274 THE BEGINNER IN POULTRY 



This circular was for the tenth annual course. A poul- 

 try judge was specially engaged to be present during 

 the entire course, instructing in all points covered by 

 professional judges and necessary to the breeding and 

 exhibiting fancier. Professor F. H. Stoneburn is the 

 leader in Poultry Husbandry at Storrs at the present 



Maine put out advertising in the best poultry papers, 

 in November, 1910, giving the lure of her work in the 

 "Study of Poultry Husbandry." I quote: "The Uni- 

 versity is endeavoring to offer as full and complete 

 courses in Poultry Husbandry as it possibly can, and 

 will spare no pains nor expense to put its instructional 

 work on an equally high basis with its experimental 

 work." The two plants for these two classes of work 

 are entirely separate. Maine offers five choices in poul- 

 try work for students : (a) that in the regular Four Years' 

 Course, leading to a degree in connection with other 

 agricultural work ; (b) the same in the Two- Year School 

 Course ; (c) The Three Weeks' Short Course ; (d) The 

 Three Weeks' Short Course ; (e) The Poultry Institute. 

 No tuition fees for the short term work. " Expense for 

 books is small. Board and room can be obtained at 

 reasonable rates." Maine has gotten a hold which has 

 been slow in coming to the poultry schools. It states : 

 " Many farmers and their sons and daughters take the 

 shorter course in order to be better prepared to make 

 money with poultry on the farm." When this work was 

 in its infancy in this country, almost none of the farm 

 youth presented themselves as students. Better pros- 

 pects and more available information have doubtless led 

 to betterment along this line. And, I desire to call at- 



