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and more general biological problems, would have their outlook 

 narrowed. It seems probable that better work would be done 

 in places where problems relative to mammals were also being 

 investigated. Breeding experiments would be more fruitful of 

 useful data if they were conducted alongside investigations 

 bearing on the same questions as applicable to animals other 

 than poultry. Investigations relative to dietetics could scarcely 

 be profitably separated from the work of existing nutrition labora- 

 tories; nor would it be altogether wise to separate the study of 

 avian diseases from that of mammalian pathology. On careful 

 consideration, it appears probable that in practice the paopt 

 satisfactory way of fostering poultry research will be found to 

 be- by encouraging existing institutions to extend knowledge that 

 can be disseminated by a central organisation, to which the 

 poultry-keeper may look for information, guidance, and advice. 



