EXTENSION DIVISION. 179 



SUMMARY. 



Conferences with College UeiDartments 20 



State Conferences 2 



County Conferences 48 



Acres in farm woodlands visited 979 



County Agents assisted 19 



Counties worked in 2G 



Farms visited 87 



Talks made 9 



Attendance at talks 190 



Demonstrations held 8 



Attendance at demonstrations 78 



Sand dunes visited (acres) 125 



Letters written 340 



Office calls 25 



Iiesi)ectfully submitted, 



E. C. MANDENBERG, 

 Extension Specialist in Forestry. 

 ]']ast Lansing, Mich., June 30, 1920. 



EEPORT OF EXTENSION WORK IN POULTRY HUSBANDRY. 



The report of extension work in Poultry Husbandry herein submitted, 

 extends over a period of five and one-half months. Leave of absence 

 was granted the present extension specialist from October to mid April. 

 The type of work conducted during the balance of the year has been 

 limited largely to farm flock culling demonstrations. The increasing de- 

 mand, among our farmers for a practical knowledge of the character- 

 istics that constitute both profitable and non-profitable hens has created 

 state wide interest in this culling work. The summer and fall months 

 are devoted almost entirely to this form of extension work, because of 

 the economic advantages of disposing of unproductive hens immediately 

 upon the completion of their laying cycle and also because of the fact 

 that certain physical tests are only applicable during this period. 



In endeavoring to comply with the large number of requests from the 

 county farm bureaus for demonstrations it was found necessary to allot 

 only two days to each county. Obviously each county must have a 

 definitely organized program to use the specialist's time to greatest ad- 

 vantage. In most cases the specialist, in cooperation with the county 

 agent, would hold a meeting in each townshi}). This provided an op- 

 portunity for training a leader in each township to do follow-up work 

 assisted by the county agent where necessary. The specialist in order 

 lo woik most effectively arranged his itinerary so that a greater amount 

 of territory could be covered by introducing the work in the southern 

 counties first and migrating north with the march of season. Thus a 



