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POULTRY MANAGEMENT ON A FARM. 



Considerable attention has recently been directed to the 

 desirability and possibility of the extension of poultry- 

 keeping as an adjunct to the ordinary operations of the 

 farm. The Board have received at various times reports and 

 circulars issued by the National Poultry Organisation 

 Society, which was established in 1899, and has now assumed 

 considerable importance, with a membership of over 2,000, 

 and with 27 branches and centres, and 18 collecting depots. 

 Started with the main object of developing the commercial 

 side of the poultry industry by systematising the collection 

 and distribution of eggs, the society, without itself engaging 

 in trade, appears already to have made some progress in 

 stimulating the local organisation of producers, and in 

 advocating improved methods of poultry management. 



In this connection the Board have received a copy of a 

 small book entitled " Poultry Management on a Farm," in 

 which Mr. Walter Palmer, M.P., an active member of the 

 Executive Committee of the National Poultry Organisation 

 Society, gives a detailed account of the system of poultry- 

 keeping adopted on two of his farms at Winkfield, Berkshire, 

 comprising altogether about 220 acres. The soil throughout 

 is a fairly stiff clay, and the land is mostly in grass, but with 

 arable fields conveniently near the homestead. As new build- 

 ings have been erected for the cattle and horses, the old 

 wooden buildings (more than 200 years old) have been 

 utilised for the various purposes connected with poultry. The 

 management of the farm is entrusted to Mr. G. E. Parham, 

 who obtained his diploma of agriculture at Reading College, 

 where he also went through a regular course in aviculture. 



