. Dollars and sense in the poultry business ... Poultry industry. American Poultry School, Kansas City, J. A. HANSON Corvallis, Oregon acres, one mile from the Oregon Agricultural College, where he started the "College View" Poultry Farm. With a beginning of $1, capital he raised 600 good pullets, and after seven years' work and study on his own farm has in- creased his property, holdings, and wealth to a value of more than $40,, outside of earning a liberal living expense for the entire time. Beginning with the Oregon Agricultural College strain of White Leghorns, h
. Dollars and sense in the poultry business ... Poultry industry. American Poultry School, Kansas City, J. A. HANSON Corvallis, Oregon acres, one mile from the Oregon Agricultural College, where he started the "College View" Poultry Farm. With a beginning of $1, capital he raised 600 good pullets, and after seven years' work and study on his own farm has in- creased his property, holdings, and wealth to a value of more than $40,, outside of earning a liberal living expense for the entire time. Beginning with the Oregon Agricultural College strain of White Leghorns, he built up a strain that have averaged more than 200 eggs for four consecutive years and 221 eggs as a flock average for the past two years. More than this, he won the iTrst All-North- west Contest at Pullman, Washington, and has been a winner in every Contest in which he has made entries, having made entries in various Contests, in Washington, British Co- lumbia, the All-Northwest, and the Califor- nia International Egg Laying Contests. At the present time he has three pens in various Contests, five pullets laying 122 eggs dur- ing November and winning prizes for the greatest value of eggs laid during that month. At the present time Mr. Hanson owns the largest poultry farm and the largest hatchery in the state of Oregon Can any one be in a better position to ren- der service to our students than are these successful men who are not theorists but are actually operating the greatest poultry farms in the world. AVALTER HOGAN Special Advisor on Selection for Ejifg Produetlon Orij^inator World's Best System Selecting Layers MR. HOGAN assisted Mr. Quisenberry in preparing one of the' lessons offered by this School. This knowledge was so new, so revolutionary, so far-reach- ing, so conclusive, that it set all the Govern- ment and State poultry authorities and ex- perts to work on the idea. It set them to in- vestigating and they finally found that the best layers in a flock could be
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