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have exercised great influence for better poultry. They 

 have appealed more to the special poultry keeper than to the 

 farmer, yet they have led iii the dissemination of information 

 along special lines, and thousands of readers have been kept 

 informed by the poultry papers as to the progress being 

 made in the industry. "While making special appeals to the 

 fancier or breeder of standard-bred poultry, these publica- 

 tions have paid more or less attention to the productive side 

 of the industry, and they show a growing tendency to em- 

 phasize this. The general newspapers, both dailies and 

 weeklies, are devoting an increasing amount of space to the 

 campaign of poultry education. 



The poultry show has also been an important factor in 

 this development. It has afforded an opportunity for a 

 study of breeds and external characteristics, and created an 

 interest in the industry ; this, too, in spite of the fact that 

 the poultry show has been notoriously weighted down by 

 standards of judging that in some respects handicap rather 

 than encourage practical poultry breeding. 



Though coming into the field late, the experiment station 

 and the agricultural college have been rendering valuable 

 assistance through state and federal aid. The results of 

 investigations during the past fifteen years have been of dis- 

 tinct service to the industry ; so has the work of the college in 

 the teaching of students, and in institute work or extension 

 work. The demonstration trains, in which the railroads co- 

 operated with the colleges, have been the most successful 

 agency in getting the information directly to the people 

 interested. Moving picture films, industrial poultry con- 

 tests among the school children and laying contests, are other 

 agencies that are helping in the work of poultry develop- 

 ment. 



