144 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



December 15, 1904. 

 Convention called to order at 2 p. m. 



Vice-President Seeley in the Chair. 



The President. We will open our exercises this afternoon 

 with some music. 



Music. 



The President. We have this afternoon a very important 

 subject to be brought before us, " Thoroughbred Poultry versus 

 Mongrels, from the Farmers' Standpoint," by Mr. Morris F. 

 Delano, of Millville, N. J. 



THOROUGHBRED POULTRY VERSUS MONGRELS, 

 FROM THE FARMERS' STANDPOINT. 



By Morris F. Delano of Millville, N. J. 



Mr. President and Ladies and Gentlemen : Before starting 

 my paper I would like to tell you that I fully realize it will be 

 very short from a rhetorical standpoint. It is simply a practi- 

 cal paper from my own personal experience, and I am simply 

 trying to tell it in as interesting a manner as I can. 



The number of farmers who consider the mongrel barn- 

 yard fowl " just as good " is growing smaller every year. 

 There are several causes that are revolutionizing their point of 

 view, and making them realize the value of the thoroughbred 

 in poultry, as well as in other live stock. Among the principal 

 ones are, first, the press. Every leading agricultural paper now 

 has a department devoted to poultry, with its competent poultry 

 editor. Original articles are now demanded by readers to fill 

 the columns of these departments. The old hit or miss style, 

 where the liberal use of the scissors provided the bulk of the 

 matter for this department of each paper, no longer goes. 

 Farmers are getting more and more particular as to quality of 

 reading given them, as number of periodicals to choose from 

 multiplies. 



