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hand in it. A chief textbook used at Cornell is the 

 work of the man who instituted the first poultry short 

 course in the United States, Professor A. A. Brigham, 

 now of the South Dakota Station. The poultry papers 

 number scores many scores. Some are born and some 

 die, each year, so that it is difficult to know the exact 

 number. Many of the editors find time to write poultry 



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books, and I have known some of them long enough to 

 know that they are themselves learners, gaining some- 

 thing each year. I would not trust any business man 

 who was not of this caliber ! The United States govern- 

 ment has put out poultry bulletins as needed. Indeed, 

 I have in my library an old United States bibliography 

 of poultry literature, giving twenty-nine large pages 

 merely to list the poultry publications then in existence, 

 including some English and French monographs and 

 larger books. If such was our wealth nearly fifteen 

 years ago, what of the present ? The more marvelous 

 growth of the industry has been made, and all the work 

 of the poultry schools has been done within that period. 



