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tions have been accepted and deposit fees paid. One person from this 

 State and nineteen from other States have been denied admission, be- 

 cause of lack of room — an increase of approximately five hundred per 

 cent. In view of the above, it now seems certain that the department 

 will be obliged this winter to turn away many more short-course poultry 

 students than it can accept. This indicates that before we shall occupy 

 the new building and auxiliary buildings the department will have more 

 than reached the estimate set of the number of students to be accommo- 

 dated. This emphasizes the necessity of securing, as speedily as possible, 

 appropriations for the auxiliary buildings, which were called for in the 

 plans and estimates for future development submitted a year ago. 



With the increase in attendance of students, it will be necessary to 

 increase the teaching force. We should now have an assistant professor 

 primarily for instructional work. 



investigation. 



Owing to a lack of poultry-house facilities, the amount of investiga- 

 tional work conducted by the department has remained essentially the 

 same as last year. Many important projects remain untouched and the 

 present work is seriously handicapped because of lack of room. 



Among the projects investigated this year are 



1. A comparison of the results of free range versus bare yard and close 

 confinement on laying and breeding stock, 



2. The accumulative effect of natural versus artificial incubation on 

 the health and productivity of fowls. 



3. The importance of constitutional vigor in selecting fowls. 



4 The relation of inheritance to the function of egg production. 



5. Age as a factor in production and breeding. 



6. The feeding of color pigments in nutrition experiments. 



7. Seven methods of feeding chickens to broiler age. 



8. Second year experiments in cross-breeding White Leghorns and 

 Barred Rocks, in comparison with pure breds. 



Three bulletins have been published during the year as follows: 



No. 274. " Principles of Building Poultry Houses." 



No. 2'/y. " The New York State Gasoline Heated Colony Brooder 

 House." 



No. 282. " Seven Methods of Feeding Chickens." 



A bulletin on " New Poultry Appliances " is now in the press and 

 several bulletins are in preparation. 



Experiments have been and are now being conducted in cooperation 

 with the Department of Agricultural Chemistry and the New York State 

 Veterinary College. 



