Report of Missouri Farmers' Week. 



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for pleasure or profit, or the combination, surely the woman 

 of the farm has the advantage over her less fortunate sisters of the 

 towns and cities; but in most cases she is not using this to best 

 advantage, since those who are making the greatest success in this 

 work are not the women of the farm but those in villages, towns 

 and even our larger cities. This, to my mind, is not as it should be, 

 in that the farm, with its broad green acres, where the growing 

 flock has unlimited range and where the variety of feeds is pro- 

 duced at smallest cost, is the ideal poultry plant. It is here where 

 the hen given the proper surroundings and plenty of feed is more 

 productive and brings in larger returns for the capital and time ex- 

 pended than anything else on the farm. 



Lady Show All. 



It has been said that the most universally kept farm animal is 

 the hen, and as a producer of food she ranks first. While this is 

 true, it is most frequent that she is the least of all appreciated. 

 Given half a chance she more than does her part, but this is just 

 where the trouble lies. On many farms poultry culture is but a 

 side line and its details are too little looked after to bring about 

 either very much pleasure or profit. 



While poultry of some kind is to be found on practically every 

 farm in the country, these flocks, as a rule, are not up to the stand- 

 ard of the remainder of the live stock on the place. The reason 

 for this, in most instances, at least, is because the farmer himself 

 considers poultry more or less of a nuisance and only tolerated for 

 the purpose of supplying his table needs. 



