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a great deal more than this article contains, we must secure national Legis- 

 lation to tax heavily all imitations and frauds of dairy products. 



POULTRY ON THE FARM. 



W. W. NOYES, PROPHETSTOWN, ILL. 



This organization is strictly a dairyman's organization, the para- 

 mount interest of which is the dairying interest, and the object of the 

 association is to so perfect its system and promote its interest as to ob- 

 tain to its greatest possibilities. 



But however perfect and profitable it may be in itself, could it not be 

 made still more profitable without detracting from its perfection, by link- 

 ing to it congenial interests which in themselves are sources of revenue on 

 the farm? 



One of these subordinate interests is swine feeding. Now why does 

 the dairyman always feed more or less hogs, when his agricultural pro- 

 fession is dairying? Simply because the hog adds to the dairy pro- 

 ceeds by utilizing the refuse of the dairy and converts it into money, 

 which, added to the dairy proceeds, makes more income from the same 

 outlay. 



Now if hog feeding can go hand in hand with the dairy and make 

 that industry pay better, why could not poultry culture also be added and 

 pay proportionately twice as well, since no one branch of farm industry 

 is so well suited to poultry culture as is the dairy, and one pound of 

 poultry is worth two pounds of hog, and it takes less feed value to make 

 it, for the hen would economize much that would not be utilized, either by 

 the cow or the hog. 



But, since you cannot count your chickens till they are hatched, nor 

 sell them until they are grown, the question is how to hatch, and how to 

 raise them after they are hatched. 



