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gradually into the curriculum, without materially reducing 

 the time allotted to other subjects. In arranging such a 

 schedule, it is a good plan to devote three recitation hours 



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Fig. 2. — Systematic instruction in poultry is necessary. The great mass of 

 pupils will receive what poultry instruction they will ever obtain between the ages 

 of ten and eighteen years or during their years in grammar and high school. With 

 this elementary training they go directly into practical work where henceforth 

 they can get additional information only through extension teaching. A very 

 small proportion of young men and women ever hmc the opportunity of a col- 

 legiate training in poultry keeping. 



a week to the subject, preferably on alternate days; for 

 example, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. If laboratory 

 work is to be combined with recitation work, one afternoon 



