POUGHKEEPSIE 



47W 



POULTRY 



Anthracite coal, extensively mined in tho 

 Schuylkill region, is shipped from Pottsville, 

 and in the city are shops of the Pennsylvania 

 and the Philadelphia & Reading railroads, a 

 large steel plant, knitting mills, textile and silk 

 mills and manufactories of shirts and shoes, 

 bolts and nuts and explosives. Pottsville has 

 a fine courthouse, a public library, a public hos- 

 pital, and an attractive park. Settled about 

 1800 and platted in 1816 by John Potts, the 

 I-lace was incorporated as a borough in 1828 

 :ind as a city in 1913. In 1914 the commission 

 form of government was adopted. H.R.K. 



POUGHKEEPSIE, pol;ip'*i, X. Y.. the 

 county seat of Dutchess County and an educa- 

 tional center of special interest as the seat of 

 Vassar College (which see). It is situated in 

 the MHitheastern part of the state, seventy-five 

 miles north of New York City, and the same 

 tnce south of Albany. Poughkeepsie is 

 favorably located on the east bank of the Hud- 

 son River, has river-boat and ferry service (the 

 latter connecting with the West Shore Rail- 

 road), and is on the Central New England and 

 the Xew York Central railroads and on electric 

 urban lines. The area of the city is about 

 three square miles. In 1910 the population was 

 27.936; the state census of 1915 reported 32,714. 



Built partly upon a plateau and partly upon 



sloping land, Poughkeepsie commands a fine 



he Hudson River. The city takes its 



name from an Indian word meaning safe har- 

 bor. Here is held the annual intercollegiate 

 regatta for American colleges, Harvard and 

 Yale excepted. The fine campus of Vassar Col- 

 lege is east of the city. The city also has Glen 

 Eden Seminary, Putnam Hall, Adriance Me- 

 morial Library, the Vassar Brothers' and Saint 

 Francis hospitals, sanitariums, and homes for 

 aged people and orphans. The Hudson River 

 State Hospital is two miles north. Buildings 

 of note are Columbus Institute (convention 

 hall), the state armory, a $350,000 high school, 

 the Amrita Club and the Y. M. C. A. building. 

 The city has attractive parks and squares, and 

 fine residence districts. 



The output of Poughkeepsie's industries is 

 sometimes more than $12,000,000 a year. The 

 principal articles of manufacture are farm ma- 

 chinery, plows, horseshoes, cream separators, 

 automobiles, trousers, cough drops, candu-. 

 buttons and tobacco products. 



Poughkeepsie was settled by the Dutch in 

 1698. It was a military base for the American 

 army during the War of Independence, and as 

 the meeting place of the state legislature dur- 

 ing the war it was then the state capital. The 

 Federal Constitution was ratified here by the 

 coin int ion under the leadership of Alex- 

 ander Hamilton in 1788. Poughkeepsie was in- 

 corporated as a village in 1799 and became* a 

 city in 1854. W.H.F. 



OULTRY. In a broad sense, the term poul- 

 1 not only to the common barnyard 

 fowls the cock and the hen but to ducks. 

 geese, turkeys, guinea fowls and a few oth. r 

 domestic it, ,1 hii roaring of the com- 



mon foul. 1 1 i> reached a place of such 



try routing is now \ 



nllv Prob- 



of farm work has aroused 



nt yeare than the poultry 



a attracted many because it 



an opportunity for an active out-of- 



taken it up because 



sing demand for poultry 



products, and the high prices obtained for 

 them seem to promise good profits from a 

 moderate investment. The man who un. lei- 

 stands the poultry business can make more 

 . in proportion to the capital invested, 

 than one who raises wheat. \r. 

 undertakes to raise chickens must be prepared 



k hard and persrvennuly. to 

 cheerfully many disappointments and failures. 

 be content with small returns at first, and be 

 willing to ! 



How Poultry Is Classified. A standard met ho. 1 

 of classification divides chickens into clause*. 

 breeds and varieties, with reference to 



