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"emain in close proximity to the main college group in order to 

 l)c easily accessible to students. The present location appears to 

 be the most desirable, in fact the only site available. With all the 

 north slope available for the instructional plant, it would furnish 

 sufficient land for instructional purposes for many years to come, 

 provided the stock could be moved to less congested quarters when 

 not desired for use for instructional purposes. 



There are few, if any, agricultural subjects in which practice 

 courses can be taught to better advantage than in Poultry Hus- 

 bandry. It is absolutely essential to the successful teaching of 

 Poultry Husbandry that at least half of the students' time be occu- 

 pied in actually doing the work in the laboratories and on the plant. 



This will be utterly impossible of accomplishment if the plant is 

 not easily accessible, owing to the fact that the practice work re- 

 quires the student to be at the plant a large part of the time during 

 the day, especially early in the morning and late in the afternoon. 



There is immediate and urgent need for a large building for 

 offices, laboratories, incubator cellars, killing room, general work 

 room and a judging pavilion. It will be necessary to have these 

 before it will be possible to recfuire practice courses of all of the 

 students who elect Poultry Husbandry and before it will be possible 

 for us to accommodate all of the students who desire to take the 

 winter poultry-course. At the present time we are occupying con- 

 tinuously an office and reading room at certain dates and hours, 

 a lecture room and recitation room in the Dairy building at no 

 little inconvenience to the Department of Dairy Industry. 



Because of the lack of facilities, due principally to insufficient 

 number of pens, the small incubator cellar, killing room, carpenter 

 shop and laboratories, we will be unable to accommodate more than 

 two-thirds of the students who will seek admission to the winter 

 poultry-course this year. \Ye have increased our capacity over 

 previous years until we now, September 30th, can accommodate 

 fifty students and have accepted forty-seven signed applications 

 for the winter poultry-course. Notwithstanding the fact that we 

 undoubtedly have a larger teaching staff, better equipments and 

 general facilities for teaching Poultry Husbandry than any other 

 agricultural college, it is apparent that if we are to meet our obliga- 

 tion to the State and to the Nation, we should have more land, 

 buildings, equipments and men. 



JAMES E. RICE, 

 Assistant Professor of Poultry Hushandrx. 



