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The plan adopted for establishing poultry 

 stations is to forward to some congested district 

 thirty hens with three cocks of a laying strain 

 to a farmer and his wife, and a gratuity of £5 

 a year is awarded to the farmer, who in return 

 is obliged to sell at least seventy sittings to the 

 local farmers at Is. a sitting. 



I notice in looking at the agricultural 

 returns of Great Britain that Ireland now 

 exports to England eggs realising a larger 

 sum of money than either Russia or Denmark. 

 An extract from the last annual Report of 

 the Kings County Committee of Agriculture 

 shows how Irishmen are beginning to be alive 

 to the importance of co-operative marketing 

 of poultry as well as of butter. " The poultry 

 industry is looked down upon," runs the 

 Report ; " yet from Garry castle district alone 

 800 boxes of fattened poultry were dispatched 

 to the London market during the last three 

 years. The average price received was 7s. 9d. 

 per pair. Deducting Is. 8d. as the cost of 

 fattening each pair and the cost of carriage to 

 London, the net average receipt per pair was 

 6s. Id. The average price of chickens in the 

 district during the same period was 3s. 3d., a 

 clear gain of 2s. lOd. on 2400 pairs, which 



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