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Show BETTER POULTRY. Farmers' wives formerly looked upon the poultry flock as merely a means of better providing for the family table, with possibly a little ; "pin money" from the surplus chick-' chick-' ens and eggs. For these purposes it !was not thought that any particular care was necessary in the selection of breeds or in the general handling of the flock. But that idea is fast being discarded discard-ed and the thrifty farm homemaker now looks upon her poultry as an important im-portant source of cash income. She ! has found that it is little more trouble trou-ble to have a big flock than it is to I have a small flock, and the big flock i is a money-maker, j Not only does she have larger flocks nowadays, but she has better I stock and employs scientific methods in her poultry raising. More atten-. atten-. tion is given to proper feeding and j sanitation; poor layers are culled put; infertile eggs are produced and ! they are marketed clean, graded ac-i ac-i cording to size and color. I A good-sized flock of pure-bred j chickens affords one of the most de-j de-j pendable sources of farm income. |