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and also one hundred l^arred rock eggs. I had good hick with llicni. I 

 l)ought a brooder, and the chicks grew good, and in the fall I kept the best 

 pullets and sold the cockerels and other pullets. My henhouse is in the 

 i)asement. It is dry and wann. The pullets la\'ed good. In Mai'ch. 

 1913, I bought eight white orpington hens, and a cockerel. Last summer 

 I hatched thirty white orjiingtons and eighty barred rock pullets. This 

 winter I took the or]jingtons to the Tower City show, and won several 

 ]jrizes. I won good at Pittsford, and at the Rochester exposition. I keep 

 clean litter on the floor, which is cement, and clean out the henhouse 

 every two weeks, and put in clean wheat straw. I spray my henhouse 

 on?e a week, and clean the dropping boards every morning. My nests are 

 under the dropping boards. I keep clean straw in them. In the morning 

 I feed a scratch feed made of sixty pounds of cracked com, sixty pounds 

 of wheat, and thirty pounds of oats. I feed this at night, too. I have a 

 mash which I keep in hoppers all the time, composed of bran, middlings, 

 gluten meal, pea meal, fish scraps, oat meal, low-grade wheat flour, and 

 corn meal, and ground alfalfa meal. I feed green bone at noon every 

 other day, but not enough to force them. I hang cabbage in the pen 

 every day. I keep grit, oyster shells, and charcoal in hoppers. I give 

 them fresh warm w^ater twice a da}% in a w^ater fountain which I won at 

 the show. This month I bought a two hundred and fifty egg incubator, 

 which cost thirty dollars, and from September I have made a profit of 

 eight dollars and twenty-nine cents, and the incubator, feed, and every- 

 thing paid for. 



I now have sixty-three barred rocks and thirty white orpingtons; all 

 are pullets, except seven hens which are white orpingtons. The first of 

 February I got thirty-two eggs, thirteen being orpingtons. I am thirteen 

 years old. 



Respectfully yours, 



EDWIN BLODGETT 



District 4, Town of Pharsalia, Chenango County 



East Pharsalia, New York, February 23, 191 5 

 Dear Mr. Tuttle : 



I am going to write you a letter telling you how I enjoyed Farmers' 

 Week. Do you remember .a little girl with a red hat and a green coat? I 

 had a good time. I saw the rural school exhibit. Our school sent a bird's 

 nest mount, and an ear of com. I saw them. I wish I had gone with you 

 and the children in the afternoon. My mother is a school-teacher. I was 

 never to Cornell before. I went with her this year. I want to thank 3-ou 

 for the good time you gave me that day. 



I have received the January leaflet and we are reading in it for a read- 

 ing lesson. 



We have a thermometer in the schoolhouse and we tr}- not to let it get 

 over 68° F. Our stove is a large round oak. It has no metal jacket. 



I am gathering tent cateq^illar egg clusters. I have got 862 now, but I 

 am going to get some m.ore. 



