NEW BOOKS

New Zealand Tablet, 22 October 1908, Page 33

NEW BOOKS

We need not have the memory of the oldest inhabitant to remember the time when the exports of New Zealand consisted mainly of corn, wool, and meat. Even until late years buttermaking was carried on in a spasmodic manner, and the good housewife had some difficulty in disposing of the product of hci dairy in the local market. Thanks to ihe advance of science and improved methods in manufacture, New Zeoland butter now ranks amongst the best imported into Great Britain. Another industry which has come to the front of late years ;s; s poultry-raising. Here again science has stepped in, and has turned what .was almost a waste product into a profitable source of revenue. The mongrels of the faimyard have been replaced by recognised profitable strains, and by means of the freezing chamber we have been able to send our dead poultry to the English n arket, whilst the cool chamber has enabled us to keep eggs for any length of time at a small cost. If he is a benefactor of humanity who makes two blades of grass grow where one gre\V before, how much mor * is he who tells how to get a fowl to lay as many eggs as thro 3 laid before, at a third of the tost? SiKh is the result of the teaching of practical poultry-raising by experts An^aid to tho.su engaged in this industry, Utility Pnitlhy fanning, has just been issued by Messrs. Whitcombe and To.ubs. Christchurch. Iho work is by F E. A. Gordon, and has been revised and editvd by Mr. J. B. Merreft, editor of the New Zealand Poultry Jouiiuil. It is a vrrj comprehensive work, and le.ivts no aspect of the subject untouched. It will be found extremely useful both to th' J man who keeps poultry to supply his own household and to the man who makes a livelihood from his ]. oultry farm The published price of the book is 5s

In adversity a man has opportunities of studying the anatomy of the backs of his acquaintances ; in prosperity^ he sees only their fronts. For a full view of life, then, a man should have days of pinching and days of plenty.