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poultry work, and Cornell's aim is no less than to train 

 leaders who will aid in the uplift work all along the 

 line. Incidentally, they will be a link between the 

 University and the farms. This will be touched upon 

 again in another chapter. 



Special models put forth by Cornell Experiment 

 Station include fresh-air and winter houses, coops, 

 shipping boxes, rat-proof feed hoppers, etc. Pho- 

 tographs of all helpful Cornell appliances appear in 

 the bulletins, and clear descriptions accompany these. 

 Duplicates of the pictures are sold for a nominal price ; 

 they may be used in other publications, due credit being 

 given. 



The development of the modern poultry supply house 

 is one of the accompanying wonders of the amazing 

 enlargement of the poultry industry. It is the Be- 

 ginner who pays for far the greater part of these varied 

 offerings. The stock of such a house comprises, in 

 some cases, about all the legitimate poultry books 

 published; in others, a supply of the cheaper ones 

 in each division (breeds, houses, squabs, eggs, cavies, 

 profits, specialties, etc.) perhaps described as "a 

 large portion of the most popular poultry books." 

 One such list before me contains not even one of the 

 newer and better books. 



Aside from books, the supplies cover incubators, 

 brooders, and fixtures, portable houses and weaning 

 coops, patent roofings and building papers, specially 

 manufactured feeders, foods, mills, and cutters for vari- 

 ous purposes ; shipping boxes and coops, poultry exer- 

 cisers, fountains, sieves and screens, spraying machines, 

 nests and nest eggs, disinfectants, song bird supplies, 



