POULTRY INSTRUCTION.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10130, 2 December 1910, Page 4

POULTRY INSTRUCTION.

The correspondent who, in this issue, traverses the attitude of the Age in respect to the poultry instructor and the poultry industry, will bo interested to learn that the Director of the Live Stock and Meat Division of the Department of Agriculture endcrses the opinions expressed by this paper in regard to the/industry being unprofitable, excepting as an adjunct to the farm. In his report for 1910, which is just to hand, the Director says:—"At the present time poultry"farming, as a ir.eans of earning a "livelihood, ewrmot be said to be a "successful industry, generally \ "speaking Ir± i\ew Zea- [ "land it should bo a profitable adj "junct to ordinary farming operar I "tions, especially as the work conI "nected with it can quite well be I "carried out by the wives and daughters of farmers." The Director indicates that the work of the poultry instructor will be specially devoted to bringing about an improvement in the conditions in which agricultural farmers send their table-birds to market. If the instructor had been devoting his attention to this work, instead of to that which his own chief admits to be unsuccessful, I there would have been no ground for 1 complaint.