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of caring for poultry. Ills fowls begin to assume an indi- 

 viduality in his sight and in his thought. Each succeeding 

 year he becomes more adept in anticipating the quality of 

 the chickens he will hatch, even though he may make no 

 progress in counting them before they are hatched. Nor is 

 the use of what he gains by intelligent efforts in breeding- 

 poultry limited to his work with poultry. In learning to 

 work with the principles of breeding, he is providing him- 

 self with a better equipment for every other branch of his 

 farm work, for the same general principles of production 

 run all through the animal and vegetable kingdoms. 



