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poultry show and ask him how he succeeded, and his answer will be 

 about as follows : If it had not been for two cuts on the hackle, one 

 and a half on back, one on breast, two on the flight part of the wing, 

 one on saddle feathers, one on tail, two on toe feathering, two on 

 symmetry, and four or five other cuts that he could not remember just 

 where, he would have carried off the highest honors. 



All over our land we find poultry plants. Some are for broilers, 

 others for eggs alone ; others still for bakers and roasters, and occasion- 

 ally here and there establishments for the rearing of fancy poultry. It 

 is the fancy which furnish the foundation stock for all poultry men 

 who make their business profitable. And those large growers of 

 poultry for eggs and other market purposes owe an immense debt of 

 gratitude to those patient and painstaking fanciers who have given 

 their lives and unceasing energies to the development of those latent 

 potentialities contained in common poultry, but which, under the 

 scientific manipulation of intelligent experts' has resulted in the pro- 

 duction of an almost endless number of grand and beautiful breeds, 

 all of which may be adapted to the different purposes for which they 

 were intended. In the horticultural world we have Warder, Thomas, 

 Eliot, Breckmans and Wilder, and a host of such. And correspond- 

 ingly in the poultry we have Felch, Babcock, Pierce, Philander 

 Williams, Bicket, Hews, Hitchcock, and very many others, who have 

 given the best days of their lives to the development of these two 

 grandest industries, and we are reaping the rich golden harvests, 

 which in great measure is the result of these indefatigable workers. 



Combating the Codling Moth. 



P. T. Greene, New A-lbany, Ind. 



In the " Indiana Farmer " of October 27, at the bottom of the first 

 page, I find a short editorial on the possibilities of electricity that 

 struck me forcibly, the last sentence of which was : " The water- 

 powers going to waste on or near every farm will yet transmit their 

 power over wires to every field and building, and save the farmers 

 untold labor." Had the editor of the "Farmer"' only added, and the 

 orchardists millions of dollars' worth of fruit, I should say he had mani- 

 fested a remarkable aptitude for prophecy. Farther on I will give my 

 reasons for saying this. 



All my life I have taken a lively interest in fruit-growing, and am 

 able to trace it to one little circumstance that occurred sixty years ago, 

 when at the age we get our most lasting impressions. W.e children 



