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poultry farm, there rearing our stock during the three summer 

 months when the students are not here, and removing from the 

 present plant all of the stock for the summer season, to be returned 

 for student instruction at the opening of the college year. 



The Department of Poultry Husbandry is now depending en- 

 tirely on the Department of Dairy Industry for office, recitation 

 room, lecture room, laboratory and reading-room. All of these 

 rooms are needed by the Dairy Department. The time has come 

 when the Department of Poultry Husbandry should have a building 

 of its own. We have reached a stage in our development when we 

 cannot further expand without more room and facilities. We can- 

 not now teach properly all who apply. 



In view of the above, the writer would urge that there be taken 

 up with the President and the Board of Trustees, at an early date, 

 the question of securing land as indicated and of asking the Legis- 

 lature for the amount of money necessary for a building which will 

 meet the needs of the Department. Such a building is now being 

 planned, and the plans will soon be submitted to the Director so that 

 the university officials and others may know just what are the 

 needs. 



A poultry census. — Among the many avenues of effort for de- 

 veloping the poultry interests of the state not yet taken up by the 

 Department, and which should be undertaken when the funds are 

 available, is a poultry survey of various sections of the state. The 

 Department should go to the farms and study the problem at first 

 hand so that it may render help whenever needed in improving 

 rations, mating stock, preparing products for market, remodeling 

 poultry houses, preventing disease and in many other ways. The 

 poultrymen are anxious to co-operate with us in this work. 



Farm laboratories. — The natural result of a careful study of 

 poultry farm conditions is the discovery of problems which de- 

 mand careful investigation. Hence the need for farm laboratories. 

 Already the Department is called upon to send a representative to 

 conduct experiments on farms. Many problems can best be solved 

 and some can be solved only on the farm where the problem ex- 

 ists. Such co-operative enterprises furnish the most convincing 

 object lessons. 



Poultry breeding stations. — A poultry testing and breeding sta- 

 tion should be established in this state where various breeds, varie- 

 ties and strains of poultry could be trap-nested and compared 

 under the most favorable conditions and careful supervision. Such 



