74 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



food of a suitable kind, and in every way exercise such care as will insure 

 the greatest comfort to your fowls and in return the law of reciprocity 

 will be fully carried out, and they cannot help a liberal response in the 

 way of eggs and chickens to the generous treatment accorded them. 

 Unlike nearly every other farm product that is cultivated only in certain 

 sections, poultry is susceptible of culture throughout the land. All classes 

 of people participate in its benefactions. The growth of the demand for 

 poultry and its products insures liberal markets. It is one of the most in- 

 viting fields of all farm culture, and to the dairyman who intelligently 

 incorporates it as a branch os his business, it offers the grandest and 

 most fruitful possibilities. 



The wide-awake hustling people of Kansas, through their State Board 

 of Agriculture, express the following opinion of the hen, entitled: 



THE KANSAS HEN. 



We have read of Maud, on a summer day, 



Who raked barefooted, the new-mown hay; 



We have read of the maid in the early morn, 



Who milked the cow with the crumpled horn. 



And we've read the lays that the poets sing 



Of the rustling corn and the flowers of stpring, 



But of all the lays of tongue or pen 



There's naught like the lay of the Kansas Hen. 



Long, long before Maud rakes her hay 



The Kansas hen has begun to lay. 



And ere the milkmaid stirs a peg, 



The hen is up and has dropped her egg: 



The corn must rustle and the flowers spring 



If they hold their own with the barn yard ring. 



If Maud is) needing a hat and gown 



She doesn't hustle her hay to town, 



But goes to the store and obtains her suit 



