Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1917 — NATION NEEDS MORE POULTRY [ARTICLE]

NATION NEEDS MORE POULTRY

Secretary of Agriculture Calls on Industry to Increase Supply. The secretary of agriculture points out the importance of increasing poultry on the farms in the following letter transmitted to the American Poultry association through Mr. Harry M. Lamon: “I hope that the coming meeting of the American Poultry association, which you will attend as a representative of the department, will be highly successful and productive of good results. I need not point out that an adequate . supply of foodstuffs is essential to the effective prosecution of the struggle in which we are engaged. We must not only supply our own needs but we must endeavor to meet in part the needs of the nations with which we are co-operating. The poultry industry can render very great service to. the nation in this emergency. The production of poultry is one of the best means of bringing about a quick increase in the meat supply of the country. In many sections, particularly in the South, the number of fowls on individual farms can and should be very largely increased. If the improved methods which have been worked out by the experts of the state agricultural colleges, the experiment stations, and the department of agriculture were generally adopted, many of the problems confronting poultrymen would be solved or minimized. The department is co-operating with the industry in many directions and stands ready, of course, to render any assistance it can.'*