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Exceptionally good stock, well fed and well cared for, will produce a 

 profitable yield of eggs, and :■ quality of meat and eggs that are fit for 

 human consumption: which niucli of the stuff in every market is not. 



Every poultry paper or magazine that seeks to instruct its subscribers 

 in the art of properly breeding and maintaining poultry is a public 

 benefactor, and should be universally recognized as such. 



Different methods of keeping hens represent different individual qual- 

 ities in poultry keepers ; for the man is always father to the method, 

 (iet any method and a man that fits it together and financial success will 

 follow. The misfits will fail every time. 



As different men tit different methods so do different liens. The trap 

 nest points out those hen-, that tit the man and his methods. 



Some people buy, at a big price, poultrx appliances that cause much 

 actual loss, and others that are of no practical use to them; yet other 

 people may find those same appliances both useful and profitable. 



To wildly endorse, without good reason, every new idea, or to as 

 wildly condemn it are essentially the same thing as far as the novice is 

 concerned. One is as likely to mislead him as the oilier. 



I believe in cleanliness, comfort, convenience, and all improved 

 methods and appliances in so far as any individual can make them of 

 profitable or pleasurable use. All such, when they are worthy, should 

 be generally recommended without regard to the amount of spare that 

 their promoters are able to buy in the advertising column*. 



F am looking for poultry food of good quality, yet the Chemist-Writer 

 who examines such foods and writes about them in a poultry paper can- 

 not mention a good one by name --for it would be improper.*' What 

 folly! One would think that the man or firm who sells goods was a 

 criminal who must be confined to the advertising columns for life and 

 only allowed in sight of the public when he pays for the privelegc. 

 Then he can rob them ad libitum if he like*. 



We should not expect editors to discriminate between different arti- 

 cles that are worthy but when a contributor finds that one firm's meat 

 scraps are good he should be free to say so for the benefit of the one 

 reader in a thousand that may want to know. 



Let some spiteful individual find fault with some specific article that 

 is not advertised "overjts head" and he will be accorded a hearing in 

 some mediums, benefiting no one and perhaps injuring many. The 

 more diplomatic his language the more easily it will pass, and the more 

 harm it will do. 



When a man produces a strain of fowls, an individual bird, a food, 

 a condition powder, a louse destroyer, an appliance, or conceives an 

 idea, that is superior or useful he is in a position to benefit his fellows 

 and we should, on general principles, credit him with honest aims until 

 we find otherwise. 



It is quite rare that criticism does not diminish in proportion as the 

 size of the ad., or the amount of personal favor that the advertiser en- 

 joys, increases. 



This is almost universally recognized among our people to such an 

 extent that honest endorsements and valuable and instructive --write 

 ups" are condemned at sight by a large proportion of readers. 



The average subscriber to a poultry journal may lie a child in poultry 

 raising but he i.» not a child in other respects. One journal promises 

 us all that we ought to know? Whal is it that we ought not to know:-' 

 Whv should we not know it? 



