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cattle in order to get practice. When the contest occurred he 

 came up to the platform as his name was called, came forward 

 bashfully, wringing his hands, putting them in his pockets 

 and withdrawing them, seemed to be very uneasy, and then 

 finally said this : " I have worked hard, very hard to get this 

 speech ready. I kept it all to myself. Nobody knew what I 

 was going to say but God and me. Now I have got here He 

 alone knows."' (Laughter.) 



Now I am not going to undertake to try to show some of 

 these hard-headed poultrymen that I see before me that I 

 know all there is to know about raising chickens. I do not. 

 In the first place, I have been in Rhode Island only six months, 

 and most of my experience has been in conducting experiments 

 in connection with poultry much further west than that, but 

 possibly I have been able to get in touch with some experi- 

 ments and their results which apply generally all over the 

 country, and the results of which may possibly not have been 

 available to some of you, or you may not have had the op- 

 portunity to work out their practical application, and if I 

 refer to some of those things it may be timely. Professor 

 Graham in warning me that I was going to be offered up this 

 afternoon said that he would like to have me talk about some 

 of the things we are doing in Rhode Island, and then he said 

 he was going to ask me to talk on turkeys. t 



Now there are certain things that have impressed me 

 strongly in studying poultry conditions, and I am going to 

 mention several of them as they happen to come to my mind. 

 Some of them may not appear in very logical sequence, but 

 I am going to offer them as they have appeared to me. 



In the first place, I would like to say just a word regarding 

 this fresh air system of housing fowls. That has been touched 

 upon by both of the previous speakers, and I would like to give 

 you the results of some experience that we had at the Rhode 

 Island college. We have a number of colony houses of dif- 

 ferent birds, all of which have been built by the students. We 



