ; tluit is a very good illustration, for it is in eveiy body's* power to raise poultry, and, if I may say .so, grow eggs In 1855, though that uas a time -when treedom of tiade had advanced laigely in the country, and when there was, consequently, a very good increase in the consumption of good tood by the people, 100,000,000 eggs were imported irom abroad, A\hich represented. a consumption of an average of 3$ foreign egg^ to every man, woman, and child. You might have said, if asked to send eggs : ' Oli, no ; theic are already plenty, or more than enough in the market ' But that is not tho fact, for in ISBO the import had increased to 750,000,000 eggs from foreign countries. It is hardly credible, so vast and so multiplied is the demand for these little but veiy useful commodities, every one of them helping to feed somebody. The consumption per head has increased fiom.Sl to no fewer than '.lljh eggs. That illiihtiatcft -what I have said to you about the enoimous, insatiable capacity of the human stomach. Depend upon it, that if it be in your power to turn your attention — L don't say at iiist on a veiy large scale, but on a moderate seale — to tho production of those ai tides which are of the nature ot comforts, or even comparative luxuries, for popular consumption, you will find that the market a\ ill gradually open and adjust it sell for their reception. 1 think the figures T have quoted aie a distinct proof of the truth and icality ot what I have said. — J<j))ijlt\h I/up Stock Journal.