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to-day is not a clergyman, but I am glad to know personally that he 

 is one who does appreciate the merits of the old hen, so that I feel, on 

 the part of the chairman at any rate, this audience will have his 

 sympathy and co-operation in anything that we may say. 



Mr. Orr then spoke LS follows: 



POULTRY BREEDING AND SPECIALTY BREEDING. 



By T. E. Oua, Beaver Pa. 



The subject for this afternoon is "Poultry Breeding and Specialty 

 Breeding." It is a subject that is entirely too large for anyone to 

 attempt to discuss thoroughly within the time limits allotted. 



Poultry breeding does not differ especially from other lines of live 

 stock breeding in many particulars; it does differ in some, at least 

 in this: You can see the result of your work sooner. You don't 

 have to wait four or five years to know what the result of a certain 

 cross of blood may have given you, as you have to do in the case of 

 the horse or the cow; it will not require so long to show all the char- 

 acteristic marks as shown in the dairy cow, the merino sheep or the 

 thoroughbred horse. As I said, you see the results more quickly, 

 much more quickly than if you attempt to build up, if you please, 

 a herd of dairy cattle, or beef cattle or road or draft horses. To 

 do that, you have to wait a long time before you see the result. In 

 poultry breeding, whether you breed on a fancy basis or on a com- 

 mercial basis, you reach the results that naturally come from the 

 breeding of poultry, within a comparatively short time, and it seems 

 to me that there is no topic that you can present to your people 

 in your counties that should be of more interest than the breeding 

 of poultry, because of the fact that you achieve returns more 

 quickly that ought to be satisfactory to the man who wants good 

 returns for his money. In fact, I believe that there is no line along 

 the whole sphere of agricultural industry that has a market so 

 ready to receive everything that you are able to produce, and I want 

 to say to these farmers of Pennsylvania that the great State of 

 Pennsylvania does not produce one-fifth of the poultry and eggs it 

 consumes. That is true of two great states, Pennsylvania and New 

 York. The city of New York, that great market, to say nothing of 

 Philadelphia, under whose shadow we now sit, the city of New York 

 consumes more eggs than the great State of New York produces. 



