180 ANNUAL REPORT. 



Mr. Smith moved a vote of thanks to Mrs. Underwood 

 for the valuable paper furnished the society and that she be made 

 an honorary member for five years. 



Mrs. Underwood. I believe I would rather object to being made 

 an honorary member, for I would prefer being an active member 

 of the society. 



The motion to tender her a vote of thanks for the paper, and 

 that it be published in the report of proceedings was carried 

 unanimously. 



Mrs. Ida E. Tilson, of West Salem, Wis., then read a paper 

 upon ''The Eelation of Poultry-raising to Horticulture." The 

 reading was listened to with close attention and received with 

 applause. 



THE RELATION OF POULTRY TO HORTICULTURE. 



BY MRS. IDA E. TILSON. 



There is an old newspaper joke which claims hens, like plants, 

 are set, and eggs resemble roses, being propagated by layers. 

 This paper, however, proposes to treat its subject in real earnest. 

 Neither horticulture nor poultry-raising requires large capital. 

 A little money buys many seeds or fowls. Either business is 

 most practicable on small areas. Poultry cannot range like 

 stock. A few acres of fruits and vegetables, with their constant 

 weeding and cultivation, are equivalent to the demands of a 

 whole farm planted in coarser crops. It is therefore surprising 

 that he who has a small capital, a small farm, or both, does not 

 oftener combine two such harmonious industries. When statis- 

 tics of either business are considered, it is equally strange that 

 men will risk new country privations to secure large farms, in- 

 stead of subdividing old lands in settled communities, and try- 

 ing these remunerative employments. A late paper estimates 

 the French eat, on an average, one hundred and fifty eggs apiece 

 each year. In the United States about $30,000,000 worth are 

 annually consumed. Not long since, some statistician astonished 

 one of Wisconsin's well developed counties by proving its horti- 

 cultural products had, that season, netted more than its com- 

 bined stock and dairy interests. 



Often two crops, fruits and fowls, can be grown in the same 

 enclosure without detriment to either, but, on the other hand, 

 with great advantage to both. If a flock are, in number, pro- 



