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an enterprise could be made wholly self-sustaining after the land 

 and buildings were provided. The interest developed would focus, 

 attention on the importance of good breeding and correct methods 

 of handling poultry, and would be the means of distributing to the 

 owners of the tested stock, in every section of the state, the most 

 productive and most vigorous individuals to improve their breeding 

 flocks. These and many other opportunities await our attention. 

 We are ready and anxious to undertake these important educa- 

 tional enterprises. The returns would abundantly justify the state 

 in providing the way. 

 ^ JAMES E. RICE, 



Professor of Poultry Husbandry. 



