. A day at the Missouri State Poultry Experiment Station, Mountain Grove, Mo., with a brief discussion of the possibilities of the poultry industry of Missouri. Poultry. POULTRY EXPERIMENT STATION. 9. POSSIBILITIES OF THE POULTRY INDUSTRY IN MISSOURI. The Missouri hen and her product are the pride of nearly 300,000 Mis- souri housewives, and of twice that many country- bred boys and girls. The cackling songs of the morning hours are sweet music to these queens in Missouri's farm homes, and the product from the poultry yard is their bank account. The poultry business is not a "get-rich-qui
. A day at the Missouri State Poultry Experiment Station, Mountain Grove, Mo., with a brief discussion of the possibilities of the poultry industry of Missouri. Poultry. POULTRY EXPERIMENT STATION. 9. POSSIBILITIES OF THE POULTRY INDUSTRY IN MISSOURI. The Missouri hen and her product are the pride of nearly 300,000 Mis- souri housewives, and of twice that many country- bred boys and girls. The cackling songs of the morning hours are sweet music to these queens in Missouri's farm homes, and the product from the poultry yard is their bank account. The poultry business is not a "get-rich-quick ; We wish to discourage any such fallacy. But the reason for the greatness of the poultry products of Missouri is because of the fact that practically every farm has poultry upon it, and this poultry has proven profitable to the farmer in most instances because, of Missouri's natural advantages as a poultry State—its soil, its climate, its markets, its grains, its trans- portation facilities and its people. Missouri is also great in extent, being larger than eight of the Eastern and New England States, all combined, but at the same time it produces annually millions of dollars worth of eggs and poultry in excess of its own needs. Practically all of this comes from the general farm, and but little of it from commercial egg and poultry farms. While such farms, if properly managed, could come as near succeeding here as elsewhere, yet we must say that our mil- lions come from farm poultry and not from poultry farms. Missouri Soil.—No State has soil or land better adapted to poultry raising than Missouri. We have much of that rich black loam and sandy gravelly soil. Most of our State is a rolling prairie which is well drained, and we have the beautiful Ozarks in the southern portion of the State. Our land is reasonable in price, and upon a large portion of the farms there are springs and running water which add to its natural advantages for poultry. Missouri s Cli
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