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Show WE SHOULD RAISE MORE POULTRY If poultry production is doubled next year, as Is readily possible with this city and country co-operation, wo will have 6,500,000,000 pounds of meat food, In the form of poultry and eggs. This will release almost that many pounds of other meats, pork and beef, for our armies in Europe, and 'for the armies and civilian ci-vilian populations of the Allies. If wo do not produce this amount of poultry wo may find ourselves short of meat food to just, that extent. ex-tent. It is a patriotic duty of the utmost ut-most importance that every farmer and every person in town do his part In producing this Increase of poultry, poul-try, which will help to win tho war. It Is also a profitable proposition for tho average individual. Both town and farm families will produce, at its lowest cost, meat, food for their own use, and, by putting up eggs for winter use will further reduce living expenses. The poultry will be handled as a by-product of the farm and back yard, each flock being largo enough in numbers to utilize the scraps and waste from the kitchen and the pick ups around the place, supplemented by some feed. But no fiock should bo out of proportion to tho ground space and kitchen wastage, not so large that feed wMl becomo, relatively, relative-ly, too costly an item. Tho idea Is not only to Increase onr poultry pro duction, but to do It economically; to do it at very Ilttlo cost, by turning turn-ing the waste of kitchens and back I yards all over the United States into in-to chicken and eggs. Fowls aro tho only medium thru which a good deal of this waste can be transformed into a valuablo food product. |