EXPERIMENT STATION WORK 
Massachusetts proved that corn was a better food for lay- 
ers than wheat, and that the prejudice against it was founded 
on a misapplied theory. 
The New York Station at Geneva demonstrated that poultry 
generally, and ducks in particular, are not vegetarians, and 
must have meat to thrive and that vegetable protein will not 
make good the deficiency. 
The Maine Station was chifly instrumental in introducing 
trap-nests, curtain front houses and dry feeding. The breed- 
ing work at Maine will be discussed at length in the last sec- 
tion of this chapter. 
The United States Department of Agriculture did not take 
up poultry work until 1906. The publications issued by the 
department before that time were written by outsiders and 
printed by the Government. 
The following is the list of the addresses of the experiment 
stations who have taken a leading interest in poultry work. 
It is not worth while giving a list of poultry bulletins, as many 
of them are out of print and can only be consulted in a 
library. 
Maine—Orono. Towa—Ames. 
Mass.—Anmherst. Kansas—Manhattan. 
Conn.—Storrs. Utah—Logan. 
Rhode Is.—Kingston. Calif.—Berkeley. 
New York—Ithaca. Oregon—Corvalis. 
New York—Geneva. U. S. Gov.— Washington, D. C. 
Maryland—College Park. Ontario—Guelph (Canada). 
West: Va.—Morgantown. 
Many foreign governments have us out-distanced in the 
encouragement of the poultry industry. Our Canadian neigh- 
bors have done much more practical work in getting out 
among the farmers and improving the stock and methods 
along commercial lines. As a result the Canadians have built 
up a nice British trade with which we have thus far not been 
able to compete. The work by the Ontario Station on the 
subject of incubation is discussed in the Chapter on Incuba- 
tion. 
Australia, like Canada, has given much practical assistance 
in marketing the poultry products, the government maintain- 
ing packing stations, where the poultry is packed for export. 
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