Department of Poultry Husbandry 



CXXIX 



It will be seen that there has been each year a constant and gradual 

 increase of the total inventoried value, as follows: 



♦Includes fifty-acre farm on which annual rental is paid. 



Land. — The land now available or occupied by the Department is in 

 three widely separated places, as follows: First, about five acres in the 

 old poultry plant near the buildings of the College of Agriculture. This is 

 now used for investigation and instruction. Second, about two acres (now 

 partially graded) around the new Poultry Building. Third, eighty-one 

 acres, about one mile distant from the College and north of Forest Home, 

 where all the stock is reared and farm crops are grown. This amount and 

 location of land makes administration difficult and expensive. 



The estimated value of the land available for the use of the Poukry 

 Department (not including land adjacent to the new Poultry Building) 



is $3,500. 



The land adjacent to the new Poukry Building should be used exclu- 

 sively for teaching. The poultry farm should be used for four purposes : 

 First, to keep all the stock used in investigative work, which will then be 

 separated completely from the teaching enterprise ; second, for our breed- 

 testing project, which should be increased to one hundred or more flocks; 

 third, to demonstrate a proper poultry-farm cropping system ; fourth, to 

 rear all our stock under normal farm conditions. When properly 

 equipped the farm will be very largely, if not entirely, self-supporting 

 (aside from general administration and foreman supervision), without 

 lessening its efficiency as a teaching and investigating enterprise. 



A larger area of land could be used to good advantage. In the near 

 future, more land will be imperative if we are to practice the type of 

 poultry farming that we teach, and if we are to handle the enterprise 

 economically. Fifty acres is too small an amount of land to make the 

 most desirable poultry-farm unit. We should have not less than eighty 

 to one hundred acres in order to handle our teams and tools to the best 

 advantage and to grow a proper rotation of crops and provide suitable 

 pasturage for our stock. We need this extra amount of land now. 



Wafer supply for the farm. — We are greatly handicapped in the 

 economical administration of the poultry farm, owing to the lack of a 

 regular water supply. This has made it necessary to haul by team all the 



