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Equipment. — The $15,000 appropriation for equipping the new Poultry 

 Building is being expended with the object in view of providing the 

 facilities most immediately necessary. Considerable important scientific 

 apparatus and some furniture will still be required before the building is 

 fully equipped to meet our requirements. The total value of the equip- 

 ment of the Department on July i was $7,471, not including the special 

 $15,000 appropriation mentioned above. 



Maintenance. — The occupation of the new Poultry Building calls for 

 larger maintenance appropriations because of the increased expense for 

 maintenance of the Department in three widely separated places — the old 

 poultry plant, the farm, and the new Poultry Building. We need now a 

 larger inrlructing, investigating, and extension staff. We shall need to 

 have appointed, in the near future, an additional assistant professor, an 

 instructor, and several .assistants. 



Our aim is fourfold : It is of equal importance that we find new 

 problems first-hand, by keeping in close touch with poultrymen through 

 our extension work ; that we study these problems in our investigations to 

 discover new truths, which may lead to the adoption of better methods ; 

 that we carry, to the large number of persons who cannot attend College, 

 the largest possible measure of useful instruction and inspiration : that we 

 teach the most efficient principles and practices to the students who come 

 to the College. 



JAMES E. RICE, 

 Professor of Poultry Husbandry. 



