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Show WHY IS POULTRY VALUABLE7 Professor Gilbert of Canada Glvea Eight Good Reasons In Answer to Pertinent Question. Why Is poultry valuable to the farmer? Is a question asked by hundreds hun-dreds of tillers of the soil who usually usu-ally keep but a few chickens, and these a mixture of all breede. Professor Profes-sor Gilbert of Ottawa, Canada, gives the following reasons In answer to this pertinent question: 1. Because he ought, by their means to convert a great deal of the waste of his farm into money in the shape of eggs and chickens for market. 2. Because, with Intelligent management, manage-ment, they ought to be all-year revenue reve-nue producers, with the exception of possibly two monthe during the moulting moult-ing season. 3. Because the poultry will yield him a quicker return for the capital Invested In-vested than any of the other departments depart-ments of agriculture. 4. Because the manure from the poultry house will make a valuable composite for use In either vegetable garden or orchard. The birds themselves, them-selves, IT allowed, will destroy all injurious in-jurious insect life. 6. Because, while cereals and fruits can only be successfully grown in certain cer-tain sections, poultry can be raised' for table use or layers of eggs in any and every part of the country, ana at all seasons. 6. Because poultry raising Is an employment em-ployment in which the farmer's wifs can engage and leave him free to afr tend to other departments of fans work. 1. Because it will bring the best results re-sults in the shape of new-laid eggs during the winter season, when th farmer has the most time on his hands. ( 8. Because to start poultry on the farm requires very little capitaL |
