No. 4.] MODERN POULTRY CULTURE. Ill 



are hardy, and I think they have qualities that are better. 



I refer to Mr. B . Perhaps he can tell something 



about it. 



Mr. B . The fowl is the Golden Sundown. It is 



bred in this way : I take a light Brahma, Plymouth Rock, 

 Brown Leghorn and the Game. I have been breeding them 

 for thirteen years. They are good layers, are hardy and a 

 good table fowl. I came to the conclusion that I could get 

 a breed by a combination of the four best breeds I knew of. 

 I thought I could bring out what I have brought out. 



Mr. W. B. Barton (of Dalton). We have Dr. Twitchell 

 with us, and I would like to hear from him. 



Dr. Twitchell. Somehow, Mr. Chairman, ladies and 

 gentlemen, when I get into an audience where I find as 

 many " hen" men as there are here to-day 1 feel as I sup- 

 pose a good Methodist does when he gets into a good warm 

 camp meeting, — very much at home. I have thoroughly 

 enjoyed the valuable suggestions presented to us by the 

 speaker this afternoon. I enjoy the discussion which fol- 

 lows, and the questions which are presented from the 

 audience. This poultry industry is a many-sided industry. 

 They tell the story down in Maine of a Sunday-school 

 teacher who numbered the questions in a catechism and 

 gave each boy in her class one question, and told them 

 to prepare themselves to answer the questions at the con- 

 cert. They learned the answers, and when the time came 

 for the concert she got the children on the platform, and 

 did not notice that boy Number 1 was missing. She said, 

 "Johnnie, who made you?" Nobody answered. She re- 

 peated the question, and boy Number 2 said, "Please 

 marm, I was made out of the dust of the earth. The boy 

 that God made had a stomach-ache and could not come." 

 Yie are apt to think we can answer one question only in 

 this industry. We look at one side of the picture and see 

 it from our own point of view. I thought of that as we 

 have been discussing this question. The questions would 

 indicate to me the fact that the questioner favors some one 

 breed. The breeds are just what men make them. We 

 have taken them and built on them, and out of them in the 

 years have come the many breeds which are to-day so 



