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of poultry foods; embryology of the egg; special lectures on poultry 

 diseases, such as roup, tuberculosis, black head; growing crops 

 especially for poultry, etc. Lectures, 4 hours a week. Assistant 

 Professor Rice. 



Special Poultry Lectures. — From time to time, special lectures will 

 be given to the Short -Course students by experts along certain lines 

 of poultry husbandry. Lectures mil also be given by other members 

 of the faculty, on subjects bearing indirectly on poultry husbandry, 

 as the culture of crops valuable for poultry. Lectures, 2 hours a week. 



Poultry Practice.- — Class and individual practice in planning and 

 building poultry houses ; the management of incubators and brooders ; 

 selecting fowls for mating; feeding; dressing, and all the practical 

 details of managing a successful poultry plant. Each student will be 

 assigned a special flock and will be expected to perform all the daily 

 operations of its care, keeping an accurate accoimt of the individual 

 record of each fowl, cost of keep, gain or loss of weight, temperature 

 of house, etc., giving him an opportunity to do all the various kinds 

 of work about a poultry plant before he is called upon to do it for 

 himself. He will operate an incubator, giving complete records 

 of results obtained. Excursions to points of interest to poultrymen 

 will be taken by the class occasionally. Three hours a week. Assist- 

 ant Professor Rice. 



The Farm Home. — Three hours a week. For description of this 

 course see page 20. 



There are thus 12 hours a week of required work in the Winter 

 Poultry-Course. From the follomng list of subjects each student 

 may, if it seems desirable, elect 6 hours more. All these elective 

 courses, except the first one, are described under the General Agricul- 

 ture-Course on the preceding pages. All students are strongly 

 advised not to take more than 16 hours work. The selection of 

 electives should be made after consultation with the professor in 

 charge of the course. 



Additional Poultry Practice. — For those persons who desire to get 

 all the poultry experience possible in the limited time at their dis- 

 posal, and especially for those who expect to take charge of a poultry 

 plant immediately. Practice, 3 hours a week. Assistant Professor Rice. 



Agronomy, 4 hours a week. See page 20. 



Farm Dairying, 3 hours a week. See page 21. 



Horticulture, 3 hours a week. See page 20. 



FertiUty of Land, 2 hours a week. See page 20. 



Animal Husbandry, 3 hours a week. See page 20. 



Diseases of Farm Animals, 1 hour a week. See page 21. 



Farm Mechanics and Machinery, 1 hour a week. See page 21. 



