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INTRODUCTION 



In addition to the regular business, a part of the time is 

 devoted to discussion of the work of the different students. 

 A good plan is to secure some successful poultryman in the 

 vicinity to address the meeting for from ten to fifteen minutes, 

 on some simple phase of the management of poultry. It 

 is wonderful what enthusiasm boys and girls from ten to 

 sixteen years of age will develop in a study of this kind, if 

 they are approached in the right manner, and are allowed to 

 share largely in the responsibility of the work. 



Fig. 4. — This young man bred and raised this prize-winning Plymouth Roclc. 

 It is needless to say that his interest in poultry raising is unbounded. (Photo by 

 N. E. Chapman.) 



The primary object of the poultry club is threefold. 

 First, to awaken greater interest by allowing the student 

 personal oversight. Second, to arouse the interest of the 

 community. Third, to have some official organization 

 through which Poultry Raising and Egg Laying Contests can 

 be conducted (Fig. 4) . The method which has been followed 

 in New Jersey, and has been very successful, is to organize two 

 contests, one elementary and one advanced. The elementary 



