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(Continued from Page 76) this question is in the hands of the chairman. It has been the object of this paper to give a brief summary of the information which is at hand. H. R. LEWIS,
j£t>ttortal An organization of individuals and institutions primarily engaged in instruction, investigation and extension in poultry husbandry. Publication Committee W. F. KIRKPATRICK, RAYMOND PEARL, JAMES E. RICE. Editor. HARRY R. LEWIS, New Brunswick, N .J. This Journal is published monthly for ten months each year. While published primarily for the use ol the members, additional copies may be secured for individual or library flies at the following rates: Subscription Price, $1.00 per year. Price of a single copy, 15 cents.
FARM POULTRY DEMONSTRATIONS IN INDIANA
AMHERST MEETING The programme of the sectional meeting to be held at the Massachusetts Agricultural College on July 27 th and 2 8th has been printed. A large attendance is hoped for, and the papers listed promise much interest and value to those attending. The meeting opens at 1:30 P. M. Friday, with an address of welcome by Dr. W. P. Brooks, Director of the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Let everyone come who can.
NORTH WESTERN MEETING Notices are out giving a call for a sectional meeting in the North West, including approximately twelve states and provinces of Canada. The call has been issued by Prof. Dryden, and it has been suggested that the meeting be held some time in August at a centralized point which is convenient to all. Let everyone located in this section communicate with Prof. Dryden immediately and thus insure the success of the meeting and a full and complete program. A special request is made by Prof. Dryden for as many Eastern men to attend the Western meeting as possible. Full notices of the final plans will be mailed to all members of the Association. ANNUAL REPORT Your secretary and editor is preparing the annual report of the society including the treasurer's report which after approval of the Executive Committee will be published in the next number of the journal. Let every member try and be present at one or more sectional meetings this summer, and if feasible, aid in organizing one in your community. 77
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Many problems confront the poultry extension worker. He is continually trying to devise new and better ways of getting to his people the best and most practical information available concerning poultry production and marketing. But the greatest problem of all is to get his people to put this knowledge into practice. A man attends a poultry lecture or visits a poultry educational exhibit and hears or sees something which applies to his home conditions. "That's good," he says, and makes a note of it. But unless he actually takes this information home and puts it into practice, the extension lecturer has done little but entertain an audience. Purdue has another peculiar problem to face in her poultry extension work. Indiana farmers are not poultrymen. They are well educated, industrious, wide awake. With corn, cattle and hogs they have madt money. In the past they have thought themselves too prosperous to make poultry anything but a neglected by-product. Only with a comparatively few years has there come to the Indiana farmer the realization of the need of conservation of farm products. Therefore, he is just awakening to the realization of his poultry possibilities, and his poultry education must start with elemental things. To meet these conditions, which differ so widely from conditions in other sections, Purdue is trying to teach first the fundamental principles of poultry work. And we use many ways to reach the poultry raisers of the state. Our farmers' institutes and traveling schools or short courses, our farmers' week at Purdue, our educational poultry trains, our educational exhibits at state and county fairs, chautauquas and poultry shows, all give practical information to many people. We reach many more through our work with the 35 Indiana county agents, our boys' and girls' club work, and our publications, press articles and correspondence. But in all of these lines of work we feel we have not reached our aim in as far as we have oftentimes merely carried information, with no certainty of its being used. Can we hope to do more than this? Our answer is our farm poultry demonstrations. Object: These farm poultry demonstrations are a project under the Smith-Lever plan. The object of the demonstration is to furnish the people of a locality not only one practical demonstration of money made and work saved by proper handling of the farm flock, but by personal work to use this one farm as a field laboratory, spreading the methods used to the many surrounding farms.
j£t>ttortal An organization of individuals and institutions primarily engaged in instruction, investigation and extension in poultry husbandry. Publication Committee W. F. KIRKPATRICK, RAYMOND PEARL, JAMES E. RICE. Editor. HARRY R. LEWIS, New Brunswick, N .J. This Journal is published monthly for ten months each year. While published primarily for the use ol the members, additional copies may be secured for individual or library flies at the following rates: Subscription Price, $1.00 per year. Price of a single copy, 15 cents.
FARM POULTRY DEMONSTRATIONS IN INDIANA
AMHERST MEETING The programme of the sectional meeting to be held at the Massachusetts Agricultural College on July 27 th and 2 8th has been printed. A large attendance is hoped for, and the papers listed promise much interest and value to those attending. The meeting opens at 1:30 P. M. Friday, with an address of welcome by Dr. W. P. Brooks, Director of the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. Let everyone come who can.
NORTH WESTERN MEETING Notices are out giving a call for a sectional meeting in the North West, including approximately twelve states and provinces of Canada. The call has been issued by Prof. Dryden, and it has been suggested that the meeting be held some time in August at a centralized point which is convenient to all. Let everyone located in this section communicate with Prof. Dryden immediately and thus insure the success of the meeting and a full and complete program. A special request is made by Prof. Dryden for as many Eastern men to attend the Western meeting as possible. Full notices of the final plans will be mailed to all members of the Association. ANNUAL REPORT Your secretary and editor is preparing the annual report of the society including the treasurer's report which after approval of the Executive Committee will be published in the next number of the journal. Let every member try and be present at one or more sectional meetings this summer, and if feasible, aid in organizing one in your community. 77
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Many problems confront the poultry extension worker. He is continually trying to devise new and better ways of getting to his people the best and most practical information available concerning poultry production and marketing. But the greatest problem of all is to get his people to put this knowledge into practice. A man attends a poultry lecture or visits a poultry educational exhibit and hears or sees something which applies to his home conditions. "That's good," he says, and makes a note of it. But unless he actually takes this information home and puts it into practice, the extension lecturer has done little but entertain an audience. Purdue has another peculiar problem to face in her poultry extension work. Indiana farmers are not poultrymen. They are well educated, industrious, wide awake. With corn, cattle and hogs they have madt money. In the past they have thought themselves too prosperous to make poultry anything but a neglected by-product. Only with a comparatively few years has there come to the Indiana farmer the realization of the need of conservation of farm products. Therefore, he is just awakening to the realization of his poultry possibilities, and his poultry education must start with elemental things. To meet these conditions, which differ so widely from conditions in other sections, Purdue is trying to teach first the fundamental principles of poultry work. And we use many ways to reach the poultry raisers of the state. Our farmers' institutes and traveling schools or short courses, our farmers' week at Purdue, our educational poultry trains, our educational exhibits at state and county fairs, chautauquas and poultry shows, all give practical information to many people. We reach many more through our work with the 35 Indiana county agents, our boys' and girls' club work, and our publications, press articles and correspondence. But in all of these lines of work we feel we have not reached our aim in as far as we have oftentimes merely carried information, with no certainty of its being used. Can we hope to do more than this? Our answer is our farm poultry demonstrations. Object: These farm poultry demonstrations are a project under the Smith-Lever plan. The object of the demonstration is to furnish the people of a locality not only one practical demonstration of money made and work saved by proper handling of the farm flock, but by personal work to use this one farm as a field laboratory, spreading the methods used to the many surrounding farms.