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managers of a poultry exhibition, by cooperating with a local agri- 

 cultural society or by direct application to the state department of 

 agriculture, to arrange for lectures to be given at the show under 

 the auspices of the agricultural department, in which case speakers 

 furnished by the department are paid by the state. If an associa- 

 tion has to provide speakers for its institute, it can often get a very 

 acceptable lecture, talk, or paper from some of its members, or from 

 persons in near-by towns, at very moderate cost. Institute work 

 should be a feature of every show where conditions admit, and 

 every effort should be made to use local poultry keepers in this line 

 of work, if only for five-minute talks. 



College poultry exhibitions. Poultry exhibitions at agricultural 

 colleges and schools call for special mention. It is not generally 

 practicable to make them competitive in the same sense as the 

 ordinary exhibition. The show is made for the students, the 

 object being to bring together a larger collection and a greater 

 variety of poultry than could be maintained for practice at the 

 college or school plant, and to give the students practice both in 

 judging and in the management of a poultry show. Shows of this 

 class are rarely so located that they can be made an attraction to 

 the sight-seeing public, but as they are not under expense for hall 

 rent, that is not a serious matter. The logical development of these 

 shows is along the line of closer correlation with the work of grad- 

 uates of the poultry courses. The poultry show of one year should 

 be made up, in part, of the exhibits of students in previous years, 

 and exhibits of results of their work with poultry, with full reports 

 on conditions and methods of production, should be required of 

 students seeking the fullest recognition of accomplishment that the 

 institution can give. While college shows are for the most part 

 insignificant at present, it is very plain that if they are so developed 

 that even a small proportion of the students of each class retain 

 their interest in the college exhibition after leaving the institution, 

 they will ultimately become large affairs, controlled by the techni- 

 cally educated poultry keepers of the state, and of great educa- 

 tional importance. In the agricultural college and school, more than 

 anywhere else, the conditions favor continuity and permanence of 

 exhibitions and the full development of the educational possibilities 

 of the poultry show. 



