lo Feb., 1909.] 



Utility Poultry Keeping. 



UTILITY POULTRY KEEPING. 



A Successful Industry. 



A. Hart, Poultry Expert. 



Valuable Adjunct to the Farm. 



The poultry industry presents many possibilities and probabilities 

 which afl'ect poultry keeping to a greater or lesser extent. The opinion is 

 often expressed that there is money in poultry, and my ov/n ideas are 

 certainly with those who make the statement. But it must be borne in 

 mind that, although this may be quite correct, there are cases where 

 poultry-keepers have failed. While admitting that these failures may 

 have been influenced to a certain extent by the poultry kept, I am in- 

 clined to think that the greater weight of evidence would be against the 

 poultry -keepers themselves. 



AMERICAN WHITE WYANDOTTES. 



Noted for their table properties aiid egg production. Bred by Mr. G. E, Andrew, 

 Ormond Poultry Farm, Ormond. 



That poultry can be made a success is quite certain, and many in- 

 stances could be given in support of this statement. But the strongest 

 point in favour of poultry keeping is that it can be practised as an ad- 

 junct to the farm, dairy or garden. It is in this form that I would 

 strongly recommend poultry breeding. To the farmer I would say, 

 keep poultry, for the dairyman I would advise a combination of poultry 

 with dairying, and to the fruit-grower I would suggest that fruit-growing 

 and egg-production could be successfully carried out. In each and every 

 calling there is ample room for the inclusion of poultry breeding, and the 

 Latter industry will fit in admirably with any or all of the three indus- 

 tries. Poultry kept on a farm can be fed at a comparatively low cost, 

 as nearly the whole of the food required can be produced from the land. 

 This not only lessens the cost of food by securing it on the spot at whole- 

 sale market value, but it also allows of the products of the farrr. being 

 marketed in a concentrated form in the shape of eggs and chickens, 



