Excerpt from Poultry Laboratory Manual and Note Book

This poultry laboratory manual has been planned for use wherever poultry husbandry is taught, whether high school or college. The sequence and distribution Of exercises are especially planned to accompany the text book, Productive Poultry Husbandry, published by the J. B. Lippincott Company. Where more than forty-four laboratory periods are available, a number Of the exercises are so planned that they can be extended over a greater length of time. On the other hand, where a fewer number of labora tory periods are available certain Of the exercises can be omitted or grouped with adjoining ones. The exercises have been planned to occupy laboratory periods having two or more hours to the period.

The equipment necessary to properly perform the exercises outlined is such as would be required on any well-managed poultry farm. Every effort has been made to keep the exercises as practical as possible. These exercises have all been used by the writer in connection with teaching work at the New Jersey State Agricultural College. It is believed that more attention and system to the laboratory method Of instruction will greatly increase the fund Of information which the student secures from the study of the text.

Although the exercises are arranged to correspond with the text-book above-mentioned, it is not necessary to follow this order. The instructor should frequently glance over the table of contents and select those exercises best suited to the season and to the material available at the time. For example, when disease occurs in a flock, the study of diseases should be assigned. The alert instructor will constantly watch for the most suitable time for each exercise.

Some of the best practice for students is acquired by daily care of stock, both young and mature. They should have the responsibility and practice of caring for incubators, hatching hens, brooder chicks, laying stock, etc.

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