DEPARTMENT REPORTS. 63 



REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF POULTRY HUSBANDRY. 



President F. S. Kedzie, College. 



Dear Sir — I have the honor to snbmit the following report of the 

 Department of Poultry Husbandry for the year ending June 30, 1917 : 



BUILDINGS. 



We are occupying seventeen buildings; one house 18 ft. by 184 ft, one 

 house 16 ft. by 84 ft., three colony houses each 16 ft. by 24 ft., two colony 

 Ijouses 6 ft. by 8 ft., seven portable colony houses 10 ft. by 12 ft., one 

 open front house 20 ft. by 20 ft., and an oat sprouting house 10 ft. by 14 ft. 

 Students have built three houses as laboratory work during the year. 



EQUIPMENT. 



The department has operated eighteen incubators, one 1200 egg size, 

 two 200 egg size, three 150 egg size and twelve 70 egg size. Students 

 have received instruction in handling all methods of heating in in- 

 cubators — lamp, water and electricity. One large laying house has been 

 converted into a brooder house with ample facilities for brooding 3.500 

 young chicks with the colony stove system. Eighteen lamp brooders 

 are available that will brood 1300 young chicks so that the total brood- 

 ing capacity for the poultiy plant is 4800 3'Oung chicks. 



Breeds of fowls that are popular with farmers, poultrj'men and back- 

 yard raisers of poultry are maintained upon the poultry plant. Ducks, 

 geese and turkeys are also kept for educational and investigational 

 purposes. 



Table showing the kinds of fowls: 



Hens 840 



Cockbirds 57 



Young stock (all ages) 2100 



Turkeys 3 



Ducks (Rouen) old 15 



Ducks (young) 40 



Geese (old) 8 



Geese (young) 12 



Total 3075 



The instruction work for the year has been as follows : 



Summer Term— 5 regular students, 15 special students, Total — 20. 

 Fall Term — 9 regular students. Total — 9. 

 Winter Term— 17 regular students, 33 S. Course, Total — 50. 

 Spring Term — 137 regular students. Total — 137. 



Total for the year 216 



Total number of hours devoted to lectures 150 



Total number of hours devoted to laboratoiy work 267 



Total number of hours of instructional work 417 



