. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1894, . glect them and put all their time on the horses and cattle. We all know thatlooking after poultry is not one of the most pleasant jobs for women, and if they lookafter them I think the men should do some of the harder work for them. We heard ofone man who made a failure with his poultry, then turned them over to his wife. Ofcourse, she made them pay a big profit. This selfish fellow then claimed the fowls for thefollowing year, but had worse luck than ever. Thinking that he wasnt made for apoultryman he again give the poultry over to his wife. His f
. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1894, . glect them and put all their time on the horses and cattle. We all know thatlooking after poultry is not one of the most pleasant jobs for women, and if they lookafter them I think the men should do some of the harder work for them. We heard ofone man who made a failure with his poultry, then turned them over to his wife. Ofcourse, she made them pay a big profit. This selfish fellow then claimed the fowls for thefollowing year, but had worse luck than ever. Thinking that he wasnt made for apoultryman he again give the poultry over to his wife. His failure was due to that oneword, carelessness. Many of our farmers say that it doos not pay to keep any more fowls than will pickup the bits, eat the screenings, etc. Well, if poultry pay and they certainly do, farmerscan get the full benefit of their profit, for everything necessary to make poultry profitablegrows or is found on the farm, whereas the poultrvman and others buy their poultry- 58 57 Victoria. Sessional Papers (No. 40). A. 1894. K 57 Victoria. Sessional Papers (No. 40). A. 1894 supplies from dealers and have to pay a higher price. Then look at the range fowls canhave on a farm. Two hundred hens rightly managed will pay the hired mans wages,besides supplying the home need. If any man has malice aforethought for poultry, it is the gardener. But, friendgardener, have you ever thought that if you confine fowls in your plum orchard they willpay for themselves ten times over in the increased yield of plums that you will is a fact that if fowls are confined where the plum trees are that the curculio will notaffect the plums. This point alone is enough to recommend them to any one who has alew plum trees. We know of one man whose land was so poor tint his cherry trees barelyyielded enough for his own use, but in three years time by keeping one hundred hens onevery acre of cherry orchard, this orchard gave him a net profit of over one hundreddollars. Poul
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