POULTRY LECTURE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 303, 17 May 1911, Page 7

POULTRY LECTURE.

("Cock-o'-the-North.")

I have advocated in the columns of the Taranaki Daily News the great' value of progress and co-operation in both poultry culture and in the sale ol our poultry products, and at last Taranaki farmers, suburbanites and poultry men are to have their chance. On the 19th inst. (Friday), in the Town Hall, Mr. Rutherford, one of the pioneers of the egg circle movement in the Dominion, will speak on this subject, and my sincere advice to all my readers is to go and hear him. Mr. Rutherford is not a man who ha 3 poultry talk and nothing else. He is a good shrewd, practical poultry man, who is doing his present work for the good of the industry, and not by any means for the sake of monetary gain for himself, for I happen to know positively that Mr. Rutherford is losing money every trip he takes on this business, as ho only receives his travelling expenses and no more. Willi the splendid lesson of what has been obtained by progress and combination by the dairy farmers of this province, it remains to be seen whether poultry keepers are as keen to advance as the dairy farmers were, or if they are content to stagnate. Remember Friday night, at 8 p.m. sharp, and roll up, or quit the game. Opportunity comes once to all, and it is coming on Friday night to Taranaki poultryroen if they are wide enough awake to grasp