46 STATE BOARD OP AGRICULTURE. 



the institute train work served as a means whereby the department 

 was enabled to determine the needs of a greater number. A larger effort 

 should be made to come in contact with the -farming classes and en- 

 deavor to cause them to appreciate the necessity and desirability of 

 better care of farm poultry and poultry products. 



The experimental work on the comparison of houses has been con- 

 tinued and a report is being prepared. This part of the poultry de- 

 partment work has been neglected because of the heavy instructional 

 duties. More attention should be paid to poultry experimentation and 

 demonstration, and it is the hope that this work will be encouraged by 

 special help and equipment in order that the departments influence may 

 extend beyond the instructional work to the complex problems of the 

 poultry man. 



The equipment has remained unchanged. About 1,300 young have 

 been raised to replace the old and there will be a greater variety thus 

 making the flocks more adaptable to student work. 



It has been very difficult to properly equip a man for poultry work 

 in the past because of lack of time. Also some of the agricultural 

 courses have been criticized because of lack of poultry instruction. In 

 order to correct these two conditions a change in courses has been made. 

 All poultry work is to be given in the junior and senior year, the junior 

 work being required of all agricultural students, viz.: origin, history, 

 and characteristics of the more common breeds of poultry as a part of 

 Animal Husbandry 3; the Feeding of Farm Poultry as a part of Ani- 

 mal Husbandry 4, and Elementarj' Poultry Raising as an independent 

 subject in the spring term. The seni(*r work is more advanced. By 

 this arrangement the agricultural student is given a general course 

 in poultry raising and the poultry specialist will have a year's prepara- 

 tion, thus enabling him to do more satisfactory and thorough work. 



The department feels the need of more room. Crowded conditions are 

 not conducive to thorough work. The use of a room in the Agricultural 

 Building for a laboratory greatly relieved conditions during short 

 course, but the use of temporary quarters is unsatisfactory, due to the 

 impossibility of securing and of maintaining permanent equipment. 

 Classes in poultry judging were held at the poultrj' house and this 

 building was inadequate because of the large number. The practice 

 work in poultry feeding must undergo a change. With the large num- 

 bers taking the work, under present arrangements it has been neces- 

 sary to let students use the breeding pens, a practice unfavorable to 

 best results in production or in the hatching and raising of the young. 

 The introduction of partitions into some of the pens in the long house 

 will make it especially adaptable for student work without interfer- 

 ing with its present usefulness. 



Considerable credit must be given Mr. J. O. Linton who assisted in 

 the short course work, and it is a pleasure to report that his work was 

 highly satisfactory. 



The necessity for more extension work and the encouragment of more 

 poultry experimentation cannot be over emphasized and provisions 

 should be made to efficiently handle the increasing numbers in the vari- 

 ous courses. It is only by the development of all these activities that 



