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Show BLIND MAN POULTRY FANCIER Missourian Has Made Success of the Work, Despite Handicap Wrich Would Seem Insurmountable. Blind Edward Jones of Jefferson City, Mo., has made a record in keeping keep-ing poultry which many who have eyes have not equaled. Moving among his birds, which seem to understand how he is handicapped, and guided only by his sense of touch, he performs per-forms his daily work. He has built his own poultry house and brood coops, and has hatched and raised all his chicks. Blindness does not prevent pre-vent him from culling his flock. The birds not intended to be kept are marketed mar-keted as broilers, and the others are kept for the production of winter eggs. Mr. Jones attended every poultry I meeting held in his section last fall. He is now trying to organize a poultry club for blind people, and the home j. demonstration agent in the county . has volunteered to read to the mem-." mem-." bers the publications on poultry sent i from the United States department of 1 agriculture. |