Poultry In New Guinea
pp. 77-78 · Read in the full issue
OEFORE the war, Mr. C. M. Jacob " son demonstrated that poultry farming could be made profitable in New Guinea. He ran 4,000 carefully selected White Leghorns on his property in the Markham Valley, just outside Lae, and the industry was full of promise when the Japs in vaded. The sequel was a complete wipe-out—part of the great battle of
Lae, in September, 1944, actually was fought on Jacobson’s plantation.
After the war, he turned to cocoa culture, and he has experimented with many things; and now he plans to return in a big scale to poultry-rais ing. The Territory presents no special problem, either in climate or in ‘feed ing. Eggs are worth 6d each in Lae.
The booked passengers of the north-bound July sailing of Tofua from Auckland included four pure bred Saanen milch goats for the Niue Is. Administration. The goats (purchased from the Belgravia stud of Mr. V. C. Wallace Wright, Invercargill, NZ> will provide a good milking strain.