502 Missouri Agricultural Report. 



As to what is being done in this line, a few illustrations will 

 suffice. A Windsor, Mo., man has a farm of 400 acres. His wife 

 and daughter spend their spare time raising poultry. The income 

 from their farm poultry flock for one year was $713.00. Another 

 farmer of the same town is keeping 1,600 brown leghorn hens. 

 They have kept an accurate account for over twenty years and 

 during this time their poultry receipts have run from $2,500 to 

 $3,000 a year. A Pleasant Hill man was offered fifty cents 

 a dozen for all fresh eggs from November 1st to April 1st, and was 

 also offered a high price by a Chicago firm for all the fresh eggs 

 he could produce and those he could get from his neighbors. He 

 has incubator capacity of five thousand eggs. The Yesterlaid 

 farm, Pacific, Mo., keeps three thousand chickens and on Novem- 

 ber 25, 1911, was getting fifty-six cents a dozen at its home station, 

 shipping them to New York City. In many places where a little 

 attention is paid to marketing, good prices can be obtained and 

 the cost of production is comparatively small. 



There is great need for poultry education. Until this time 

 little work has been done along educational lines in the State. The 

 high quality of the poultry and the extent to which the industry 

 has been developed have come chiefly because of the favorable con- 

 ditions for such work. In 1911, there was established at Mountain 

 Grove a poultry experiment station under the direction of T. E. 

 Quisenberry, and the same year there was also established at the 

 University a department of poultry husbandry under the direction 

 of the writer. The educational lines should be directed toward 

 increasing the products of the present flocks, encouraging the 

 keeping of better breeds and the more successful marketing of the 

 products of the hen. There is no limit to the amount of work 

 which can be done among the producers relative to the manner in 

 which their products are handled. Boys' poultry clubs should be 

 organized, as they have been in, some sections of the State. People 

 should be taught to appreciate the rapidity with which eggs 

 deteriorate and understand the principles the practice of which 

 would permit them to market eggs in suitable condition. Poultry 

 culture should be taught more in the public schools, because it 

 affords an excellent opportunity for studying animal life. 



When the Missouri farmer is taught the importance which the 

 poultry flock plays on the farm, he will adopt better methods in 

 his poultry culture, will have better stock, better equipment and 



