88 Department of Poultry Husbandry. 



Extension work away from the college of some type was carried on 

 in 144 places in the State of New York this fiscal year. 



The large demand from managers of poultry shows and agricultural 

 fairs for educational exhibits is a good indication of the value of the latter. 

 Their efficiency in reaching the people of the State is shown by the fact 

 that two hundred or more signed requests for agricultural college litera- 

 ture were secured at each show, and in two instances (International 

 Poultry Show, Buffalo, N. Y., 1910, and the New York State Fair, 1910) 

 one to two thousand requests were received. In the wake of each of 

 these exhibits and demonstrations comes a large increase in corre- 

 spondence and application for admission to courses in the College of 

 Agriculture. 



All of the exhibits at the agricultural fairs, the lecture work in con- 

 nection with railroad trains, and many of the other lectures, were in co- 

 operation with the extension office and several were in cooperation with 

 the New York State Department of Agriculture. 



One person now devotes his entire time, for one half of the year, to 

 the outside engagements, conducting educational exhibits, giving demon- 

 strations, lecturing, and giving advice by personal visits to poultry farms, 

 Several persons could well be thus engaged continuously. 



recommendations. 



1. Location of the nezu poultry husbandry building. — The location of 

 the new poultry husbandry building is a matter of vital importance. 

 The writer desires again to emphasize what he has urged on several pre- 

 vious occasions, that the poultry building should be located in connection 

 with the Agricultural College group, and in such position that auxiliary 

 buildings and yards can be properly maintained for the instructional work 

 in the practice courses. The subject of poultry husbandry cannot be 

 taught successfully by lectures, text-books, and laboratory work alone. It 

 is an art as well as a science. The students must have opportunity to 

 do a large amount of work with their hands, under our immediate direc- 

 tion, before we can safely place on them the stamp of approval. If 

 practice courses must be taken at any great distance from the Agricultural 

 College group, students will not and cannot elect the work. The experi- 

 ment has been tried at other colleges and has failed. 



2. Auxiliary buildings. — Before we can make full use of our proposed 

 poultry husbandry building for teaching purposes, it will be necessary 

 largely to increase the number of auxiliary buildings, where the brooding, 

 fattening and feeding for egg-production are to be conducted. In the 

 plans for future extension submitted during the year by the department, 



