POULTRY PATHOLOGY 



ITS PLACE IN THE CURRICULUM I 

 BY GEO. BYRON MORSE 



One's answer to a question depends upon the viewpoint. At a Civil 

 Service examination, to the question "What does a perfectly equipped 

 power house need?" a dubious but resourceful candidate answered, 

 "Nothing." His viewpoint was different from that of the examiner. 

 "What position shall the study of disease occupy in the Poultry Husbandry 

 course?" is answered by the writer thus : "A, if not THE MOST PROMINENT 

 PLACE." 



Poultry Husbandry should include three groups of studies : Zootechny, 

 Economics and Hygiene. Although naming it third in the list I do not 

 hesitate to affirm that in the most subtle manner Poultry Hygiene assumes 

 first place in the operations of a poultry man. 



Poultry Zootechny is that branch of poultry husbandry that has for its 

 object the study of alimentation and reproduction, or, to use an expression 

 that means less and yet is truer to the actual condition of things, the prac- 

 tice of feeding and breeding. 



Poultry Economics is that branch of poultry husbandry that is occupied 

 with the commercial aspect of poultry farming, particularly the marketing 

 of poultry and eggs. 



Poultry Hygiene is that branch of poultry husbandry that concerns itself 

 with the maintenance of the health of poultry. 



Which, now, of these three branches of poultry husbandry is most 

 important? Please do not think me immodest when I tell you that I 

 consider the last named Hygiene by far the most important. It is 

 natural for the specialist in each one of these lines to feel that his work is 

 THE work. For him, it is. 



If one studies the catalogs of the many different Agricultural Colleges 

 he will be struck with the marked absence of poultry hygiene or poultry 

 pathology from the curriculum. But its absence is not the reason that I 

 believe it is the most important or the most to be sought after. 



Hygiene when operating in its widest yet legitimate scope is practically 

 coextensive with Biology. This involves every phase and condition of the 

 living organism ; it also includes all those subtle relationships of the physical 

 sciences with what we call the science of life. Biology started out to be the 

 science of the living organism in its normal condition; it was soon apparent, 



Reprint from the Ontario Agricultural College Review. 



