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have worked just as hard and felt you had just as good birds yet 

 do not receive a place, do not be discouraged. It is often true 

 there are none but good birds in your particular class, and if the 

 class is large they cannot all win a place, though there may be very 

 little difference in the quality of the winners and those which do 

 not win. Go home more determined than ever to win next year 

 and chances are that you will win more than the other fellow next 

 time, because he may feel that his birds are as good as they can be 

 and you will be striving to make yours just a little better. Those 

 of you who have not tried this side of the poultry business do not 

 know how much real pleasure you are missing and you who have 

 pure-bred birds and have never had sufficient enthusiasm to show 

 them, try it once, and who knows but you may discover that you 

 have just as good or perhaps better birds than many who have 

 been showing for many years. Then, too, you will find there is 

 still more profit, for once you make a good winning and with a 

 little judicious advertising telling the people what you have foi* 

 sale, you will have little trouble in disposing of same. Right here 

 let me urge you to advertise through our own Missouri mediums, as 

 you will find none better. 



Personally, I find real pleasure and profit in keeping standard- 

 bred poultry, and while I started in the poultry business with only 

 its pleasure in view the profitable side is now the most pleasant 

 part. 



FARM HOME MANAGEMENT. 



(O. R. Johnson, Assistant Professor of Farm Management, University of Missouri.) 



In our study of the management of the farm we have con- 

 tinually been brought face to face with the fact that no insignificant 

 factor in the success or failure of this management is the farm 

 home. We know, too, that in the last analysis the center of the 

 farm is the farm home and that around it is woven a web of farm 

 operations, the purpose of which is to bring into the home sufficient 

 means to give a desirable family life and living. Our efforts neces- 

 sarily turn to the careful study of the farm home in an effort to 

 better its efficiency by increasing the profits of the farm and by 

 establishing a better and more desirable farm life. Because a de- 

 sirable farm home life is so dependent upon successful farming, it 

 seems logical to discuss first the study of the relation of the home 

 to the business of farming. 



