REFERENCE READING 5 
There are many more important laboratory operations of a 
scientific nature. 
Reference Reading.—All lectures and discussions should be 
accompanied by a required amount of outside reading. The 
best books and periodicals should be recommended, and from the 
results of such reading written or oral reviews should be given. 
Poultry literature from the Department of Agriculture and the 
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Photo by Cornell University. 
Fig. 4.—Students killing and picking poultry. 
various experiment stations should be freely used in reference 
work. Any one may obtain poultry publications from the experi- 
ment station of his own State by having his name placed upon 
the mailing list. 
Current poultry journals should be freely used with the definite 
idea of becoming acquainted with the poultry problems of the day. 
Modern up-to-date poultry text-books should be used as refer- 
ence, and the student should be encouraged to purchase a few of 
the best, such publications to form a nucleus for his own library. 
Reference reading should not be confined alone to poultry 
