POULTRY HUSBANDMAN 



Francis R. Kl•:^■^"l•.^ 



The Poultry Department was created February 1, 1919, and 

 has been in existence only during- the last five months of the present 

 fiscal year. The P^oultry Husbandman has spent most of his time 

 in getting the poultry plant on the campus stocked with desirable 

 birds and in securing ecpiipmcnt and housing facilities for the 

 proper functioning of the department. The poultry yards and 

 buildings and all of the brooders, incubators, and other equipment 

 and appliances have been prepared for use. 



A few good breeding birds have been purchased and several 

 hunred chicks hatched out. There are now on the plant several 

 good pens of Single Comb Rhode Island Reds, Barred Plymouth 

 Rocks, Single Comb White Leghorns, and Single Comb Anconas. 



The five months during which this dejiartment has existed 

 this year have been used almost entirely in preparation for the 

 next year's work, and no projects have l^een completed. 



