POULTRY KEEPING AND EXPORT.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 87, 2 May 1901, Page 2

POULTRY KEEPING AND EXPORT.

For some time pist tho Government Poultry Expert (Mr. Hyde) has been actively eng iged in efforts to foster aact encourage thp very profitable induo'ry of re.iring poultry for rxport. The Government are fully alire to tbe importing of making the export trade in poultry ns tucaoss'ul aa that of dairying »ith which it is so clcsaly allied. At Home the farmers' wives and diugh-1 tars are vtry keen as to the profit ensuing from the feathered inhabitants of the farm yard. Owing to the climate,i ho fever, th <y mostly labour under the great disadvantage of being unable to rear young birds sufficiently rarly to ca'ch the market at its b s*. Tnis is jus*; whera the busire c s plays into the h irdi ( f rolon'al producri'j, and ersuresi an exce 'ent raturn for time, labour and 1 I'o >d expends d oti the birds. Up till caiiipa ativo'y recen ly tho question of laudius; poul 'y on (h i Horn* market in good condition h\d n"t b en solved. Now, however, that thcra is ro diffica'ty in tint direc'i"n, this profitable industry fh >uld j; cei 'e thit impetus 1 whicli it d>so'ves. An excellent opp>rtuni'y now p'wer,ts i *e'f fo;'0 tainiDg 1 eliable information, as M' 1 . Hyde has siring dtj 1 cture on tho subject at the farmers' Club on Fiiday, when here should be a very large attendee i.