. The Farm-poultry. ould eagerly seek to obtain theadvantage allowable under the president aUo stated he had some exhei i- ence in collecting annual dues. Such experi-ence bad convinced him it was more troubleto collect such dues than the amount obtainedwould be worth. He wished alsoto call atten-tion to the fact that the low membership fee,with annual dues, had been once tried by thisassociation and discarded. •? The motion to adopt Mr. Hecks amend-ment was [lut and lost. Mr. Holzhauser moved the adoption ofthe Shannon amendment, and the motion wasseconded and carried. •? After
. The Farm-poultry. ould eagerly seek to obtain theadvantage allowable under the president aUo stated he had some exhei i- ence in collecting annual dues. Such experi-ence bad convinced him it was more troubleto collect such dues than the amount obtainedwould be worth. He wished alsoto call atten-tion to the fact that the low membership fee,with annual dues, had been once tried by thisassociation and discarded. •? The motion to adopt Mr. Hecks amend-ment was [lut and lost. Mr. Holzhauser moved the adoption ofthe Shannon amendment, and the motion wasseconded and carried. •? After the adoption of the Shannon resolu-tion Mr. Heck stated that he wished to callattention to the fact that the resolution wasnot even read in the open meeting, ami that itwas therefore passed without proper consider-ation. After a motion tendering a vote of thanks tothe exposition management, the poultrymenof the south, and the citizens of Charleston,had prevaileil, an adjournment was taken. Poultry in HERE ARE signs of atremendous develop-ment in the poultrybusiness in Canaila, andthe advance in a year ortwo will be truly sur-prising. This is in greatmeasure due to the fact that the ministersof agriculture for the Dominion and theProvince of Ontario—and iu a lesser degreethe ministers iu the other provinces—havetaken up the matter in earnest and furnishedthe funds for extensive experiments andcarrying the gospel of good poultry tothe people, mainly through the medium offarmers institutes, and it is a fact worthnoting that whereas, up till it year or twoago an audience of farmers was somewhatimpatient of hen talk, they will now listenattentively, and the discussions are usually asanimated as on any other of farming. Prof. 1. ^y. Robertson, Dominion commis-sioner of agriculture, has been studying theBritish markets, and has introduced the ideaof special fattening, establishing experimenialstations at various points for feeding chickensin crates, and crammi
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