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Show POULTRY AND EGGS. In a poultry journal before us is a lecture delivered by Professor James Dryden in Boze-man, Boze-man, Mont., last March. He was then in the Montana Agricultural College. He is now in the same capacity at the East Aurora school in New York. The lecture is filled with useful and interesting in-teresting facts regarding poultry and the losses and. profits of the poultry business. On this subject sub-ject he says a hen is good for $2 profit for the first year. He thinks no hen should be kept beyond be-yond two years of age. He cites many cases of great profit in poultry raising and makes the astonishing as-tonishing statement that in the little city of Peta-luma, Peta-luma, Cal. Mr. Dryden took the figures from the shipping books of 1903 that year sold 3,407,-334 3,407,-334 dozen eggs and 32,532 dozen poultry, and last year these figures were increased by 86,000 dozen eggs and 750 dozen chickens, and the eggs and poultry yielded Petaluma more than $1,000,000. Incidentally, Mr. Dryden mentions that the hen in the United States does an annual business of $300,000,000. We believe that only the cotton, cot-ton, corn and wheat crops exceed the industrious ' hen. By the way, there are a great many little farms in Utah, a great many idle boys and girls. Each t , 1 one of them could attend to 500 chickens, and still we suspect that the eggs and chickens imported into this state annually amount to quite $.1,000,-000. $.1,000,-000. Montana imports more than that amount, and Utah' has more people than Montana, and they nearly all love eggs and chickens. Utah is I not a very thrifty state after all. |