Missouri Home Makers' Conference. 



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HOW TO MAKE POULTRY PROFITABLE ON THE FARM. 



(T. E. Quisenberry, director of the Missouri State Poultry Experiment Station, Mountain 



Grove, Mo.) 



I am certainly delighted to have the 

 opportunity to speak to the good women 

 of Missouri who are interested in poultry 

 on the farm, for it is to the farmer's wife 

 that Missouri is indebted for the greater 

 portion of the $50,000,000 worth of poul- 

 try and eggs that are marketed in this 

 "^' k State each year. The 'care of the poultry 



^^J^ - ,A^ ^^ ^^^^ farm is left largely to the farmer's 



j^^H ^^^|H||fe wife, his son and daughter, and the far- 

 ^^^^^^^^^H| mer who doesn't give reasonable atten- 

 ^^^^^^^^^^ B tion to his poultry is neglecting a very 

 T. E. Quisenberry. important sourcc of revenue. A flock of 



100 to 200 hens, if properly bred, housed 

 and fed, will pay the dry goods, clothing, shoe and grocery bills 

 for the average family on the farm. 



The products of the Missouri hen have outstripped the 

 revenue derived from the Missouri mule. The poultry products 

 of Missouri are twice those of our annual wheat crop and half 

 as much as our annual corn crop. The Missouri hen pro- 

 duces $10,000,000 more wealth annually in this State than 

 do all the beef cattle of Missouri. Then, will it not pay you 

 to devote a few minutes time each day in properly caring for 

 your poultry? 



In a few words, the four essential things in successful poul- 

 try raising can be summed up as follows: 



1. Good stock — high vitality and pure bred. 



2. Good houses — inexpensive but comfortable and con- 

 venient. 



Good feed — clean and wholesome and some variety. 



Good care — clean ground and sanitary quarters, dili- 

 gence, and common sense. 



1. Without stock of strong, vigorous constitutions you 

 will be troubled with more or less diseases in both young and 

 old stock. A hen cannot lay many eggs without a good con- 

 stitution. The destiny of your young chicks is largely de- 

 termined before the eggs are laid. Don't breed from stock 



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