1 Jan., 1902.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 35 
HIGH PRICES FOR POULTRY. 
Talk about high prices for highbred stock. Mr. Joseph Partington was a 
poultry breeder o. mote in England, and a great prize-winner. He died a few 
months ago, and his stock of purebred fowls was sold. People from many parts 
of the ivorld came to the sale. The top price was £150 for a Black Orpington 
cock, which price was paid by Mr. Wm. Cook, the introducer of the Orpington 
breeds. Three hens fetched £69, and cockerels hatched this year £17 each. 
POULTRY-BREEDING IN VICTORIA. 
The poultry-breeding industry in Victoria is gradually increasing and 
becoming more profitable, owing to the export trade of eggs and fowls having 
been opened up during the last few years. The Victorian export trade in ~ 
poultry produce is of quite recent origin, and a few years ago Victoria supplied 
only the home demand, which, being inadequate to the supply, caused low and 
unremunerative prices of eggs and table birds. Since, however, a market has 
been found for the produce of Victorian poultry-yards in this and other coun- 
tries, the outlook for the poultry industry has greatly improved, and poultry- 
keeping is now a profitable business. x 
The poultry industry is chiefly in the hands of farmers, vinegrowers, and 
market gardeners, although there are a few poultry farmers who make the 
production of eggs and table birds their sole business. Poultry fancying, as 
distinct from utility poultry-breeding, is also in a flourishing condition, and 
many purebred birds of various breeds have been and are imported from this 
country and the United States. 
The conditions are very favourable to poultry-keeping in Victoria, the 
climate being mild, and there being no cold winters. The poultry industry is 
greatly assisted by the Department of Agriculture, which organised the export 
trade, while it also undertakes the shipment of poultry produce through the 
Government Cool Storage Depdt, and assists the industry in other ways.— 
Exchange. 
TRAP NESTS FOR LAYING HENS. 
For the purpose of obtaining a selection of eggs from the best laying hens, 
Mr. W. B. Tegetmeier contributed the following remarks to the Field on trap 
nests for hens :— 
Thereis a wide distinction between the poultry-breeders of America and those 
of ourowncountry. In England wecan get together exhibitions of many thousands 
of birds, not a single one of which has been selected for useful or profitable pur- 
poses, but as illustrations of the power of man in modifying the plumage and 
form of domesticated animals. In the States, on the other hand, considerable 
attention is paid to the breeding of animals for useful purposes, and a selection 
is made of the best laying hens, the eggs of which are hatched so as to propagate 
the most prolific breeds. Where a considerable number of hens are kept, the 
