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year just before they begin to moult that have pale shanks are likely 

 to be heavy layers. We tind that it is almost invariably the case with 

 the yellow shank breeds that if you tind a fowl with good coU)r in the 

 shanks she is not a good layer. (5) In addition to that we may con- 

 sider the body of the fowl as indicating prolihcacy. There is such a 

 thing as the egg type when you once come to know it, but it is not a 

 certain indication. 



Before closing this lecture I ought to bring to your attention the 

 fact that the amount of money that is being spent by the agricultural 

 colleges for dairying and horticulture, and other branches of agricul- 

 ture, is entirely out of proportion to the amount of money given to 

 poultry. This chart (Fig. 41) shows the result of a census taken by 

 the American Poultry Association to learn the amount of money spent 

 for dairying, horticulture and poultry in the agricultural colleges and 

 experiment stations in Canada and the United States. You will no- 

 tice that for every dollar spent for instruction and investigation and 

 pernument investment in poultry husbandry in the United States and 

 Canada there are six dollars spent for dairying and seven dollars 

 spent for horticulture; and of all this amotmt of money that is ex- 

 jiended annually for every one dollar for poultry there are four dol- 

 lars for dairying and four dollars for horticulture. However, when 

 you come to get the actual proportionate value of the products pro- 

 duced by poultry, by horticulture and dairying, and by horticulture, 

 according to the census of ten years ago, we find that for every one 

 dollar in value of poultry products produced there are only one and 

 three-tenths dollars in horticulture and one and seven-tenths of a dol- 

 lar in dairying. 



The last slide (Fig. 42) shows a picture in your own State. There 

 is a picture of the poultry department of your own State College of 

 Agriculture, a department where under Prof. Homer Jackson good 

 work is being done with facilities that are wholly inadequate to the 

 poultry interests of this great State. Dean Hunt, I know personally, 

 is thoroughly interested in the development of that department. When 

 I was there a ntimber of years ago he said: "Whenever we can get 

 the appropriation to build the buildings and find the man" — he did 

 not have Jackson then — "to take care of this department as it ought 

 to be, there are twenty acres of as nice land as can be found in the 

 State of Pennsylvania that will be turned over to the use of the poul- 

 try department." 



The slides show views of the bo^'s in the winder courses making 

 chicken coops, building colony houses, jtidging poultry and other 

 pictures to show the dozens of ways in which they are trying to teach 

 the latest and best methods that will help the poultry of the State. 



1 feel that in this great State of Pennsylvania, which is one of the 

 richest and one of the best agricultural States in the Union, and in 

 which poultry husbandry is one of the chief agricultural resources, 

 with the ability and the courage and the loyalty of the poultrymen 

 of the State and the efforts of your poultry association through the 

 able leadership of the President, Mr. W. Theodore Wittman, who is 

 chairman of this meeting, with the assistance of the State Poard of 

 Agriculture and Farmers' Institutes and all these other educational 

 agencies, that the State of Pennsylvania is not going to take a position 

 in the rear rank, but is going to measure up to the responsibility and 

 take the position and place it should occupy in the front rank of the 

 states. (Applause). 



