Inter-Mountain Farmer | 1903-01-01 | Page 1 | The Value of the American Hen

The Value of the American Hen. The growth of tho poultry Industry In this country li one of the wonders of the time As a producer of wealth the American Amer-ican hen Is a marvel To Illustrate the Increased earning powers of this Indus-tr'ous Indus-tr'ous autocrat of the barmard. It may bo stated that In Missouri, during the list fiscal ear. the sum derived from the sale of poultry and ecus ran J17(X ahead of all tho other products of the Btato combined com-bined The totnls show that tho old hen neglected and left by the farmer to forage for-age for herself while he detotod his attention at-tention to the field crops, outstripped them nil. Including corn, wheat oats, flax scil, timothy seed, clover seed, millet seed cano seed castor beans, cotton seed, tobacco, broom corn, buy and straw. Leslie s Monthly.