BY GEO. B. MORSE 113 



economics was the chief thing. And the writer, as a pathologist, agreed 

 with her. But Hygiene, incarnate in the Poultry Pathologist of an Agri- 

 cultural College must furnish to poultrymen, who are breeding, feeding and 

 marketing, such data as is contained in Bulletin 166 of the Maine Agricult- 

 ural Experiment Station. On page 83 of this bulletin, Doctors Pearl and 

 Surface, in their summary, state, "The daughters of '200-egg' hens were in 

 this experiment very much inferior to their mothers in average egg pro- 

 duction." 



Even though Hygiene may not yet be given a distinctly separate place 

 in the curriculum of poultry studies, still Pathology, as a chief division of 

 that subject, might be allowed to dominate the teaching. Let me show 

 you what I mean. Anatomy and Physiology are taught in the schools at 

 present, but, I think I can safely say, largely with reference to alimentation 

 and reproduction, especially as bearing upon the commercial side of poultry 

 culture. Let it be taught also with reference to disease. Study the 

 anatomy and physiology of the eye, nose and throat as being the seat respec- 

 tively of ocular, nasal, oral and pharyngeal roup. Study the windpipe of 

 chicks as being the seat of gape disease so as to understand why one gape 

 worm might be the cause of death and also to appreciate the difficulties 

 attendant upon some of the proposed instrumental measures recommended 

 for the cure of the disease. Learn the anatomy and physiology of the air 

 sacs so that you may realize better the dangers connected with the air 

 sac mite. Learn all you can about the ceca, their structure and function, 

 and then remember that they are the usual seat of intestinal coccidiosis. 

 Study the cloaca in order that you may be familiar with the locality which 

 you should sometimes carefully investigate and explore with a well-vaselined 

 finger in search for an obstructing egg or fecal concretion. 



No more important industry exists today than poultry. Its position 

 among the industries is growing in recognition. The colleges must come to 

 honor it as it deserves. The writer believes that a whole four year course of 

 studies in an Agricultural College could be built up around Poultry. It 

 would be a masterly move on the part of the instructors in poultry hus- 

 bandry to map out such a course and thus prove to young men and women 

 that in fitting themselves to run intelligently a poultry farm they would be 

 securing a broad training involving not only a fundamental general science 

 course but also a technical agricultural education that would include every 

 phase of farm life, thus enabling the graduate poultryman to meet every 

 requirement for the well-being (health) of his flock. 



