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water from the creek in the valley, about one half mile distant, for rearing 

 three thousand or more chickens each year. A suitable water supply 

 should be provided. This may be obtained from the gorge by a ram, or 

 from the farm by a driven well and windmill or engine power. It would 

 be a profit-paying investment from the standpoint of saving labor, as well 

 as furnishing a superior quality and regular supply of water. 



Other needs of the farm. — The farm should have a boundary fence. 

 The woodlot should be fenced for a turkey and game-bird preserve, for 

 investigation and instruction. Much of the farm would be greatly im- 

 proved by tile-draining. A ten-acre apple orchard should be planted in 

 the rearing park, to provide shade and to carry out our system of cropping 

 for a New York State poultry farm. 



The marked increase in the crop-producing power of the land, which 

 is apparent each year, justifies the belief that a substantial net profit (npt 

 counting general administration and foreman supervision) may be ex- 

 pected when the size of the farm is increased and it is properly equipped 

 with water supply, tools, buildings, and the like, for efficient 

 administration. 



Buildings. — The weakest factor in our system of departmental adminis- 

 tration is the lack of sufficient and suitable auxiliary buildings. This 

 deficiency will be greatly increased when the Department occupies the new 

 Poultry Building. The new building will provide lecture and laboratory 

 facilities for two hundred and fifty or more students at one time, and many 

 more may be accommodated when all the teaching periods are used. 

 Facilities for teaching the practice courses in feeding, brooding, judging, 

 and the like, as they should be taught, are limited at the present time to less 

 than one hundred students. By curtailing the breed-testing and investi- 

 gative work this year and reducing the amount of practice that each 

 student may receive, we are planning to teach 115 students in the Winter- 

 Course in Poultry Husbandry. This number, which is more than twice 

 as many students as we have taught before in the Winter-Course, is about 

 one half the capacity of the lecture and laboratory facilities. Because of 

 this lack of auxiliary buildings, the Department may be unable to accept a 

 number of students who will apply for instruction this winter. The writer 

 therefore urges, as the most imperative need of the Department, the erec- 

 tion this year of auxiliary buildings, essentially as recommended in the 

 ten-year plan. 



Removal of present plant. — The fact that the new Poultry Building will 

 now become the center of operations for the Department, that it contains 

 all the lecture and recitation rooms, laboratories, locker rooms, offices, 

 mechanics room, marketing room, and so on, and that it is located about 

 one eighth of a mile distant from the old plant — where the practice 

 courses must be taught to not less than two hundred students this year 



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