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value of poultry products in Connecticut. That is true, and 

 I will be a little bit disappointed if a majority of the people in 

 this audience do not go away from this meeting with knowledge 

 sufficient to enable them to produce one dozen more eggs from 

 each hen during this coming year than they have this last year. 

 If we can just accomplish that throughout the State, we will 

 do our share towards getting that fifty million dollars. And 

 surely the State should be willing to do its proper share to- 

 ward helping us to get that money. It is a small investment 

 for a big return. 



Now we have with us today some of the practical men who 

 I think can give you that information, if you will simply ask 

 the questions. Do not go out of the hall and criticise the 

 speakers because they have not given you the information that 

 you want. Ask them the questions that will bring out what you 

 want, and get the information for your own good, for the good 

 of yourselves and your neighbors. 



I thank you, ladies and gentlemen. 



The President. The next speaker upon our programme 

 is Dr. P. T. Wood, who will address you on " Poultry Dis- 

 eases." 



Dr. P. T. Wood. Mr. Chairman and Ladies and Gentle- 

 men : I see I am down for a talk on poultry diseases, but I 

 am afraid you would find that subject rather dry and unin- 

 teresting. We all of us come to know something about diseases 

 as we go through this world, and I think you would rather 

 know something about the prevention of disease. With poultry 

 we have something in our power that does not lie in our power 

 as regards the human race. We human beings are pretty apt 

 to have our own way and then we pay for it, but with our 

 fowls we have absolute control. We can make them healthy 

 and keep them healthy if we try. There is absolutely no need 

 of having any great amovmt of sickness in the poultry plant. 

 You hear a lot about remedies and cure-alls that are advertised 

 in the poultry papers, and, in fact, in the press all over the 

 country. Personally I have not very much faith in a cure-all 



