Poultry-keeping on a small scale is apt to lose a good deal of its appeal in winter, and to the ordinary amateur nothing is more depressing than the sight of four bedraggled hens in a dripping backyard on a foggy day. Mr. W. Powell Owen is, however, an expert, and in the series of talks, of which this evening's is the first, he will give some very valuable advice as to how to make backyard poultry-farming enjoyable and profitable all through the year, and how to induce backyard fowls to yield winter eggs.