Efficient Method of Teaching Commercial Poultry Finishing Work to Students in Agricultural Colleges

Abstract

It has been our experience that the student gets more out of his studies if we give practical work with the theoretical. W e teach the student the fundamental factors to be taken into consideration in making feed mixtures for the various forms of live stock kept on the farm, bu t for lack of proper and sufficient equipment we give the student little, if any actual practice feeding, letting him note the effect of the various feeds fed to such live stock, with reference to the gain in weight, milk or egg production, and noting at the same time the general condition of the animal or bird under consideration.

It is the hope of the writers that this article will give helpful suggestions and make it a simple matter whereby it will be possible for the Poultry Departments of the leading agricultural colleges and schools to give its students . . .