78 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



WEDNESDAY MORNING, JAN. 9, 1901 



Convention called to order. President in the chair. 



POULTRY ON THE DAIKY FARM. 



BY F. M. HUNGER, DE KALB ILL. 



Just why the majority of dairymen do not make poultry pay is not a 

 very hard problem to solve. The failure arises mainly either from in- 

 difference or ignorance of the needs of poultry for profit. 



Now, would any common-sense dairyman start the business with 

 milch cows that in their prime would only turn out 75 pounds of butter 

 per year, and expect them to rustle around the straw stack for feed, and 

 be sheltered from the blasts of winter's snows around the corner of the 

 barn, and make dairying pay? We should say. No. 



Now, the twentieth century hen will improve the 150 eggs record, 

 and 200 eggs per year or over will be the mark. Even greater records 

 than this have been obtained already by the hustling American hen, and 

 217 eggs per year from the thoroughbred White Wyandotte is only parallel 

 with the enterprising dairyman'is cow, the Jersey, that turns out 500 

 pounds of butter per year. 



BREEDS. 



In lespect tobreeds wehavea few words to say. Most people have 

 their fancy about breeds, but all breeds are not the most profitable. 



