1905.] THOROUGHBRED POULTRY VERSUS MONGRELS. I45 



The growing popularity of poultry topics has been recog- 

 nized by our leading newspapers. They often print articles in 

 their daily editions, and devote a page in their weekly edition 

 to poultry. As a rule they confine themselves to clippings, but 

 the near future will alter this, and they will follow the lead of 

 the straight agricultural papers, and will add a poultry editor 

 to their staff. 



The exclusive poultry press is gaining in numbers, and in 

 circulation every day. They are going more and more to the 

 farmers, and those interested in the bread and butter side of the 

 industry. Several of the leading papers have from twenty-five 

 to forty-five thousand subscribers, and their lists are increasing 

 at a rapid rate. 



Next in importance in arousing interest, and reaching a 

 larger number each year, are the State Agricultural Colleges, 

 with their extensive experiments and valuable data collected 

 concerning same and put in tabulated form for circulation. 

 More and more of our bright lads are learning to appreciate 

 the generous living to be earned by following poultry raising 

 as a business, and many of them are taking the courses at our 

 State colleges, and coming out with their diplomas to wake up 

 those of us who have gained our knowledge in the longer 

 course of experience. They gain a good theoretical grounding, 

 and also have some practical experience instilled in them in a 

 much shorter time than they would have gained the same 

 knowledge in any other way. 



In the near future, the colleges will demand longer courses, 

 and more practical work from their poultry students before 

 granting them diplomas, and when this time comes they will 

 take an even higher place among the sources of poultry wisdom. 



Many States are introducing Institute work, with lectures 

 followed by discussions, at central points. The method of 

 your State Board of Agriculture is really better, I believe, as it 

 brings more interests together, and is more apt to reach men 

 who have never given poultry a serious thought — simply left 

 it to their wives to produce pin money with. 



The combination of all these powerful movements, with 

 several others I have not mentioned, is doing the poultry indus- 

 try a world of good. • 



It has been demonstrated beyond all shadow of doubt, that 

 thoroughbred poultry is a bigger money-maker than the mon- 



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