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262 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JouRNAL. [1 Supr., 1897 
“Prices of poultry and eggs in 1896 were not high, but the year’s surplus, 
sold from Kansas farms amounted to within 2 per cent. of the total value of 
all milch cows owned in the great cattle-raising regions of Colorado, New. 
Mexico, Arizona, and Utah; more than the value of all cattle owned in 
Oklahoma, with the swine of Colorado, Montana, Neyada, and Wyoming added ;, 
for about the same as the value of all the sheep in the six New England States 
and those of New York and South Carolina added; nearly as much as all the 
sheep in Texas were worth; or as much as the value of all the corn of New 
England with that of North Dakotah; Montana, and Wyoming thrown in for 
good measure.” 
POULTRY ON THE DAIRY FARM. 
Wurte dairy: farming is a specialty, it is so because it stands at the top 
of all agricultural pursuits. The old maxim that ‘All roads lead to Rome” 
finds a variety of applications in these days, but nowhere more truly than when 
applied to dairying. All other agricultural operations are tributary to it, and 
it, in turn, is dependent on them. Everything fits in with it. The dairy farmer 
must plough, plant, and harvest; be a scientific breeder and rearer of cattle 
for his purpose; have full information about foods and feeding; and, more 
than any other farmer, can indulge in side lines. Indeed, these side lines are 
really indispensable for the economical disposal of his by-products. Among 
these side lines there is nothing which will give better returns on dairy farms. 
than poultry, and nothing, perhaps, in the proper management of which there 
is greater room for improvement. 
Whether considered from its universal nature, or from the profit of its 
products, poultry-keeping is surely a most interesting and attractive subject, 
In the combination of the dairy and poultry business we have a most happy 
union, and it has often been a matter of wonder to many why our dairy farmers 
do not place more emphasis on poultry as a source of income. ‘The poultry 
business requires no large amount of capital, and labour on the farm that 
would otherwise be idle can very largely be utilised in attending to it. The 
same customers who take the dairy produce would only be too glad to get the 
poultry supplies, so that no extra expense in marketing would be neécegsary. 
Poultry can be kept very largely upon what would otherwise be wastes of dairy 
business. Hens fed on butter milk or skim milk will yield a better return than 
when such milk is used in any other way. Much of the mixed food for dairy 
cows is admirably suited for feeding poultry ; little additional building is neces- 
sary; no extra help required; the capital investedin poultry can be withdrawn 
in a few days by sale of poultry; the waste products of the dairy are converted 
into profit ; and the combination of dairy and poultry business seems the most 
natural, the most attractive, and perhaps the most profitable adjunct to dairying 
that can be thought of. —Agricultural Gazette. 
THE PERA BORE. 
Tru value of a water supply obtained by means of bores is very well illustrated 
in the following article in the Maitland Daily Mercury, and with the magni- 
ficent supplies obtained from our Queensland artesian wells there is no reason 
why, instead of allowing the water to be available only for travelling stock, 
they should not form a centre round which comfortable, thriving homesteads 
may spring up, benefiting not only the immediate neighbourhood but the whole 
colony :— 
“On Saturday the Minister of Mines (Hon. Sydney Smith) with several 
members of Parliament paid a visit of inspection to the Pera bore, which is. 
situated a little more than eight miles from Bourke, in a westerly direction. 
‘©The Pera bore is one of a series of thirty-two Government bores which 
have been established in the Bourke district in an area measuring 4,000 square 
miles, while there are within the same area about eighty private bores. The 
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