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The present office force cannot keep up the work without employing a 

 large amount of extra help by the hour. It will be necessary to employ an 

 extra stenographer and helper for the coming year. 



Educational exhibits. — The three educational exhibits belonging to the 

 Department are being remodeled and improved each year. They are 

 proving to be important educational agencies, in cooperation with poultry 

 associations and other organizations. 



Poultry survey. — Twenty farms have been carefully studied and data 

 obtained as to their business organization, using our poultry farm man- 

 agement blanks. We have records of replies to our question or survey 

 blanks, from 22,"/ persons who are especially interested in poultry hus- 

 bandry. 



Organization of poultrymen. — The Department is endeavoring to assist 

 existing poultry associations and to organize others, with the object of 

 having an active organization in every county and in many towns of the 

 State. 



Market survey. — A special study is being made of the poultry- and egg- 

 market conditions in this State, from the standpoint of the producer, the 

 dealer, and the consumer. 



Cooperative marketing association. — A cooperative egg- and poultry- 

 marketing enterprise, to assist the producers in the vicinity of Ithaca, is 

 being worked out. 



Breed-testing project. — Owing to a lack of facilities permitting con- 

 tinuance of the work under conditions that would meet the needs of the 

 farmer, coupled with the imperative demand for houses to provide in- 

 struction in feeding practice, this important work was reluctantly sus- 

 pended for the year. 



Demonstration and laboratory instruction. — Experience in giving 

 demonstrations and conducting laboratory exercises in killing, picking, 

 packing, and judging poultry, candling and grading eggs, the study of the 

 egg, and the like, in the tent at the New York State Fair, on the farm 

 trains, and in the extension schools, clearly demonstrates the growing 

 demand for this form of extension teaching. The lectures alone do not 

 fully meet modern requirements. The people are no longer willing only 

 to hear about things ; they are anxious also to see and do these things 

 themselves. We must more and more, in our extension work, substitute 

 " showing " and " opportunity for doing " for mere " telHng." 



administration 



The value of the land, buildings, stock, and equipment on July i, 191 2. 

 and for each of the four years preceding, is shown in the following table. 



