INSTRUCTION IN POULTRY HUSBANDRY 3 



of the poultry classes must be steadily progressive, and should 

 begin in the kindergarten, where, by the use of eggs and 

 feathers, the students may become acquainted with things 

 that pertain to animal life. This type of instruction in the 

 primary grades will foster in the student a craving for and 

 a deeper interest in poultry husbandry when he takes it up 

 as a definite study. Such general instruction might be 

 termed elementary; it should deal only with color, shape, 

 form, etc. Next should come secondary instruction, so out- 

 lined as to cover in an elementary way the simple operations 

 necessary for the care and management of a small flock of 

 birds. It should give to boys and girls of grammar and high 

 school age enough of management and business methods to 

 make them wish for more, and to prepare them for the more 

 detailed, scientific work which will follow. This is the class 

 of students which this book is designed to reach. Next should 

 come collegiate instruction, comprising a short, two-year, 

 and a regular four-year course, leading to the B.S. degree. 

 Here should be reviewed the elementary instruction received 

 in the lower grades. The course should also embrace in 

 minute detail all of the scientific problems involved. Col- 

 legiate instruction should prepare a student to better 

 manage a commercial farm or go into the actual work of 

 experimenting in and teaching poultry husbandry. It is 

 becoming more and more popular every year. The results 

 of the next type of instruction, called extension work, are 

 far reaching. This is primarily demonstrative in its nature. 

 It is designed to teach farmers of all ages and varying degrees 

 of education, the procedures necessary to the successful 

 operation of their plants. It should demonstrate all of the 

 new methods and facts, as they are from time to time dis- 

 covered, and the instruction should be practical, and appli- 

 cable to their particular line of work (Fig. 2). 



The Poultry Schedule. — In outlining an elementary course 

 in poultry husbandry, the aim should be to introduce it 



