24 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Sept., 



methods in feeding and caring for swine seem highly desir- 

 able. To aid in bringing this about the Connecticut Swine 

 Growers' Association has been formed. Through it and the 

 pig club work with boys and girls the swine industry in Con- 

 necticut should become as prominent as other lines of our 

 state's agriculture. 



POULTRY. 



Connecticut offers exceptional opportunities to the poultry- 

 man. A state of short distances, thriving cities and towns, 

 an abundance of comparatively cheap land well adapted for 

 poultry culture, makes it a proposition worthy of considera- 

 tion by the poultry man looking for locations. 



There are many locations on state roads where the auto- 

 mobile traffic makes a home market at practically retail 

 prices for fresh eggs, poultry and other farm products, which 

 should always be considered as a part of the poultryman's 

 source of income. The history of Connecticut poultrymen 

 show^s a disheartening record of those who specialized in 

 commercial eggs and poultry alone. On the other hand, the 

 men who have made poultry a part of a general farm, or a 

 specialty supplemented by fruit or other crops wdiich utilize 

 the spare time of the poultryman, the poultry manure, etc., 

 and incidentally augment the income, show opportunities for 

 a pleasant and profitable business along these lines. 



Eggs during the past year have ranged in price from fifty 

 cents to a dollar and a quarter a dozen at retail, and poultry 

 from forty to seventy-five cents per pound full dressed. 

 AVhile the prices of these products for the past year may at 

 first glance seem high, a comparison with other food prices 

 will show that they are not, relatively speaking. \Mth Con- 

 necticut producing less than enough to supply one of her 

 larofe cities, and Avith the steady increase in her industrial 

 population, there seems no possibility of the business being 

 CA^erdone. A study of the poultry situation brings out the 

 fact that the greatest obstacle is the great difference betw^een 

 the price the consumer pays and that which the producer 

 receives. 



Eggs and poultry reach the consumer in practically tlie 

 same condition in which they leave the hands of the pro- 



