Concerning Hen Feathering

Abstract

Our knowledge of the reproductive organs of the bird is wholly inadequate for people who are supposed to be experts, capable of recommending proper procedure to the practical poultryman. Sometimes we are somewhat more experienced operators than the everyday chicken man, but when it comes to real expert knowledge such as a technical man uses in the manufacture of machinery, the chicken industry has to shift as best it can. To remedy this condition, we are studying the reproductive organs, both from a histological as well as physiological standpoint. We want to know all that it is possible to find out about these organs and when we have this knowledge we will be in a position to use such parts of it as are needed in practical poultry keeping. Some of us, at least, need this knowledge just as the automotive engineer needs to know a lot of things that . . .