Report to the ... Zionist Congress and to the Council of the Jewish Agency in ... · 1935-08-01 · 8.1935 · p. Seite 357

Table 5. Income and Expenditure of Poultry-Coops in 5694 in Kvutzoth. No. of Income Expenditure Profit Loss fowls. in£P. in £P. in£P. in£P. Kiryath-Anavim... 2,456 1,902,919 2,183,683 _ 280.764 Gan-Shmuel 914 665,523 621,986 43,537 — Mishmar-Haemek 2,140 1,137,156 1,205,393 — 68.237 Jagur ...... 2,788 1,820,690 1,573,135 247,555 — Gebeth ...... 3,520 1,902,683 1,969,258 — 66.575 Ayanoth...... 1,960 869,108 1,069,565 — 140.457 Hasharon 1,945 1,170,067 1,396,628 — 226.561 Sarid ...... 2,309 1,766,610 2,129,065 .— 362.455 Gneiger ...... 1,590 873,068 927,312 — 54.244 Mizra ...... 2,377 1,741,224 1,740,319 905 — Merhavia, Kibbuz 1,920 1,269,667 1,142,232 127,435 — Geva ...... 2,568 1,685,634 1,593,345 92,289 —i Ein-Harod 2,160,780 2,662,481 — 501.701 Tel-Joseph 2,199,837 2,414,701 — 214.864 Beth-Alfa...... 749,481 859,680 — 110.199 Heftzi-Ba 584,005 586,118 2.113 Degania A 1,219 703,075 868,294 165.219 Degania B 1,330 652,807 742,549 89.742 Kinereth ... 1,435,662 1,419,099 16,563 Kf ar Nathan Laski 1,841 1,041,127 971,594 69.533 Remark.—Only some of these settlements had any profit in 5694 from poultrycoops. This branch is not yet sufficiently developed to yield profits. Some of them are still short of coops, incubators, etc. Financial assistance for this purpose was granted to the settlers only this year in the final consolidation budget, and it is hoped that the settlers being now equipped with the necessary working means, will make this branch shortly self-supporting. Exact figures from the smallholding settlements are not available, as they do not keep books. However, it is clear that the settlements that succeeded in obtaining a yield of 3,000 litres per cow per annum are self-supporting. Such cows, after the deduction of all the expenses involved in their maintenance, food, insurance, etc., yielded a net income of £P.15—17 per annum. 7. Food Supply for the Cattle Herds. With the exception of the settlements in the mountain zone (Kiryath-Anavim and Ataroth), all the other settlements provide their own fodder : dry and green hay, lucerne, clover, maize where there is irrigation, and maize silage in the places where there are no irrigation facilities. The silos erected in the settlements which have no irrigation facilities produced good results. The Falha fields provide the cow-sheds with straw, stubble, barley and maize seeds. The statistical figures which were collected regarding supplies show that the fodder produced in the agricultural settlements for the requirements of the cow-sheds amounts to 64 per cent, of the whole grain production. The various fodder yields in the settlements fluctuate as follows : Clover under irrigation Lucerne Green maize...... Beetroot ...... Non-irrigated hay from 8 to 10 tons per dunam. from 6 to 8 tons per dunam. from 3 to 4 tons per dunam. from 8 to 12 tons per dunam. from 1.5 to 2 tons per dunam. 357