Farm Notes.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4432, 6 July 1909, Page 4

Farm Notes.

WILL POULTRY FARMING PAY? If anyone in New Zealand is able to answer that' question it should be Mr D. D. Hyde, who on his visits to Thames has 'afforded fanciers and the public mujh interesting information. He has been 'retrenched, bub he thought he would have liked another two years in harness in brder to show further what could le done, and that poultry raising could be made to pay. It was his intention to start a prmlti y farm on his own account, and he hoped to demonstrate that he had not been preaching to the country what .he wn 8 not prenared to tackle and practise himself. During the past five y >ars mote bad been accomplished in the direction of putting the poultry industry O i a satisfactory fooling than had been done during the previous fifty years, and New Zealand could now give mary ether pufci of tie world a lead. The value of the poultry industry to this country was how much greater than many people 1 were aware of, and was quite double the value of the fruit industry. Fancv breeding would pot make a man financially, but, on the utility side he had no doubt whatever that the industry could be made to pay. Mr Hyde quoted the instance of a Welling-, tompoultry farmer who was carrying on the industry on less than five acres of land. and yet, last year, he made a .clear profit of £350. The man had been a dairyman, but had given up the occupation in favour of poultry farming, and he Rad found that the latter industry paid him best. Mr Hyde added that one unsatisfactory feature in the, past, in connection with the Government poultry farms, had been the erection of buildings which were of far too costly a nature. He had, at the show, a model of a new and improved house to accommodate forty birds, which could be erected at a co3t of not more than £3 55., ns compared with the houses which had been erected in the past at a cost of something like £4O. The new model house was in every way superior to the more costly structure.