284 THE BEGINNER IN POULTRY 



The very manufactures of poultry appliances have 

 added largely to poultry literature. And, although one 

 needs to read with open eyes and judgment agog, there 

 are some catalogues of this kind which contain as good 

 literature on their especial topics as can be had any- 

 where. It is a rather good education to read just these 

 catalogues, provided that one can keep his head and 

 balance one against another. Milo Hastings has made 

 the unqualified statement that practically all the litera- 

 ture of poultry has been written by those who had some- 

 thing to sell to the poultryman. At least three fairly 

 reputable poultry papers, which furnish good reading 

 matter in their columns, have snatched at the chance to 

 make money from advertising and selling books of the 

 "secret and system" type. 



One of our more prominent poultry papers said, some 

 time ago, that careful study showed that about two fifths 

 of its readers were women. It is believed that more 

 than half the people actually engaged in raising the 

 chickens are women with their children. The United 

 States government has issued a special Bulletin outlin- 

 ing methods by which Women's Institutes may be organ- 

 ized and conducted. In 1910, 15 states held Institutes 

 for women, and 160 sessions of institutes for young 

 people were held. There are also special Institutes for 

 youths who have left the public school, from the age of 

 14 upward, just at the period when they are choosing 

 their work for life. The teaching is especially intended 

 to show how to make money with farming. 



The Boys' and Girls' Clubs in the public school are 

 different. The government makes the frank statement 

 that the only way to teach some fathers better methods 



