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necessary in order to stir up interest, and in order to satisfy 

 that class of people that there were some things about the 

 poultry business that they did not know, and to do that it was 

 necessary to bring in a class of speakers that were able not only 

 to give the average poultryman a good deal of new informa- 

 tion, but who were able to teach the best class of poultrymen 

 in the State, so as to get them to come out to the meetings. 

 Now we have had seven meetings during the last six weeks, 

 and we have had a good attendance at each one of those meet- 

 ings, and we have been able to demonstrate that we have got 

 lots of good talent for speakers right at home, if they will only 

 listen to them. There are any quantity of good men right here 

 in the State of Connecticut who know their business, who have 

 made it a careful study, and from whom the poultrymen of 

 this State can get a great deal of very useful information. No 

 one man knows it all. You may get a good idea from one man 

 here and another idea from another, and in that way build up 

 a fund of useful knowledge. 



Now we are not what is known as a chicken state. My 

 ambition is to have Connecticut known, or to have Connecticut 

 poultry known as Connecticut poultry, and not to have it said 

 that we have to sell Connecticut poultry under some other name 

 to get a good market for it. We want to be able to ship poultry 

 into the New York and Boston markets, and get good prices 

 while selling it as Connecticut poultry. When dealers ship 

 good poultry into New York or Boston now they do not feel 

 at liberty to say that it is Connecticut poultry. They now have 

 to say that it is Philadelphia poultry, no matter where it comes 

 from. We want to be able to ship our poultry into those mar- 

 kets and sell it as Connecticut poultry, to build up a reputation 

 for our own poultry, and the only way we can do that is with 

 a campaign of education. 



Now just a word or two as to another thing. Colonel 

 Brown said that if we could increase our egg production one 

 dozen eggs per hen per year it would enormously increase the 



