. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Acgdst 5, 1899] tElj* gveetrsv mtfc gftwrtemcm* 93 THE FARM. Poultry for Profit. This education not only makes him a better farmer but makes his work a pleasure. No one who has not experienced it can appreciate the satisfaction that comes from seeing a plant, an insect, a bird, or an animal of any They are very few farmers who realizg ho w kind, and to be able to Dims it, tell something much money they get from the paultry that of its life history, and especially to know of are produced on the farm. If they study the its economic value to the farmer. Such edn-
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. Acgdst 5, 1899] tElj* gveetrsv mtfc gftwrtemcm* 93 THE FARM. Poultry for Profit. This education not only makes him a better farmer but makes his work a pleasure. No one who has not experienced it can appreciate the satisfaction that comes from seeing a plant, an insect, a bird, or an animal of any They are very few farmers who realizg ho w kind, and to be able to Dims it, tell something much money they get from the paultry that of its life history, and especially to know of are produced on the farm. If they study the its economic value to the farmer. Such edn- matter up thev will find that the hens in the cation helps the farmer to realize the dignity barnyard pay more for the food they consume of his profession in the front rank of the than almost anything else, in fact, except the worlk's industries where it belongs.âD. H. indispensable horse, whose value is hard to , Otis. compute, being so much depended upon, so says a writer in the Poultry Tribune. The farmer can keep a hen for less than 50 cents a year. Thi3 has been proven time and again. It isapoorsort of a hen that will not produce ten dozBn eg^s a yeir. The average price is about ten cants a dozen. Allowing the cost of ..' , the cows did not appreciate it keeping is 50 cents and that eggs av erage but ten cents a dozen the year through , it will be seen the income is 100 per cent, on the invest- Dalry Notes. WESTCHESTER RACING ASSOCIATION. Race Course, Morris Park, Westchester, N. Y. Office, 173 Fifth Ave., N. Y At the Kansas Agricultural College last Tear they thought to protect their cows from the flies acd the heat of the sun by opening up a thicket at the lower end of the field, but They chos e rather to lie down upoo the lop of the highest knoll in the field, where they could have the benefit of all the breezes that were blowing, mentof keep. If he keeps his pcnltry as he which drove away m08t of thetormenting flies should the average price will be nearer twenty | and
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