40 Report of the Director. 



Seventeen students were enrolled. Of these, three were women; 13 

 were residents of New York State, one Minnesota, one Wisconsin, one 

 Maine, one Towa. The large number of students proportionately 

 from other states is worthy of note. This no doubt is due to the 

 fact that only two other states offer systematic instruction in poultry 

 husbandry, and these two offer courses of only six weeks each. 



The course of instruction given consisted of 94 lectures, 55 of 

 which were given by the writer, on subjects relating to the practical 

 management of poultry, and the others as follows, from various 

 departments and colleges of the university: 



Prof. H. H* Wing, 10 lectures, "Principles of Breeding Poultry;" 

 Dr. W. B. Mack, six lectures, "Diseases of Poultry;" Prof. S. H. Gage, 

 six lectures, "Embryology of the Egg;" Dr. James Law, three lec- 

 tures, "Internal Poultry Parasites;" Dr. G. S. Hopkins, two lectures, 

 "Comparative Anatomy of Poultry;" Dr. P. A. Fish, one lecture, 

 "Comparative Physiology of Poultry;" Prof. G. Cavanaugh, one 

 lecture, "Condimental Poultr}'- Foods." 



Non-resident lectures were also given, as follows: 



T. E. Orr, Beaver, Pa., three lectures, "Scoring and Judging 

 Poultry;" T. F. McGrew, Washington, D. C, four lectures, "Turkeys, 

 Squabs, Fitting Fowls for the Show, Scoring and Judging Poultry;" 

 E. G. Wyckoff, Ithaca, N. Y., one lecture, "Making of a Breed;" 

 Dr. E. M. Santee, Cortland, N. Y., one lecture, "Poultry Sanitation." 



The fact that we are able to secure the services of so many experts 

 from various departments and colleges of the university makes it 

 possible to give a course of unusual strength — an advantage which 

 is clearly due to the fact that the College of Agriculture is an integral 

 part of a great university. 



The instruction was about equally divided between the lectures 

 and the practice work. Three afternoons per week and a portion of 

 every morning, noon and evening, were devoted to the actual Avork of 

 the poultry plant and to laboratory exercises of a practical nature. 

 In addition to this, several extended excursions were made to points 

 of interest to poultrymen and much time was devoted to the holding 

 of the Annual Poultry Show. This, the second Annual Poultry Show, 

 had more exhibits, larger attendance, and was of greater educational 

 value even than the one of last year. This method of stimulating 

 interest, imparting instruction and imifying student effort, appears 

 to have proven its value and to have established itself as a fixed 

 annual event. 



During the summer a letter was sent to each of the persons who 

 took the winter Poultry -Course with a hope in view of learning what 



