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While there have been some delays, I think there is no reason 

 now why our programme should not pass on smoothly. 



This afternoon we are to take up a topic which is of great 

 interest to us all, namely, poultry. That is a subject in which 

 the State Board of Agriculture has taken a great interest. 

 We are to have some good speakers on that subject this after- 

 noon. It is a very important question. The first speaker, the 

 gentleman first on the programme, is Mr. Charles K. Graham, 

 Assistant Professor of Poultry Culture in the Connecticut 

 Agricultural College. You will now listen to an address by 

 Professor Graham. 



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By Mr. Charles K. Graham, Assistant Professor of Poultry 

 Culture, Connecticut Agricultural College, Storrs, Conn. 



Mr. Chairman and Ladies and Gentlemen : I had intended 

 to give you a short talk on the poultry industry of Connecticut, 

 but we are fortunate in having with us today Mr. Almy of 

 Rhode Island, and also Dr. Wood, who is to give us a talk in 

 place of mine. I mention that so you will not leave the hall. 

 I am going to cut my talk short so as to give him a chance. I 

 was at a grange meeting the other evening where the state- 

 ment was made that the money expended in poultry equipment 

 and poultry itself, throughout the State of Connecticut, was 

 more than that experided in any other one branch of agricul- 

 ture in this State. Now I think it is possible that there is room 

 for argument on that. I do not know whether that is so or not. 

 However, I do not intend to defend it, but I feel that we can 

 safely say that there are more people interested in poultry in 

 the State of Connecticut than in any other one branch of agri- 

 culture. There are more people who are anxious to get in- 

 formation regarding poultry than ever before, and more than 

 there are, I think, regarding any other one branch. It is a 



