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as passing the time of day. As it was the first 

 time I had ever seen him on the agricultural part 

 of the farm, I was very much disturbed, for I had 

 not asked either for permission to build nor an ap- 

 propriation to run, a poultry plant. The fact was, 

 the College was growing so slowly that I deter- 

 mined to risk something to develop this branch 

 since it would cost so little. My anxiety was 

 wasted, however, for he never took any notice of 

 the matter. 



Personally I had little to do with the Poultry 

 Department except to give it general direction and 

 to squeeze the inadequate farm appropriation 

 enough each year to make it hatch a modest chicken 

 house until we had built seven of them. I do take 

 credit, however, for furnishing that zealous Sopho- 

 more with his opportunity and with teaching him 

 to begin experiments on a small scale. I am de- 

 lighted to learn that the desire for instruction in 

 poultry husbandry has so far outrun the facilities 

 that a new and larger plant is urgently required 

 and is likely to be supplied in the near future. I 

 have just read that bills have been introduced 

 simultaneously into both houses of the New York 

 Legislature to appropriate $90,000 for the con- 

 struction and equipment of a poultry husbandry 



