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Show A WORD TO THB FARMER. Obo Who t-Bts More AlUolloo roattry Thaw (a Milk l-resloatloss. When farmers will thoroughly on.lnr itnnd thst thero Is more money In the raising of poultry and eggs for market than there la by gruwlng other crops, they will find thiiniBnlvra un n better f.aitlng for n-dnuiug "that mortgage" and make life and work mora agree, bio. An eirellvut illustration Is given of this by tdltor Drovenstcdt, who for a number of years rau a ponltry, tullk aud geueral farm In (range comity, N. V., near whero ho la located now. Ho anys: "Homo eight yenra ago, when wa enjoyed en-joyed the bracing air of a mountain farm not many mllus from Newburg, the fresh egg problem was In the same uiisnlisfu.it, ,rjr condition. Wo suld a great many eggs to customers lu the city of New York. Our own flocka would not supply the demand; consequently wo were obliged to scour the country fur 110 mil. st around ns for "hun fruit ' It w as not an easy task to seenro Ihe very twal article, notwithstanding tho fact that we paid cnnsidural.ly above the market price for eggs. After securing all the crenrn nf tho good eotgs, and assuming other egg buyers did tho same, what ooold one exicot to find lu Una lino al the country grocery sioiof Tb answor is obvlooa, "The oonilnnal production of milk on every form snttuulo for the purie has Injured tlio milk business. Furmera have beoomo machines. Thoy cure to know ouly the nuuilr uf quarto uf milk tlwy cau pnalur-e nt the cheapeat lihle coat to soil at a ruinous price, au to BjN'uk. They fail to raiao other crops, or handle other stock, bocanso Ihey think they huvo not tho time, and prefer ofteu to buy what they should raise. Wo have been there, and kuow wbul wa are talk-lug talk-lug abuut. The day chut wo paid mure attention to poultry and leas to milk production was Ibo day uf emauclluition with us." |