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First Wori-d Congress on Poi^ltry. 



[Apr.; 



lional methods, results of research, and the special literature 

 of various countries. The main purposes of the Congress are 

 to stimulate interest in poultry-keeping, and all matters 

 relating thereto, to co-ordinate education and research in 

 poultry-keeping in all countries, and to educate poultry- 

 keepers in the most efficient and practical methods. 



The titles of the sections and sub-sections afford sufficient 

 indication of the exhaustive nature of the discussions and 

 demonstrations to be held during the sittings of the Congress. 

 There are four main sections, the first dealing with experi- 

 ments, investigations, the science of breeding and its practical 

 application, systems of incubation, brooding, general manage- 

 ment and rearing. The second section will be concerned with 

 State and official action, including reconstruction, together 

 with opportunities for women in the poultry industry. It will 

 consider also international and national trade in eggs, co-opera- 

 tion and the organisation of poultry societies. The third 

 section is concerned with hygiene and diseases, and the 

 fourth section will discuss the training and the necessary 

 qualifications of instructors, and deal generally with education 

 and demonstration work, as well as with the organisation and 

 influence of Exhibition and Laying Trials. Nearly 100 

 different papers have been projected and these will be read 

 by men and women of the highest authority in the poultry 

 world. From the titles of these papers it will be seen into 

 what an extraordinary number of subsidiary, although 

 important, departments this industry is divided. Among 

 readers in the first section occurs the name of Professor 

 Punnett, who will lecture on his own subject — " Mendelism: 

 the Poultry Industry and the Fancy." Professor Graham, 

 from Guelph, Canada, will discuss the science of breeding 

 and its practical application. Professor Chas. Voitellier, 

 Professor of Poultry Husbandry, Paris, will be heard on the 

 scientific bases of balanced feeding of fowls, with a discussion 

 of variations in weight and composition of eggs, (i) in different 

 periods during the time of laying of the same hen, and (2) on 

 hens of different breeds. 



In the Women's Section some interesting papers will be 

 given upon woman's sphere as an instructor m poultry-keeping, 

 and the charge of small animals. This will ])e considered as 

 a home industry for women. Among papers dealing with 

 breeding, visitors will hear an account of American methods of 

 packing and marketing. In the section of hygiene, matters 



