Report of the Poultryman 

To the Director of the Storrs Agricultural Experiment 
Station: 
Sir :—Interest in poultry culture is becoming greater each 
year, and with this growth of interest comes a greater de- 
mand for reliable poultry literature. This forces us not only 
to take up research work from a strictly scientific point, 
but also to do a considerable amount of general investigat- 
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_ The hopper methods of feeding with an idea as to whether 
the amount of labor saved is more than offset by a lower 
production of eggs is being carefully tested, as is also the 
general physical condition of the fowls and of their off- 
spring. Ai Ae 
During the last year a house with a capacity for two 
hundred hens has been equipped with trap nests. The 
chicks from the hens in this house are receiving special 
attention not only as to their future productiveness, but as 
to their general vitality, taking into consideration the many 
different conditions under which they are being hatched and 
reared. It has already become quite noticeable that certain 
hens produced eggs that would hatch and the chicks would 
live under the poorest conditions, while with other hens it 
took much care to hatch the eggs, and more to keep the 
chicks alive. Again the conditions such as brooders, feed, 
etc., which appeared favorable for the chicks of one hen 
had an entirely different effect on those from another hen. 
This, and similar work, requires an immense amount of 
detail both in records and care, and naturally, necessitates 
the services of competent but expensive assistants. Before . 
last year this would have been impossible, but with the 
