No. 6. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 3S1 



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aud so it'udcr our people piosperous and liappy, and secure to the 

 country the perpetuity of our free institutions for all time to come. 



MR. MARTIN: Before adjourning for this morning I wish to 

 remind you that owing to our visit to the Huntingdon Reforma- 

 tory immediately after dinner, our afternoon session will not begin 

 until 3 o'clock; but promptly at that time, whether there be a dozen, 

 two dozen or three dozen present, we will proceed with our after- 

 noon's program, and I desire especially that those who haA'e papers 

 on program and the chairman for the afternoon be on hand at that 

 time and be ready to proceed. 



Upon motion the meeting adjourned to meet at 3.00 this P. M. 



Wednesday Afternoon, June 3, 1903. 



HON. A. L. MARTIN, called the meeting to order promptly at the 

 time designated and announced that the Chairman for the afternoon 

 would be W. A. Crawford, of Cooperstown, Pa., who, thereupon, took 

 the chair. 



The CHAIRMAN: The first thing on the program for this after- 

 noon's meeting is "Breeding and Feeding Poultry," by Mr. J. Y. 

 Patton, of New Castle, Pa. 



The paper read by Mr. Patton, is as follows: 



BREEDING AND FEEDING POULTRY. 



By J. Y. Pattox, Nnv Castle, Pa. 



Poultry breeding has become one of the great occupations of our 

 day. It has kept pace w ith, if indeed it has not gone in advance of, 

 all lines of live stock breeding. When we look back half a century 

 and see what the poultry of that time was, and then look at the 

 poultry of to-day, we can readily see what careful and thoughtful 

 breeding has done. From the scrubs and dunghills of the past 

 have been bred our grand, practical and fancy birds of to-day. 1 

 will only endeavor to drop a few practical thoughts along the line 

 of poultry breeding and feeding, and not attempt to tell you all 

 about it for two reasons: First, because time will not permit; and, 

 second, because I do not know it all. 



Volume after volume has been written upon the subject, and the 



