58 PRESENT STATUS OF POULTRY INVESTIGATION 



greater body of substantial facts on all phases of the subject concerned. 

 When these facts have been secured, it will be time enough to read into 

 them, and out of them, the principles of breeding, the principles of poultry 

 feeding, and the principles of the causation and treatment of poultry 

 diseases. With respect to the fundamental principles which underlie all 

 these branches, we are still very much in the dark, but the increasing en- 

 thusiasm for work in solving the problems of poultry, if united with a wise 

 discretion as to what problems an investigator or an institution is best fitted 

 to take up, will assuredly, in the near future, yield results of rich profit. 



