Instruction in Poultry Keeping. [may, 



Northern Area. — Quebec Chambers, Quebec Street, Leeds. 

 Southern Area. — 27, High Street, Salisbury. 

 Eastern Area. — Room 104, Charing Cross Huts, London, W.C. 

 Western Area. — (Now incorporated with Northern and Southern 

 Areas.) 



Purchasers might also consult Surplus, the organ of the 

 Disposals Board. It is published on the ist and 15th of each 

 month, and can be obtained at any railway bookstall, or through 

 any bookseller or stationer (price 3^^.). 



Where the minimum quantity sold of any article required 

 is too large for individual requirements, farmers should co- 

 operate in a joint purchase. This is already being done in a 

 large number of cases. 



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The Ministry has recently addressed to County Committees 

 a memorandum containing suggestions as to methods which 

 Instruction in ^^^^^^^ followed to assist in the de- 



PonltJy keeping, velopment of the poultry industry. The 

 memorandum lays special stress upon 

 the urgent need of systematic instruction by highly qualified 

 lecturers. It is suggested that these lecturers should work in 

 circuits at various county centres, giving, as far as possible, 

 four lectures at each centre during each month, and that care 

 should be taken to ensure that the instruction provided is 

 suited to the needs of the particular district. In the more 

 open agricultural areas lecturers should pay special attention 

 to the problems of adapting poultry keeping to the regular 

 routine business of the farm, so as to give the poultry full 

 advantage of natural foods and waste ground, and let the soil 

 receive the full benefit of the droppings from the poultry. 

 Other more important questions for poultry keepers in such 

 areas to consider are those connected with rearing and selling 

 yoimg stock. 



In the more urban areas, lecturers would do well to train 

 poultry keepers in the scientific maintenance of adult stock, 

 and in methods of intensive and semi-intensive housing. 

 Each circuit should have its own syllabus prepared in accordance 

 with its local requirements. These should be drawn up by the 

 Instructor and previously submitted for the Committee's 

 approval. A model syllabus might include some or all the 

 following subjects : — Capital outlay and probable returns ; 

 housing and laying out of plant ; breeds and breeding ; foods 

 and method of feeding ; hatching anc? rearing ; winter eg^ 

 production ; prevention and treatment of disease ; account 

 keeping ; marketing ; management of labour ; poultry keeping 



