84 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Don't attempt to keep turkeys if you have near neighbors, for your 

 turkeys and your neighbor's garden will not assimilate. Do not attempt 

 to keep geese or ducks, unless you Lave a suitable place for them. Go slow 

 and don't attempt to keep but one variety. 



Success in any business, and especially the poultry business, is like 

 going upstairs. Begin at the bottom end go up one step at a time, for if 

 you attempt to make it at two jumps, you will invariably lack wind for the 

 last jump. 



Is there danger of over-production? The United States last year im- 

 ported 13,000,000 dozen eggs at a cost of $2,000,000. The poultry and egg: 

 produce of the United States last year was $560,000,000; cotton, $410,000,000; 

 hay, $436,000,000; dairy, $254,000,000; excess of poultry over dairy, $306,- 

 000,000. 



While the poultry industry is laiger than any other, it is the only agri- 

 cultural product we do not export, as our entire yield is far short of home 

 demand, and with our rapid increase in city population, and our cold 

 storage facilities, it will remain so indefinitely. Besides more eggs are 

 used now in manufacturing purposes than war: the entire consumption 

 forty years ago. 



New York alone absorbed $45,000,000 in this proddct last year. The 

 western farmer knows how to handle horses and cattle, but system and 

 economy in the culture of hogs and poultiy he has yet to learn. 



DISCUSSION. 



Mr. Johnson: May I ask where you got your statistics in regard to 

 the dairy. 



A. : Fram the Chicago Poultry Journal. 



Mr. Johnson: You believe what you have read that $254,000,00l : was 

 the dairy product in thy Unite a States last year. You believe th&t? 



A.: I don't know. I suppose it is. 



Q.: Do you know what the dairy product of this state amounts to? 



A. : I am on a poultry paper. 



