THE POULTRY INDUSTRY IN AMERICA.
Report on the Pouitry Industry in America. By Edward Brown. (National Poultry Organisation Society, 12 Hanover Square. Report on the Pouitry Industry in America. By Edward Brown. (National Poultry Organisation Society, 12 Hanover Square.
Is.)—The National Poultry Organisation Society certainly acted wisely in sending its secretary to the United States and Canada to inquire into the methods of poultry-keeping whioh have been successful in those countries. Stories of the remarkable profits earned by "mammoth poultry plants" across the Atlantic, in combination with imposing photographs of these places, have undoubtedly led to the establishment of many poultry-farming enterprises in this country which have landed their founders in loss. Our contemporary the County Gentleman, and the author of "Poultry Farming Some Facts and Some Conclusions," lately noticed in these columns, roundly declared not long since that no one had ever published the balance-sheets of a poultry farm, devoted solely to egg or table-bird production, which showed a profit on five years' working. This scepticism is fully justified by the investigations of Mr. Brown. He has evidently seen the best that is to be seen in the way of American poultry "plants," and his verdict is :—" No poultry farm has been carried to a successful issue upon a large scale except as a combination
plant It cannot be too strongly emphasised that poultry. keeping must be linked with some form of cultivation."
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