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ill almost any other farm scheme, because of its practical 

 freedom from the ahead}' mentioned drawbacks of all 

 other crops. 



It is a money crop, because there is always a fair de- 

 mand for Q^^^ and poultry at a fair price. Indeed, there 

 is an excellent market for eggs in November and Decem- 

 ber at an unfair price — or so it seems to the buyer. And 

 when one has learned to get a good q^^ yield in these 

 months, he is not lucky, but capable. 



Sam Walter Foss amusingly depicts the man who has 

 the hen fever, and who finally mortgages his farm to allay 

 it. But prize-winners and fancy stock only made it burn 

 the fiercer, and he died and left behind only the hens to 

 scratch on his grave. 



Personally I do not advocate fancy poultry, unless one 

 keeps hens for fun, and owns B. and M. stock. True, a 

 few people make it profitable, but where one succeeds, 

 twenty do not. But a flock of plain, common-sense hens, 

 thoroughbred, if you will, but surely bred from healthy, 

 fine-laying stock, raised for profit and kept for profit, with 

 the same care, methods and treatment accorded any other 

 farm crop, is, I am assured, the crop of all others for the 

 discouraged farmer, who is yet hunting for the money 

 crop to suit his farm. 



Annie L. Rogers. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON TREADWELL 



FARM. 



Crops grown upon the farm this year are 17 tons of 

 English hay, 10 tons of meadow hay, 10 tons of bedding 

 hay, 5 tons of Japan millet, 10 tons of Hungarian millet, 

 2 tons of oat fodder, 1 1-2 tons of lowen, 360 bushels po- 

 tatoes, 8 bbls. squash, 5 bbls. apples. 



