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and let the dealer manner and completely finish them for the 

 market; but in breeding- draft horses the farmer is able to se- 

 cure all the price of his labor for the draft colt will begin to 

 pay for his keep at three years old and at five years old need 

 not owe the farmer a dollar for feed or care. 



Do not make the mistake of using any sire that may be near 

 you; get a good one even if the service is ten or fifteen dollars 

 more. Ten dollars saved now may mean $150 lost when the 

 colt is five years old. 



There always has been and I believe there always will be a 

 place at a good price for the right kind of a horse. 



Poultry keeping is another very profitable adjunct to 

 dairying. While every farm has its flock of hens which 

 pays a handsome profit in fresh eggs and chickens for the far- 

 mer's table, very few consider poultry as a source of income. 

 It is conceded that 100 pounds of skim milk will make as 

 many pounds of eggs or poultry as it will of pork or veal. 

 One can easily see where the poultry pays the best. With me 

 the hen is the only variety of fowl that will use skim milk. 

 Geese and turkeys won't touch it and I do not care to have 

 them. 



In poultry raising, nature's laws are to be respected if suc- 

 cess is to follow. Fowls when wild live entirely in the open 

 air. The hen being a native of a portion of the globe having 

 a warm climate, require good warm buildings in all seasons of 

 the year. But the turkey, being indigenous to this country, 

 does not require shelter of any kind, summer or winter, in fact 

 the profit will be lessened if he is confined at any period of his 

 existence. In this respcet, his majesty, the gobbler has a 

 great advantage over all other kinds of domestic poultry, and 

 where turkey raising can be carried on, no other branch of the 

 poultry industry can approach it in profitableness. Turkeys 

 do not need feeding if given free range. The first requisite 

 in turkey raising is a good fox hound, one that isn't afraid to 

 tackle a pole cat. If you have this kind of a dog the rest is 

 easy. There has been so much printed about how to raise and 

 manage the hen for eggs and poultry that I will not take your 

 time explaining my methods but with the turkey it is different. 

 While my methods may not be original they are at least suc- 

 cessful. 



I get as good breeding stock as can be had, being very care- 

 ful not to inbreed, for there is no stock that will show the evil 

 effect of inbreeding as quickly as the turkey. I do not feed 

 much corn or fattening food to breeding stock. Oats and 

 buckwheat are the best feed through the winter. Be careful 

 and not have them lay too early; starve them a little as the 

 eggs are apt to get chilled and not hatch. When the mother 



