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PRACTICAL POULTRY PRODUCTION 



1. Winniig a prize of a setting of eggs or a pen of fowls offered 

 by a local poultryman to the members writing the best compositions 

 on some phase of poultry work. 



2. Have the members take charge of the home flock, and, as a 

 reward for the attention given, receive a portion of the eggs produced. 

 From the sale of these eggs the member can secure enough money to 

 purchase several settings of eggs from a standard-bred flock, or a pen 

 of standard-bred fowls. 



3. In numerous instances poultrymen have co-operated with 

 members in supplying them without cost 50 to 100 eggs, with theunder- 

 standing that the" poultry breeder is to receive in return two matured 

 fowls hatched from each lot of 50 eggs given to the members. 



Figure 295,- 



-A poultry club exhibit held in connection with a regular 

 poultry show. 



4. A similar plan is that of a poultryman's lending to a member a 

 pen of fowls during the breeding season, the eggs from which are to be 

 used for hatching. Upon reaching maturity, 3 to 5 birds hatched from 

 these eggs are to be returned to the breeder, together with the original 

 pen. 



5. A progressive club might have in connection with its school a 

 poultry plant planned and built by the members. Several pens of 

 fowls could then be purchased or donated by a public-spirited poultry- 

 man, and these fowls taken care of by the members. Thus the club 

 would not only have an opportunity of carrying out a community 

 object lesson, but the eggs produced could be taken to their respective 

 homes to serve as a foundation for a standard-bred flock of their own. 



6. Plans may be arranged whereby the merchants of the town 

 would donate several hundred eggs from standard-bred stock, and the 



