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Show Gunnison Instructor At Summer School I. L. Henr'e, agricultural supervisor super-visor at the Gunnison Valley high school, is attending, with the other leading agriculture instructors in the west, the Utah State Agricultural Agricultur-al college summer school for a s cial two weeks course on "Poultry Husbandry." Dr. L. E. Card, head of the poultry department at the University Uni-versity of Ill'nois, is conducting the class and is being assisted by Byron Alder, Agricultural college professor. Dr. Card is the leading authority on poultry in the United States and has written four popular textbooks on the subject. He was formerly the editor edi-tor of Poultry Science, a magazine publ'shed in Menasha, Wis. The first week of the course will take up the problems of genetics and breeding. The second will deal with nutrition and feeding. Finding the class extremely interesting, the students stu-dents are spending almost the ent're time of some phase of poultry. Each day from 9 to 11 a. m. a two-hour lecture is given. From 1 :30 to 3 p. m. an open forum is conducted where all questions are answered and discussed. discuss-ed. At 3 and until 4:30 p. m. a laboratory labor-atory class is held. Dr. Card Is quite fortunate to give this course at the Utah State Agricultural college, where he has access to the vast flocks of poultry ma'ntained by the college and where the class can review the experimental work accomplished. |