To, the Editor of the '"Nowru-Cuina Daly News."
Si—A sufferer from the recent Sino-Japanese hostilities; 1 shall be greatly obliged if you will kindly 7 Boblish my comments on the article Fe poultry farming appearing jour paper under the. heading How Self-help can be encouraged."
Having rented several mow land' in' the: Woosung district last November, and a bungalow and land last December, where T"resided, 1 invested and ventured {in the poultry. business with the idea of giving. the Shanghai public poultry fed and bred under foreign Supervision and sanitary conditions. At the outbreak of hostilities the business, although in its, infan was proving a success and becoming During the month of January 1 was receiving more orders for new laid exes than T could supply, also jan. excellent demand. for. young.
is and well-fed ducks at profit:
Auhowgh holding out for some! time, on February. 6 1 was chased to "Hell and Hackney", with my dock roaming the country from the Course. However, the i fo. the Kiangwai
fatten, with, the exception of the Thought "of receiving "ani cheque from the Japanese authori. ties who. were' wholly. responsible. Now I, as one one interested in the business and knowing the possibilities, would only be too pleased to make another start should capital be available, as like my unfortunate ow-nationals in Shanghai, finding a position I experience next to impossible.
"A modern poultry farm would unquestionably prove a success and the outlay in comparison to the possible profits would be comparatively ismail, also give employment to [several foreigners, which undoubted ip" ie"the aim of the many corres Pin the Kiangwan district, which onddents in your paper.
most suitable, ground an be rented from $5 per mow per annum. Poultry houses and. appliances, lcubators and brooders, urehased in Shanghai from stock. Native labour ig not required, fore-|elzners, as in England and "Amer-fea, can do everything necessary.
Tt is hard work, bat a pay Jbusiness—"it" the capital is' avail: able.
AxorneR UNEMPLOYED BRITON,
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