Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1879 — POULTRY DEPARTMENT. [ARTICLE]

POULTRY DEPARTMENT.

E. w. Clifton, Editor.

SALUTATORT.

We make oar bo# io poultry men and fanciers ia general, end to the ladiee, who are undoubtedly the poultry hocierg ia particalar. ■' Why? Becnaee through the liberality of the proprietor of this paper, this column has been dedicated to the interests of improved and thoroughbred poultry, as well as to the thousand and oae locks of scratching mongrels in the county, which scratch not oaly for their own living, bat materially assist in getting one for their owners, by contributions, frequent and liberal, of eggs for the table and the grocer, of meat, juicy and luscious, suited to the epicurean tastes mest orthodox Methodist itinerant. They hsrecertainly earned deserved attention. Neglected of men, the persecuted of bswk, weasel sod rat, • caterers to our finest testes, they shall not longer he neglected. "We nns” for one year, at least, beg to be considered a champion for their rights, and if we do not better their condition, nwnken n new interest in their improvement, care and culture, we shall be found it least, ‘‘trying.’* Though we expect to be often adjudged fowl, we shall ever be found juat.