. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. 606 Missouri Agricultural Report. quired the first step in the education of being courteous. Chil- dren, Uke grown-up people, acquire ease and gracefulness of manner by coming in contact with others. The friendly col- lision rubs off the corners and polishes the rough places, until the child forgets to be rude and smiles and looks pleasant when things go wrong. I think in the home which entertains a good deal the children acquire a desirable deference to others. In fact, t
. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. 606 Missouri Agricultural Report. quired the first step in the education of being courteous. Chil- dren, Uke grown-up people, acquire ease and gracefulness of manner by coming in contact with others. The friendly col- lision rubs off the corners and polishes the rough places, until the child forgets to be rude and smiles and looks pleasant when things go wrong. I think in the home which entertains a good deal the children acquire a desirable deference to others. In fact, the entertaining in the home might be a part of the cour- tesies of that home. One of the viewpoints that is not always put before children is that they can look at it from a selfish standpoint. Other people will have a much better opinion of the child who is polite, and the child himself will think so much better of himself. Usually courteous children are fairly good children. POULTRY SECTION. (Mrs. R. Lee Alford, Vandalla, ). The poultry section of the Home Makers' Conference is a new venture, this being the first year, and great in- terest was manifested at the meeting. We were especially favored by having with us: T. E. Quisenberry, director of the Missouri Poultry Experiment Sta- tion, Mountain Grove, Mo.; Judge E. C. Branch, member of the revision com- mittee of the American Poultry Asso- ciation, and H. L. Kempster, professor of poultry husbandry. University of Mis- souri, each of whom gave able lectures advocating better methods and greater attention devoted to farm poultry. Interesting papers were also given by Mrs. James A Staples of Lamonte, Mrs. Scott Cunningham of Palmyra, Mrs. E. M. Scott of Lathrop and Miss Martha Blume of New Franklin, and others. The poultry section will undertake an egg laying contest in the homes of the farm women of the State under the direction of the chairman, Mrs. R. Lee Alford of Vandalia. Professor Kempster in his lecture compre
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