Securing Cooperation for Poultry Projects

Abstract

An extension poultry specialist in any one of the central western states, where poultry is an important side line on practically every farm, if he takes his job seriously and feels that he owes an obligation to every poultry keeper in the state, has a tremendous responsibility on his hands. In Missouri we have about 265,000 farms keeping a total of some 24,000,000 hens, with an average egg production, according to the 1920 census, of 55.5 eggs per bird.

If the poultry specialist decides under conditions such as these that hrs principal job is to assist in increasing the average egg production in the state, if he is to make any particular impression on his field or is to come any ways near solving his problem, he must secure the cooperation of all available educational agencies which might help in solving the problem.

As extension work is now generally organized, . . .