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Show CHILDREN OF OGDEN AS CHICKEN RAISERS. "Mi.. school bns and girls of thl city who are being encouraged to raise poultry should obtain the weekly week-ly bulletins of the Oregon Agricultural co'legc, which will he sent them on request. Each week there Is a de partment of the bulletin devoted to answering questions on poultry and pointing to successful chicken and other poultry farms The last bulletin mentions a four-acre four-acre poultry farm, the owner of which sold over $6000 worth of poultry poul-try and eggs last year Foil porous and light, which Is not pood farming land, will make a good chicken ranch. Our youngsters, with more than 100 vacant acre lots and many smaller plots of ground at their disposal, have a rare opportunity to demonstrate demon-strate that they know how to raise chickens, and, n addition, make more than spending money. These little beginnings often plav !an important part in the lives of boys and girls We know a boy whose father, though poor, bought him a cow years ago The youngster was given the care of the animal, and the money he received from the milk and cream he sold went to buv another cow, and then another The boy was taught industry and economy by the responsibility and the revenue that came to him with that first cow We were questioning a friend only yesterday yes-terday as to how this boy of ears I had succeeded. The answer wan. 'He Is a very wealths cattleman. !(. has BOO or 600 head of itlc and is worth $50,000 or $00,000. W e predict that more than one bJ will date the beginning of ins success in life to the chicken-raising Instructions Instruc-tions and practical tests about to be made a part of the school activities oi the children of Ogden. |