. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. T-7-7 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. Au(;usT 2, POULTRY. Jlr. Barclay, tlie Sccivtary of the Jamaica Agri- rultiiral Huciety, has kindly pruiiiised a series of short articles on poultry, written especially for the Ai/iictdtural His notes will deal with the general usefulness of poultry, the various breeds, hous- ing, feeding, etc., and will, tiu-oughout, be written with a view to the sj>ecial retpiirenients and circumstances of keepers of poultry, on a small seah', in the West Indies:— IMPORTANCE OF POULTI
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. T-7-7 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. Au(;usT 2, POULTRY. Jlr. Barclay, tlie Sccivtary of the Jamaica Agri- rultiiral Huciety, has kindly pruiiiised a series of short articles on poultry, written especially for the Ai/iictdtural His notes will deal with the general usefulness of poultry, the various breeds, hous- ing, feeding, etc., and will, tiu-oughout, be written with a view to the sj>ecial retpiirenients and circumstances of keepers of poultry, on a small seah', in the West Indies:— IMPORTANCE OF POULTIIV. In almost every country in the world, tlie lien is considered an indisjiensable adjunct to the agriculturist ; and in many countries like Ireland, France, Germany, Belgium, and Denmark, she is one of the l)est profit-making items of the cottager as well as of the farmer. In the West Indies ?we are ajjt to overlook, if not actually despise, the imjior- tauce of a poultry industry to the country. It may not lie that the West Indies will ever have an export trade in , such as other British ('clonics with less favuundile climates have,—Canada and South Australia, for instance ; hut eggs and fowls are staple articles of diet, and lieing home-raised, the more they are in use, the better for these islands. Eggs are indeed a cheap and luitritious food, ami, taking into account the amount of actual food-stuff contained in an egg and whieli may iirinciiially be elaborated from seeds and grubs and waste products picked i\[> from the land, there is nothing cheajier. It is just as important to save outlay for importation of food-stutt's as to get returns from tlie exiiorta- tiou of our i>roducts. A free of home-laid eggs and hiruse-raised fowls is innneasuralily better than tinneil and piikled meats which are of less nutritive value. USEFULNKSS OF '.V. Coultry are ' useful, first for the value of their eggs, which if not sold can be used at
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