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speak of. The boy experimented on himself and 

 the chickens during the remainder of his college 

 course and then went into business for himself. 

 Later someone discovered that that enthusiastic 

 Cornell graduate knew a lot about poultry and 

 had a faculty of stating so clearly and forcibly 

 what he knew that he could convince others. And 

 thus it was that Mr. James Rice came to be much 

 sought after as a travelling instructor by the 

 Farmer's Institute management. 



Some time afterwards, Mr. George Watson 

 author of Farm Poultry (1901) who was also 

 a graduate of the University, was employed to 

 assist me in experimental work and to take charge 

 of the poultry. The work went on so satisfac- 

 torily that the experimental industry had to be 

 enlarged by building another house out of the 

 refuse pile. As students increased other colony 

 houses were built, one each year, until there were 

 half a dozen or more, the construction work being 

 done largely by students in the regular hours ar- 

 ranged for farm practice. It was while the stu- 

 dents, Mr. Watson and I were building the third 

 house, I think, that the chairman of the Executive 

 Committee drove up one afternoon, glanced at 

 us, and turned and drove away without so much 



