Feb. 3, 1908. J Agricultural Gazette of N.S.JF. 147 



Fig. 2. — Big responsibilities. 



Couceruiiig tlie fiuit-f.ri'ower coining, staying, and prospering, it i- 

 very well known that wlietlier for the amount of cash and laljour lost in 

 the respective industries, or a putting of the abandoned orchards in 

 county Cumberland against the poultry farms which once were, fruit- 

 growing has suffered most. The proprietor of the j^oultry farm which 

 forms the subject of 

 this ))aper was a 

 practical market- 

 gardener and fiuit- 

 grower, with a few- 

 fowls as a side issue ; 

 the possibilities, how- 

 ever, for profit from 

 the latter were such 

 that there was a 

 gradual evolution 

 from cherries to 

 chickens, onions to 

 Oi'pingtons, lettuce to 

 Leghorns, and man- 

 darins to Muscovies, 

 the mixed farm ulti- 

 mately disappearing in favour of a farm of fowls, a permanent one, the largest, 

 and from every point of view one of the most successful in the Common- 

 wealth. A further testimony, too, in relation to the profitableness of the 

 poultry industry in comparison with the one to which the correspondent 

 attaches prosperity, is the fact thit independent of our very large consump- 

 tion of poultry and e.cgs, the .small 

 farms and other holdings in the Com- 

 monwealth are able to produce enough 

 for all our demands, there being but 

 a couple of hundred pounds of differ- 

 ence between the imports to Aus- 

 ti'alia and the exports to other 

 countries, while coming to the fruit, 

 the imports of fresh, dried, canned, 

 and otherwise pi'eserved exceed our 

 exports by hundreds of thousands of 

 pounds annually. 



From these facts it must not be supposed I am desirous of placing one 

 industry against the otlier, but rather to give facts and figures to discount 

 the condemnatory terms in which poultry breeding is frequently referred 

 to. I should here say that the subject of this j)apei' is a poultry farm pure 

 and simple — that is, there is no other stock or article produced on the 

 place for profit beyond eggs and meat — vet, despite wliat I know of the 

 profital)lene.-;s of the place, that is no reason for tho.-e lacking experience- 



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Fig. 3.— Just out. 



