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(d) The number of speaking engagements which have been filled by 



members of the instructing staff of the Poultry Department, 1907-8, is as 



follows : 



Number of appointments made by members of the Poultry Depart- 

 ment for outside speaking 35 



Number of speaking engagements in co-operation with N. Y. State 

 Farmers' Institutes 6 



Number of speaking engagements in co-operation with C. U. Exten- 

 sion Department 17 



Number of speaking engagements in exchange for services of non- 

 resident lecturers from other States 3 



Number of speaking engagements in other States 4 



Recommendations. 



The increasmg demand on the part of students for instruction, and 

 poultrymen and farmers of the State for lectures, personal visits, and 

 information through bulletins, reading-course lessons, rural school 

 leaflets, and correspondence, demands an increase in the amount of 

 land, buildings, equipments and help. 



(a) More land is imperatively needed. — The Department of Poultry 

 Husbandry, if it is to practice what it teaches, if it is to make a suc- 

 cess of the department, as indicated by healthy stock and large per- 

 centage of fertile eggs hatched and chickens reared, and if it is to do 

 this with an economical expenditure for food and labor, should have 

 forty to fifty acres of land in addition to the four or five acres, ap- 

 proximately, which it has now. The modern poultry enterprise is a 

 farm, not a plant. The latter almost invariably results in conges- 

 tion, disease and disaster. 



It is urged that the present plant be retained as long as possible 

 in order that instruction may be given in close proximity to the main 

 group of College buildings. A large part of the effective teaching in 

 Poultry liusbandry must be by practice in handling fowls and gen- 

 eral plant management. This cannot be done under existing con- 

 ditions of student living, with the poultry farm located on other land, 

 presumably now available for such purposes. The land to be de- 

 voted to the poultry farm would be used for all investigational work 

 and for the rearing and handling of all stock during the summer 

 season. 



It is necessary that the land be provided in order to rear the stock 

 successfully. The department is dependent on the indulgence of the 

 Farm .Department and the Department of Grounds for use of land 

 for rearing chickens during the summer months, which, although a 

 great improvement over conditions formerly existing, at best is only 



