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g?0(l results which fdllowcd from the exhihit of models, charts, etc., 

 are apparent from the interest shown by visitors at the fairs and 

 the r:nmber of persons ^vho gave their names for pubhcations and 

 the correspondence which followed They would abundantly justify 

 a contmuation of this means of reaching the poultrymen of the State. 

 Approximately, 212 persons signed cards requesting the publications 

 at the New York .State Breeders' Association, 159 at the New York 

 State fair, and 50 at the Tompkins County fair. 



(e) Receiving visitors. A large number of visitors from this 

 and other states and countries do us the honor each year of in- 

 specting the poultry plant. To give them cheerful, painstaking' at- 

 tention is our privilege and our duty, and it is also a most fruitful 

 source of consumption of time w hich some one must supply. 



GENERAL RECOMMENDATIONS. 



If the poultry department is to continue to grow as it has in the 

 past, it will be nccessarv to provide more land, more help, more 

 buildings and more equipments. The growing demand for instruc- 

 tion in poultry husbandry, both in the long and short courses, and 

 the pressing need for experiment and research to solve the many 

 perplexing problems confronting poultrymen, will justify the ex- 

 pense. If the demand is met. it will be giving to the large poultry 

 i'-'terests of the State only what already has been too long withheld. 

 In view of the above I would recommend the following improve- 

 ments to be made in the near future : 



1. In order to separate more completely the instructional from 

 the investigational work, a senarate poultry plant should be estab- 

 lished on land easily accessible to the University. The present plant 

 should then be used wholly, for instructional purposes. For the ex- 

 periment plant there should be not less than 20 acres and buildings 

 to accommodate not less than i.ooo fowls and provide a general 

 feed and supply room with dormitory facilities. 



2. It is aoparcnt that the three laying houses now south of the 

 road, Mill have to be removed. I would recommend that they, to- 

 gether -with the three old ponltry buildings north of the road, be 

 torn down anrl the materials, in so far as possible, b'? used in recon- 

 structing the poultry plant. 



3. A new buildinsi consi'^tinc' of 28 nens. each t?xt2. should be 

 constructed, connecting the main building with the new poultry 

 house now in process of erection and shown on accompanying plans, 

 which also show an arrangement of walks, ro-^dwav. e*^c. This 



