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tory is to be erected there next season to manufacture beet 
sugar on a large scale. The company is already formed, and 
I understand that many acres of beets are contracted for. 
Mr. Powell has referred to what the doctor said relating to the 
fruit, grain, stock and dairy departments. It would richly pay 
any of you dairymen especially to visit the Geneva station, if 
only to see the excellent herd of cattle of seven leading breeds 
which are there under experiment. And let me exhort you to 
send for the bulletins and study the cattle feeding experiments, 
for you can not help being profited by so doing. I wish I had an 
hour to tell you farmers what they are doing for the poultry inter- 
est up there. We must, before we can appreciate what these 
poultry experiments amount to, know that the farm hen is a 
great factor in our agriculture. At a recent meeting of the but- 
ter, cheese and egg dealers of the country, statistics were pre-— 
sented showing that the poultry sold in 1891 amounted to more 
than $1,000,000 and the eggs $200,000,000 more, or $300,000,000 
for the poultry product of that year. Aside from this we are 
importing nearly $3,000,000 worth of eggs each year. Now to be 
brief, the average cost to the farmer to raise a chicken is about 
nine cents a pound, as near as I can figure it, but at the station 
they have raised broilers for five and one-half cents per pound. 
Their bulletins tell you how you can do it, too. At the recent 
poultry show at Madison Square Garden the Geneva station was 
awarded the first prize for their splendid exhibit of capons, which 
exhibit received most marked attention from all in attendance at 
this grand exhibition. The feeding of oyster shells to help fur- 
nish the shell of the egg has been carefully experimented on, and, 
as the shell is about ten per cent of the whole egg, you can 
readily see how necessary it is that we know whether this form 
of lime is,gof value or not. The experiments which they have 
made regarding the feeding of clover hay to fowls are, I think, 
the most valuable to poultry breeders and farmers who keep 
fowls of any poultry experiments that have been made. I know 
many breeders who took up this line of feeding as soon as the 
station recommended it, and they have saved hundreds of dol- 
lars by doing so. When we remember that practically no scien-_ 
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