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Association should not be strictly a fanciers' body, 

 which it virtually is at present, but should also make 

 itself indispensable to the utility man, and this in such 

 wise that he must recognize this service and become a 

 member. Strong effort is being made along this line. 



It is but recently that the poultry world rubbed its 

 sleepy eyes in awaking to the fact that women form 

 presumably about two fifths of those actively interested 

 in all matters which are at the present supposed to 

 form the especial bailiwick of the American Poultry 

 Association. Not long after this, the Secretary of the 

 American Poultry Association sent out a circular letter 

 to members, whose preamble voiced the Secretary's 

 recognition of the important part which women are 

 taking in poultry culture, and his belief that the Ameri- 

 can Poultry Association could do no greater service 

 to the cause it represents than to take an active interest 

 in establishing a women's department, to be known 

 as " The Ladies' Auxiliary of the American Poultry 

 Association." It was proposed that the Auxiliary 

 should be conducted along the same lines as the 

 Branch Associations already under the Association. 

 A part of the purposive outline of this new venture 

 was stated thus : " To encourage women to become 

 interested in Institute work and to contribute articles 

 on all phases of poultry culture to the Poultry Press." 

 Probably the worthy Secretary did not know that 

 women had been eagerly welcomed by the Poultry 

 Press as contributors, for twenty years previously, 

 provided that they would work for the serene joy of 

 getting their names in print, or of being " a sister " 

 to the rest of the public ; or would take their payment 



