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THE DEMONSTRATION POULTRY HOUSE. 



During the past few years a great deal of effective teaching has been 

 done by means of demonstration. One branch of agriculture, namely, 

 fruit-growing, seems to have lent itself very readily to this method. The 

 District Representatives who are located in fruit-growing sections, have 

 taken advantage of this, and by the management of demonstration 

 orchards have wonderfully increased the interest taken by farmers in the 

 proper care and management of their fruit trees. The success achieved 

 along this line suggested to us the possibility of the adoption of the same 

 idea in connection with poultry. Our desire was to work out some means 

 of illustrating to farmers, a good type of poultry house, pi'oper appli- 

 ances to install in the house, proper methods of feeding, and chief of all, 

 to demonstrate the possibility of winter egg production, fn the fall of 

 the past year the house as illustrated by Fig. lo was built. It was loaned 

 to an energetic and enterprising farmer on condition that the flock it 

 contained be managed and fed according to directions given. The results 

 in winter egg production were excellent. The pullets were not of a bred- 

 to-lay strain, but were early hatched, healthy, vigorous birds from pure- 

 bred stock. 



Fig. 10. — Demonstration poultry house. 



This scheme was eminently successful in arousing the interest of the 

 farmers in that locality. Everyone had the privilege of making an 

 examination of the house and enquiring as to methods of management, 

 etc. Surprising advantage was taken of this privilege and the effect upon 

 production during the first winter season was very marked. 



