Ila. SUB-DEPARTMENT OF POULTRY HUSBANDRY. 



I submit the following report of the' work of the sub-department 

 of poultry husbandry for the year estimated as ending December ist. 



The activities of this department are five-fold. They have to do 

 with : First, administration ; second, instruction ; third, investigation ; 

 fourth, correspondence ; fifth, extension. 



L ADMINISTRATION. 



During the past year the stock, buildings, and equipment of the 

 Poultry Department have been materially increased. There has been 

 expended for scientific apparatus, primarilly for investigational pur- 

 poses, approximately $800. For equipments for instructional pur- 

 poses, approximately $300. For permanent improvements, approxi- 

 mately $500. The latter includes nine New York State gasoline 

 heated colony houses, three summer houses, and a laying house. 

 Many important hnprovements to existing buildings have also been 

 made. 



The plant, as now arranged, comprises forty-nine pens and the 

 main poultry building, having a total capacity for wintering 1,000 

 head of poultry and for rearing 2,000 chickens annually. With this 

 capacity w^ can give instruction in pen practice to thirty students 

 at one time without interfering with the regular experiments now 

 under way. We can also provide instruction to thirty students at 

 one time in incubator practice, although in doing this they are much 

 crowded. This increase in capacity for giving instruction, how- 

 ever, is not sufficient to meet the demands of the present year. 



In order thoroughly to systematize the business end of the poultry 

 department and to thereby give an accurate and comprehensive ac- 

 count each week and month of the expenditures and incomes, a 

 system of records has been worked out and is now in active use. A 

 copy of each of these forms is here appended, which show at the 

 end of each day the condition of the cash transactions and of the 

 inventorv, and gives an account of all stock bought, sold, or which 

 has died, all feed purchased or fed, all eggs used for market or incu- 

 bators, all equipments purchased or destroyed, etc. The successful 



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