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caring for them in the way she has described, and that these 

 gentlemen who have spoken do the same thing? And is it a 

 fact that they find pleasure and profit in doing it ? I hope 

 that lecture will be strewn broadcast over this community, 

 and go into every household with the discussion which has 

 been had upon this subject, so that people may know that 

 there are some folks who do feed their fowls and take care 

 of them. My experience is that there is not another so great 

 a nuisance in the State of Connecticut as the hen, and if any- 

 thing in the world can be done to enlighten the people on 

 this subject, and make them take care of their fowls, I shall 

 be very glad of it, and I am sure the people of the State of 

 Connecticut will pass a vote of thanks to Miss Reed and to 

 this convention if anything of that sort can be accomplished 

 by this meeting. 



Mr. Webb. I see the gentleman has caught it hard! I 

 caught it myself several years ago, and had it until my wife 

 cured me of it. I sowed a piece of turnips one year, manured 

 it heavily, took a great deal of pains with it, and thought I 

 was going to have a heavy crop of Swedish turnips. We 

 had some turkeys, and I wanted to kill the turkeys, and 

 to kill all the hens, too. My wife, however, persuaded me to 

 keep them all. Well, I made up my mind that she might 

 have her way that time, and I would trust the turnips. She 

 went on, and that fall, when she came to close her accounts, 

 she had sold about two hundred and sixty dollars' worth of 

 poultry, and we had more than we started with left, and I 

 had lost at least five bushels of turnips, worth twenty cents a 

 bushel ! 



This question of poultry raising is a very important one, if 

 we will attend to it properly. Everybody cannot make it a 

 specialty ; but every farmer can embody that as part of his 

 business, and can make money at it, by giving it care. It is 

 like every other department of business. 



Now, I have neighbors all around me, and they keep hens. 

 I used to keep myself in a fret all the time about my neigh- 

 bors' chickens, and sit up nights to think about them ; but 



