90 State Horti cultural Society. 



Mr. Tillinghast's trees are to be credited to the poultry. 



Now, if a man in Connecticut can have such marvelous success 

 with poultry in his orchard, why not Missouri men have the same ? 

 It is time for us to wake up. 



If you want the best results from your trees and the best fruit 

 in the world, keep your poultry in the orchard. 



COMBINED FRUIT AND POULTRY FARMING. 



(By O. W. Steiinau, Diiltoii, Mo.) 



The one important question that confronts the average fruit 

 grower is how to utilize the orchard so that it will pay its yearly 

 expenses and interest upon the investment until the young trees 

 come to bearing age. 



Many inventions have been sought out to solve the problem. 

 Some have resorted to sowing their orchard land to grass, and then 

 using it to pasture sheep and hogs. Other fruit growers have fol- 

 lowed the continuous cropping system, while others have sown their 

 young orchards down to clover and cut it for hay. All of these 

 systems persistently followed usually end in injuring the fruit trees, 

 one way or another, in injuring the young tree itself or in robbing 

 the soil of that fertility which should have been left to grow and 

 develop the fruit in future years. 



Knowing these facts, many fruit growers have asked them- 

 selves the question : "Does it pay to raise poultry in my orchard?" 

 Like all other business propositions, "it is the man behind the gun," 

 who must have the capacity for great labor, and possess that "push 

 and stick-to-it faculty" so essential to any business enterprise. To 

 combine poultry raising with fruit growing successfully, the fruit 

 grower should carefully weigh each step taken. If he wishes to 

 enter poultry raising upon a large scale, he should employ an ex- 

 perienced poultryman. But, like diamonds, such men are not easily 

 found. 



To begin right is the gateway to quick success, even in the 

 poultry and fruit business. So I shall endeavor to guide the begin- 

 ner through the shoals of inexperience until he can in a measure 

 sail his own craft. 



Do not overload yourself, but commence in a small way, with a 

 selected number of thoroughbred fowls. Procure these birds from 

 some reliable firm or person who has a reputation at stake. Twenty 



