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thing there has ajjpeared on our horizon another, something to be 

 completed or attained before we can feel free to enjoy the results 

 of our work. 



The fact is there is more real enjoyment in trying than in the 

 actual results themselves, and we should not allow ourselves to be 

 cheated out of the pleasures that are in the work of attaining the 

 object set before us. To live in the present and embrace the op- 

 portunities and pleasures of each day as they come, is to realize the 

 most and best of the future which is continually just beyond our 

 reach. 



"Hope high, and strive ever and count it not lost, 

 If your gold be but tinsel, your diamonds but dross; 

 For he is still rich, though by fortune forsaken, 

 Whose fortress of hope by despair is unshaken." 



The CHAIK: What is your pleasure in regard to this paper of 

 Brother Temple? What shall we do with the report? 



It was moved and seconded that the report be adopted as read 

 and placed on file, which was agreed to. 



The CHAIR: The next thing in order is, "The Importance of Poul- 

 try as a Farm Prodtict, by J. D. Nevins. 



The following paper by Mr. Nevins was then read: 



THE IMPORTANCE OF POULTRY AS A FARM PRODUCT. 



By J. D. Nbvins, Germantawn, Pa. 



There are tw'o birds in this country that are much talked about: 

 The one, the great American eagle, so often referred to by our 

 patriotic and eloquent Fourth of July orators, one of whom told 

 how that, on the fourth of July, 177G, she chewed up her iron cage, 

 flapped her mighty wings, and with a Yankee Doodle scream, soared 

 aloft; the other is the little American hen that, while the 'eagle 

 soared to light and rest on the highest crag of the loftiest peak of 

 yonder mountain range, was laboring in a farmer's pen, unheard 

 and unseen, to add her might to the stupendous wealth of this, the 

 greatest nation on the face of the earth, proving that the "pen" is 

 more important than the "soared," and the "scream of the eagle" is 

 of less value than the "lay of the hen;" and it is this "lay" that 

 leads us to consider for a short time her importance as a farm pro- 

 duct. 



The location, condition and size of the farm will, to a very im- 

 portant extent, determine the advantage that poultry would have 

 as a farm product over that of the dairy or seed crops. Through- 

 out the east, the dairy is, probably, the most important industry, 



