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ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



capita, the country will do much better than that, for on nearly all farms 

 they are used in the greatest profusion, and must largely exceed the city 

 consumption. 



Galen Wilson, in "Farm and Fireside" requested an old crippled sol- 

 dier, engaged in poultry raising, to give his views, and received the fol- 

 lowing: "Eggs are always cash; tLey are ready for market the minute- 

 laid, and the sooner they are sent to market the better. They require no 

 cultivation, pruning or harvesting, but are at once in salable condition. 

 With plenty of eggs on the farm there is a host of good things in the 

 kitchen and money in the family purse. Gathering up eggs is like picking 

 up dimes and dollars. Great is the hen that produces them. When 

 everything else is 1 dull in winter the Qgg basket has wonderfully helped 

 out many a poor farmer. The crops may be poor, the provisions low, the 

 family cow dry, with a long wait for the next growing season, but the 

 hen comes up smiling, and is ready to get a pound of tea or a sack of 

 flour. If treated well, she will respond as readily when the snow is on 

 the ground as when the fields are green. She is a friend to the rich and 

 poor alike." 



As stated above, the farm is the place of all others where poultry cul- 

 ture can be made the most profitable. It is the place of all others where 

 it can obtain its greatest development at the least care and expense. In 

 no other places are the facilities for improvement in fowls so great. In 

 the development of speed in the horse; in the development of the produc- 

 tive powers of the cow, and in the fattening of beeves and swine, won- 

 derful results have been achieved. Breeding for speed, for farm, for 

 color, for fat, butter, milk and cheese in farm stock has been reduced to a 

 science, and the results of the work of poultry fanciers is as susceptible 

 of improvement in breeding for form, for type in f ether and marking as 

 any kind of farm stock, when the same rules are applied in their man- 

 agement. The results of the work of the poultry fancier in the improve- 

 ment of poultry in recent years has been marvelous. The work has been 

 accomplished at the expense of great care and patience and accompanied 



