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and there was everything in the way of breeds, but it was all 

 from thorough-bred good stock. This was about the 20th of 

 September. That is a time when you have the time to devote 

 to it. If you are a professional man's wife, and are thinking 

 of going into the poultry business you cannot begin at any 

 better time of the year than that. Well, those chickens did not 

 have any too good care, but out of the whole lot I only lost 

 eleven. I think a cat got some, and one or two died. All 

 that they had that winter to eat was cracked corn. Those 

 chickens were all in one room together, a room about ten by 

 sixteen feet. About the last day of February a little Black 

 Minorca pullet among them began to lay. Then I separated 

 them. There were some sixty pullets. I sold the little cockerels, 

 i got fifty cents a pound for those little cockerels. I sent them 

 all to New York to a commission house, and got a good price 

 for those sixty-five little cockerels. The pullets began to lay 

 and they laid all that next summer. They did not moult that 

 fall, and winter was well advanced before they moulted. I 

 do not know how to explain that. But my experience, you see, 

 was very satisfactory with those fall chicks. They all turned 

 me a good profit. There, you see, was an experience for a 

 woman that did not know anything about it. You cannot 

 learn it, however, if all of your time is taken up with cleaning 

 house and putting up pickles and taking care of children. If, 

 however, you have the time to devote to it, you can raise quite 

 a bunch of chickens for broilers, and incidentally make a few 

 dollars. The question of profit from raising chickens upon a 

 large scale, of course, there is not time for me to discuss. I 

 think I have talked long enough. (Applause.) 



President Seeley. Ladies and Gentlemen : Mr. Colling- 

 wood, of the Rural New Yorker, will speak to us on this same 

 topic, and after his address the Question Box will be opened 

 and the questions will be considered. 



