88 ILLINOIS STATE DAIPwYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



Mr. Gurler: My idea is this gentlemen: Is to select a man and give 

 him the poultry, that to be his work, with the exception of helping with 

 the milking. If I could take the poultry business in with the milk I would 

 like it. That is my line of thought. 



Mr. Dietz: I noticed this morning at the breakfast table that they 

 did not have any eggs. Is there any way of getting fresh eggs in the 

 winter time? 



Mr. Noyes: Keep nothing but the business hens and take care of them 

 as you do of your cows. Do the same with your hens. 



Q. Do you believe in artificial heat? 



A. No sir. 



Bluff Jersey: I have knowledge; from several years' experience of 

 carrying poultry with my Jersey herd. I have not tried to keep 1000, but 

 some with the pig pen and some with the creamery. I have made a spec- 

 ialty of fine eggs. In distributing butter to our customers we also had 

 our eggs and we guaranteed every egg to be under a week of age in the 

 ■winter, and three days in the summer We have an incubator and would 

 not do without it. I have two incubators at the present time. We han- 

 dle our poultry in exactly the same way this gentleman says, and expect 

 to have eggs for our customers all the time. We realize over the market, 

 and it requires only ordinary skill to carry on a small plant of that 

 Mnd. A man has to be pretty careful. If Mr. Gurler has a man whom 

 he can trust he can do for the poultry. He can do much better in the 

 business, that with his dairy. I w would not advise Mr. Gurler to cany 

 chickens like sheep, but carry just a happy medium and it will be a nice 

 source of revenue. The buttermilk and sour milk are very essential in 

 men a business. I breed Jerseys and have bred them for eighteen years. 



Mr. Monrad: Do you think it would be practical to ask a man to 

 attend to milking and have the care of the poultry? Don't you think a 

 man's work would be interfered with, with milking morning and even- 

 ing? Don't you think it would be better to give him the care of the hens 

 and nothing else, or the milking and nothing else? 



Bluff Jersey: There is one of my family at the head of every de- 

 partment. The one at the head of this department is 13 years old. He 



