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Show WHY IS POULTRY VALUABLE? Professor Gilbert of Canada Gives Eight Good Reasons In Answer to Pertinent Question. Why Is -poultry valuable to the farmer? is a question asked by hundreds hun-dreds of tillers of the Foil who usually usu-ally keep but a few chickens, and these a mixture of all breeds. Professor Profes-sor Gilbert of Ottawa, Canada, gives the following reasons in answer to this pertinent question: 1. Because he ought, by their means to convert a great deal of the waste ot his farm Into money in the shape of eggs and chickens for market. 2. Because, with intelligent manage-' ment, they ought to be all-year revenue reve-nue producers, with the exception of possibly two months during the moulting moult-ing season. 3. Because the poultry will yield him a quicker return for the capital Invested In-vested than any of the other departments depart-ments of agriculture. 4. Because the manure from the poultry house will make a valuable composite for UBe in either vegetable garden or orchard. The birds themselves, them-selves, if allowed, will destroy all injurious in-jurious insect life. 5. Because, while cereals and frulta can only be successfully grown' in certain cer-tain sections, poultry can be raised for table use or layers of eggs In any and every part of the country, and at all seasons. 6. Because poultry raising Is an employment em-ployment in which the farmer's wife can engage and leave him free to attend at-tend to other departments of farm work. 7. Because it will bring the best results- In the shape of new-laid eggs during the winter season, when the farmer has the most time on his hands. 8. Because to start poultry on the farm requires very little capital. |