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chicks, particularly in feeding and housing. He treated ex- 

 haustively the subject of eggs, and gave methods of properly 

 caring for them to maintain their freshness and insure whole- 

 some eggs for culinary purposes and marketing. Mr. Kempster 

 demonstrated that eggs should be sold direct to the consumer 

 by the producer. Thus would be avoided the probability of an 

 impure article of food. The consumer would by a direct dealing 

 with the producer also buy more economically. 



I would deem it advisable for all who can do so and who 

 are interested in the production, growing and care of poultry 

 to take this short course at the State University at Columbia 

 under Mr. Kempster. No matter whether they are veteran 

 poultry raisers or beginners, they will secure much valuable 

 information that they might not otherwise obtain. 



HOW THE FARM WIFE MAY HELP TO IMPROVE POULTRY 



CONDITIONS IN MISSOURI. 



(Mrs. R. Lee Alford, Vandalia, Mo.) 



This is indeed an age of improvement and progress, and to 

 get the most out of poultry culture one must be educated in 

 its arts and science the same as any other industry in which 

 we hope to excel. Surely the people of no other state are so 

 richly endowed with opportunity for education in this par- 

 ticular line than we of Missouri, and it is now possible to obtain 

 best results with poultry more economically than ever before, 

 due to the growing interest and demand for knowledge along 

 this line, which is supplied through our best farm papers, poul- 

 try journals and bulletins from our State Poultry Experiment 

 Station, State Board of Agriculture and College of Agriculture. 



The object of the Missouri Home Makers' Conference is 

 through combined effort to show the farm wives of our State 

 what important factors they may be in helping Missouri retain 

 her reputation as "Poultry Queen of the Union" and what 

 better poultry, better houses and better methods will mean to 

 them in a financial way. This is being done to a large extent 

 by both the State Poultry Experiment Station at Mountain 

 Grove and the poultry department of our State University, 

 and the excellent work done by these institutions can be sup- 

 plemented by concerted effort on the part of the home makers. 



There is money to be made in poultry culture and it is as 

 dignified, as any other occupation, but intelligent business people 



