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temporary and unsatisfactory, both to the Poultry Department and 

 to the departments that permit the use of their land. 



(b) More buildings should be provided. — There is urgent need for a 

 main administration building for the Department of Poultry Hus- 

 bandry. The department is now dependent on the Department of 

 Dairy Industry for lecture-room, laboratory, office and reading-room. 

 The present poultry building is wholly inadequate to meet the de- 

 mands of the students who are taking instruction. The incubator- 

 cellar is taxed beyond its capacity. The feed-room is too small and 

 there are not pens enough to accommodate all of the students who 

 will seek instruction in Poultry Husbandry the present winter. 



The department will be obliged, this winter, to limit the number 

 of students in the Winter Poultry Course to fifty. It is more than 

 likely that it will be necessary to turn away students in this State 

 because of lack of facilities, nowithstanding the fact that we have 

 inserted the clause that no students from outside of the State shall 

 be given a place in the class if, by so doing, it shall debar a person 

 from this State from entering. 



(c) More help is required. — In order properly to teach the students 

 who seek instruction there should be an assistant professor appointed, 

 in the near future, who shall devote his entire time to instruction. 



(d) Poultry exhibits at the fairs should be extended. — The Department 

 of Poultry Husbandry could use funds to splendid advantage and with 

 great profit to the poultrymen in placing an educational exhibit at every 

 town and county fair in the State, where suitable accommodations could 

 be provided. 



(e) Poultry associations are effective centers for zvork and should be 

 assisted.^- There are forty or more poultry clubs, societies and associations 

 in this State, a very large proportion of which would welcome one or 

 more speakers each year to attend these meetings, especially in connection 

 with their poultry shows, where educational exhibits should be displayed. 



{i) A poultry survey would result in great good. — There should be a 

 poultry survey made of Tompkins county and other counties of the State 

 at the earliest possible date. Much valuable information can be gained by 

 comparison of methods as they are actually practiced by farmers and 

 poultrymen in this State. This type of information is wholly lacking and 

 decidedly needed at the present time. 



James E. Rice, 



Professor of Poultry Husbandry. 



