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Poultry Institute on Wheels. - The results are considerable. 

 Collecting depots have been established at four centres ; the 

 important place which poultry should hold in relation to general 

 farming has received recognition to an extent never known 

 before ; and the educational value of this demonstration train 

 has been manifested, not alone by increased production, but by 

 adoption of better methods of marketing, and by a striking 

 advance in the values of eggs, especially throughout the various 

 districts visited, in some instances as much as 2s. per great 

 hundred. 



This widespread interest in the egg and poultry train 

 experiment has led to definite demands that similar trains 

 should be run in North Wales and in Dorset and Wilts. At 

 least a dozen other trains have also been suggested, and 

 offers have been received from various railway companies to 

 afford facilities on their respective systems ; but inasmuch 

 as the cost of such a train is considerable, the two societies 

 which defrayed the entire expense on the first occasion feel 

 that they could not bear the financial responsibility unaided 

 in other parts of the country as well, and the question arises 

 whether the running of demonstration trains of the kind in 

 question might not be regarded as a branch of educational 

 effort which the Development Commissioners or the County 

 Councils would be warranted in assisting. 



POULTRY INDUSTRY INSTRUCTION. 



The whole subject of poultry industry instruction requires 

 reconsideration from a national standpoint. We are 

 notoriously behind other countries in the matter. In 

 Canada and the United States the poultry industry has 

 undergone remarkable expansion ; but this fact is not sur- 

 prising considering that sixty-five experts are there engaged 

 in poultry teaching and investigation at agricultural colleges 

 and experimental stations. " Guelph College, Ontario/' it 

 is said in an article in The Times of August 26th, 1912, 

 on " The Poultry Industry and its Future," " has earned 

 a world- wide reputation for successful experiment and 

 research ; the MacDonald College of St. Anne-de-Bellevue, 

 in the Province of Quebec, possesses a poultry plant larger 



