DEPARTMENT OF POULTRY HUSBANDRY. 



The Department of Poultry Husbandry has made a steady, 

 substantial growth in each division of its work. The activities of the 

 Department may be considered under the heads (i) Administration; 

 (2) Teaching; (3) Investigation; (4) Extension. 



I. ADMINISTRATION. 



During the past year, the capacity of the poultry plant has been 

 increased by the addition of eight colony houses for the rearing of 

 chickens and a summer house for cockerels. These enable us to 

 rear more stock, to show our students the differences in types of 

 houses, and furnish information for publication. We now have a 

 capacity for rearing, to marketable age, five thousand chickens, and 

 for wintering fifteen hundred head of poultry. As a result of better 

 facilities, our gross income and net income have steadily increased. 

 A few of the more important items of the inventory of the Depart- 

 ment of Poultry Husbandry on July i, 1909, follow : 



Approximately five acres of land $1,000 00 



Buildings 6,248 00 



Stock 2,034 00 



General equipments and supplies 4,676 00 



$13,958 00 



The amount of inventoried stock to date, September 15, 1909, is 

 as follows: 



Young stock 3,683 



Mature stock 739 



Total 4,422 



II. TEACHING. 



Nearly all of the courses in poultry husbandry during the past 

 year have been strengthened by better laboratory and equipment 

 facilities. The general lecture course has been extended to a three- 

 hour course, requiring the laboratory practice, making a four-hour 



