suppose that you are paying about 8 to 25 conte. dozen for tags which you buy through your cooks" in. Shanghai to-day. Bags the San Francisco markets are felling about 29 cents gold, and in the winter the price sometimes Fung as high as 70. conta. and Tighor. Ihave: bought in inland ties aad small towns in China as fow as one and a half cash apiece, but that was. before the days Sten the paid collectors of the Foreign hones in the trade appeared on the scene to Tores UP
Two factors that weigh heavily in Petaluma pocltey farms, which fcarcsiy enter into compotation all in China, are nearness 0 markote, and available. supply End. net cost of feed. "Petaluma has developed phenomenally a esi district principally because farmers have gone into the rasiog fon a strictly scientife bnsie, and ecauso the city is situated' nour to important. consuming, markets Tike San Francisen and other large, towne. in. Northern 'Cole iforsia, so also because thera is tfciont transportation, wale rain can be. parchaséd from Harvest fiekty near. by at lowest seholosnle prices. fo far_ as the fForetguee The, i coedacting the business' in China is. concerned, however, he has no cause to worry over these fartors, as he is not ae Sil'jnterested in" the domestic markets nnd is baying, grading
tod fee products" pavely packing and previ one Tup for export. sbroul, The Imaiter of foot is generally the fassers. atr, transportation foes not give shy concern to the foreign merchant, and all tat he hay to worry over ix the price he fean"buy og ay with attendant regard to fasstuations of native exchange. Sounds simple, but
worries Li others.
Tirade "doubly Has "Got a Bottle To-Day! time in China this trade was conducted roughly as follows—all the work was done in the collecting areas by accredited Chinese compradores, who collected the eggs from the small supplying farm stead and delivered the cargo to the door of the warehouse or handling station, and the product was paid for at'so much a picul either before or after grading had been done, the foreigner paying through these Chinese compradores, sometimes in dollars or sycee and sometimes jin native cash at the rate of the day. What a gigantic: graft for the 'Chinese, the go-between for the supplier and the exporter! As the trade increased tremendous les were made by the farmers who supplied the eggs in relation quant but I question whether the' quality has been stressed as it might have been. egg trade were developed under foreign suporyision China would very soon become the greatest egg producing country in the world.
OF A MODERN YARM, In this connexion it may!
interest to atate that found at Petaluma the size of the average poultry farm is from five to $0 nores. A ton-acre farm can accommodate from two to three thousand adult fowls and allow for the growing of green feed and young stock to maintain the adult flock. As high as a thousand or more fowls por acre are kept on some commercial farms, but not more than 500 per acre is greatly to be preferred if the land is to be kept free from contamination, the stock in continued good health and a most permanent. success secured. Too great crowding is unprofitable. 1 was informed, T admit to my surprise, that poultry raising Te-aires good farming land, because the green feod, at least, must be known and because forage crops should also be raised as such possible in the poultry yards if the soil is to he kept sweet and free. from disease spreading con amination, T noticed alo that the value of resting the land from poultry and sowing to green crops ery fow months, T understand is $0 well recognized that the use of double "yards" for each per of fowls is becoming more general.
Alkali land and barren hillsides are entirely unsuitable for poultry ing. Fowls will do well on any well drained
and gravelly loams are preferred Light sandy to the heavier pes because of a more rapid drainage surface water and the drying of the surface sol lo, fon sandy sails drainage, heavy into the ground about as fast as it falls, the surface will dry enough for fowls to use the yards soon after rain cansos, and such soils do not become sticky When moist. Sticky soil surfaces adhere, of course, tothe fect of the fowls: they track this into the note, and then the trouble league for Throat and Chest, Wakelield & Ca,
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