No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 289 



POUI/rKY FOR PKOF^TT. 



BV N. (i. TKMI'LE, KSl^)., PdCdlHiDII. Pl(. 



With the new year comes new plans for the future. Air castles 

 they may be, yet, nevertheless, they are important inasmuch as 

 they are periods of inspiration, the times that urge us forward to 

 better endeavors. How many there are among us planning this 

 yecir, either to better the home surroundings or build an entirely 

 new home, and how many thousands are arranging to leave the 

 crowded cities and find a home in the suburbs, or perhaps build 

 a country home, with its business connected therewith, for the time 

 has come that the farm is no longer run on the slip-shod principles 

 of the past, but now with better understanding as to its require- 

 ments a larger profit is obtained therefrom. Can anything be more 

 ideal than such a home when conditions are right? True, it savors 

 of labor, but in what is there more pleasure than in honest labor 

 that we take a daily interest in. Here is the secret of successful 

 poultry raising, for the successful poultryman is the man who 

 loves his business. It needs the spirit of enthusiasm to make the 

 self-uiade man a successful man of to-dav, I care not what his 

 pursuit. 



There is nothing that will contribute more to the comforts of a 

 family occupying such a home as I have suggested than its flock of 

 poultry. Village, town and city folks have no business to keep 

 I>onltry unless they are willing to give them the decent and neces- 

 sary attention consequent upon keeping poultry in limited areas. 

 As I pass through sections of the country it gives me great 

 pleasure to note the improvement being made everywhere in the 

 matter of thoroughbred poultry. The good work goes on and those 

 who have been giving their fowls the care and attention they merit 

 are beginning to reap the rich reward of time well spent and labor 

 well done. It is an impossibility for any one to get a corner on 

 the chicken market or have an over-production as the result. The 

 breeders who start with good foundation stock, well and carefully 

 mated, properly looked after and cared for are the ones who make 



19—6—1903 



