SCOTT] POULTRY WORK 21 



Last year several thousand chickens of various kinds were raised. 

 Many of them eaten later by the girls themselves in the college 

 dormitory and hundreds of dozens of eggs obtained for use in the 

 incubators and kitchens. 



The question rises in problems of this kind as to the purpose 

 of the course — whether we were to raise chickens for show or 

 to use them as any school uses a laboratory. In the latter case- 

 where untrained students have control of the stock and machines 

 we cannot expect ideal results. In spite of this fact, however, 

 very fair hatches were brought off and less than the average 

 number of chicks died during brooding period. 



The results of such work as this cannot be clearly seen for a 

 number of years. In actual class work we have about one hundred 

 and forty girls a year. This represents not only our senior class 

 but also as many others as the equipment will allow to elect the 

 work. 



The chickens are used in our training school classes for study 

 with the young children in their nature work. 



It has been found out that a number of girls after leaving college 

 have continued the work in other schools. One girl for instance 

 bought a small pen of chickens for her school — used all the eggs 

 she needed in their domestic science work, sold sufficient to pay 

 the expenses for feed and at the end of the school year the children 

 sold the hens for enough to pay their original cost. 



The use of poultry in the rural schools as a type of animal 

 study should be a very valuable practice. 



The scientific methods of care, feeding, and breeding of all 

 stock are much alike. The advantage of poultry being that the 

 school's plant can be cheaply equipped and easily cared for. 



Probably a value as great as the one just suggested, however, 

 lies in the fact that many families living in the country and in 

 small communities, as do the majority of people in Georgia, will 

 keep chickens in order to reduce the cost of living. These girls 

 are then being prepared well along this line for their future life in 

 the school and home and we look in the not distant future to see 

 many of them happier and more prosperous with this added 

 stimulus of a good hobby. 



