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POULTRY SCHOOLS 



Sixty-five Great Schools in Line — The Schools as Short 

 Cuts — " Specializing " — Expenses at Cornell — Cer- 

 tificates of Proficiency — Accommodations — Connecti- 

 cut's courses — Neither Pains nor Expense Spared — 

 Pennsylvania Offerings — Poultry and Fruit — Work 

 at Various Stations 



The latest information at my command states that 

 courses of instruction in agriculture are now given in 65 

 of our colleges and universities, these being in operation 

 in every state. None are credited to Alaska. It is my 

 impression that Alaska has now been added to the list 

 of commonwealths giving poultry instruction ; although 

 not in a college, it may be. The report says : " About 

 50 of these institutions also provide special, short, and 

 correspondence courses in the different branches of 

 agriculture, including agronomy, horticulture, animal 

 husbandry, poultry raising, cheese making, dairying, 

 sugar making, rural engineering, farm mechanics, and 

 other technical subjects. With few exceptions, each of 

 these colleges offers free tuition to residents of the 

 state in which it is located. In all the excepted cases, 

 scholarships are open to promising and energetic stu- 

 dents ; and, in all, opportunities are found for some to 

 earn part of their expenses by their own labor." Thus, 

 tliere is no need for the Beginner who is free to go and 

 come and in good health to assume the risks zuhteh aeeom- 

 pany taking up a business of which he knoivs nothing. 



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