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together. The one big stumbling block in the way is to get this 

 color, and the slide makers have not been able as yet to get the 

 correct shade of color in Rhode Island Reds, but this gives you 

 some approximate idea of what constitutes color in Rhode Island 

 Reds, one even beautiful red color. Now let us have the workaday 

 Rhode Island Red. There is quite a difference. You at once notice 

 that the man breeding these chickens did not pay so much attention 

 to color; it was the ability to lay eggs, and again you notice some- 

 thing outstanding in these five hens; what is it? Vitality. Don't 

 those chickens look as if they were really alive? And they are. I 

 have had the chance to watch them a great many times and look 

 them over and they are that way on the Pennsylvania farms; they 

 are alive from start to finish, and is there any wonder they are 

 beating the others in laying eggs. The reason is because they are 

 alive and because the men who own them have been careful to 

 look after vitality and vigor, so far as breed is concerned. I in- 

 tended to say a whole lot more about these different grades, but 

 unless you want to ask a question or two, I shall stop right here. 

 I have given little hints of what the general public has found to 

 be best, and you will be pretty nearly safe in following these four 

 breeds and not getting outside of them if you want to get the best 

 chickens. 



THE DRAFT BREEDS OF HORSES 



DR. CARL W. GAY, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Ladies and Gentlemen: I am a little disappointed because the 

 quartet didn't sing, ''A Hot Time;" I believe that wauld be more 

 appropriate than the song they rendered. We are having rather 

 a cool reception to-night, and if you become too much congealed 

 and will indicate that fact, I will close at any time. 



You may wonder whether or not it is worth while to devote 

 a place on this program to the discussion of horses. I don't know 

 anything in the way of farm products at the present time about 

 which there is any more question than the production of horses. 

 I do not propose to take up the answer to that question, because 

 we haven't time; I can merely emphasize two facts. In the first 

 place, I admit that the horse market did not recover this spring 

 as a great many of us thought and believed it would. That, how- 

 ever, was not the fault of the horses nor of the men behind the 

 liorses. You know if you go by thue market quotations as a criterion 

 of the standing of horses as a farm product to-day, you will be 

 somewhat discouraged. It is a fact that the horse market is off, 

 but it is not very hard to determine the cause. If you go to the 

 city or simply read the papers, you know there is a certain amount 

 of business stagnation still; concerns that have been working a 

 hundred horses perhaps are only working sixty; they not only 

 are not going to keep up their full quota of a hundred, but they 

 may have turned that extra forty on the market, so there is a 

 practical glut on the market and very little doing in the purchase 

 of high class stock of horses, but the reason is easy of explana- 



