PREFACE 



THIS poultry laboratory manual has been planned for use wherever 

 poultry husbandry is taught, whether high school or college. The sequence 

 and distribution of exercises are especially planned to accompany the text- 

 book, "Productive Poultry Husbandry," published by the J. B. Lippincott 

 Company. Where more than forty-four laboratory periods are available, 

 a number of the exercises are so planned that they can be extended over a 

 greater length of time. On the other hand, where a fewer number of labora- 

 tory periods are available certain of the exercises can be omitted or grouped 

 with adjoining ones. The exercises have been planned to occupy laboratory 

 periods having two or more hours to the period. 



The equipment necessary to properly perform the exercises outlined is 

 such as would be required on any well-managed poultry farm. Every effort 

 has been made to keep the exercises as practical as possible. These exercises 

 have all been used by the writer in connection with teaching work at the 

 New Jersey State Agricultural College. It is believed that more attention 

 and system to the laboratory method of instruction will greatly increase the 

 fund of information which the student secures from the study of the text. 



Although the exercises are arranged to correspond with the text-book 

 above-mentioned, it is not necessary to follow this order. The instructor 

 should frequently glance over the table of contents and select those exercises 

 best suited to the season and to the material available at the time. For 

 example, when disease occurs in a flock, the study of diseases should be 

 assigned. The alert instructor will constantly watch for the most suitable 

 time for each exercise. 



Some of the best practice for students is acquired by daily care of stock, 

 both young and mature. They should have the responsibility and practice 

 of caring for incubators, hatching hens, brooder chicks, laying stock, etc. 



This should include cleaning, feeding, housing, yarding, record-keeping, etc. 



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