TYPES OF INSTRUCTION 3 
dents but to all persons interested in the keeping of poultry, 
whether beginners or experienced farmers. Such instruction gives 
to the poultryman at his home the latest knowledge pertaining 
to his work. It shows in a concise manner the results of recent 
investigation and its practical application. 
Some of the methods of extension work are as follows: (1) 
Extension lectures before agricultural and special poultry gather- 
ings. (2) Railroad-train trips through centres of poultry produc- 
tion (Fig 1). Teaching carried on by lectures and educational 
exhibits. (3) Educational exhibits at fairs, poultry shows, and 
grange picnics (Fig. 2). (4) The publication at regular intervals 
Fia. 2.—A type.of poultry educational exhibit. 
of home-reading-course circulars which tell in a concise way the 
practical application of the latest findings from poultry experi- 
ments. (5) Demonstrations showing improved and scientific 
methods, such as killing, picking, caponizing, grading, and packing. 
Correspondence courses allow of individual study of a prepared 
set of lessons and practices; the benefit obtained depends upon 
the practicability and completeness of the outlined lessons, and 
the ability of the student to grasp the meaning and to pursue the 
course until finished. The failure'to study all lessons to the end 
of the course often results in little good to those who attempt to 
gain their knowledge in this way. 
