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PSC. Poultry Science Collections
Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:
Albert Wade Brant Collection
Intercollegiate Poultry Judging Contest Records
The Intercollegiate Poultry Judging Contest Records consist of five bound volumes listing poultry judging team members and coaches, and the names of the institutions that sponsored the teams. Also included are pictures of the winning team members and coaches.
Rupert Coles Papers
The Rupert Coles Papers consist of Christmas cards created from Coles's original artwork.
Arthur Francis Gannon Papers
The Arthur Francis Gannon Papers include correspondence and articles relating to Gannon's poultry projects.
James M. Gwin Collection
The James M. Gwin Collection contains approximately 50,000 items of poultry information resources. It consists primarily of business correspondence pertaining to several poultry associations, catalogs from poultry equipment manufacturing firms, documents about early breeders in the poultry industry, egg and poultry legislation, papers on industry meetings held in various states of the United States, and miscellaneous publication clippings related to the egg and poultry industry.
Poultry and Egg National Board Records
The Poultry and Egg National Board Records include board meeting minutes, financial statements, annual reports, egg promotional material, new product research, cholesterol and fat studies, diet and nutritional cookbooks, reports of the American Home Economics Association conferences, and reports of the 1969 White House Conference on Nutrition.
Cackelator Poultry Feed Calculator
The Cackelator is an electronic instrument housed in a leather luggage-style case. It was used by Ag-Way Coop representatives as an early on-the-farm "computer" to formulate poultry feed mixtures based on flock production factors such as body weight and egg weight. This briefcase-sized device was carried to the farm and used by the feed representative and flock owner to determine nutritional inputs that would provide the highest net income for the poultry farmer.
Poultry Processing Photograph Collection
The Poultry Processing Photograph Collection consists primarily of black and white prints and negatives of various dimensions, mounted and unmounted, representing stages in the handling and processing of poultry and eggs. There are some color images and written material related to poultry technology.
Poultryman and Poultry Times Newspaper Photograph Collection
World's Poultry Science Association Records
The World's Poultry Science Association Records contain materials collected by various members and officers of the organization. Included are correspondence, reports, publications, awards information, ephemera, meeting minutes, and photographs. The majority of the materials correspond with member participation in the World's Poultry Congresses, European poultry conferences, and other meetings. The earliest material dates from the first World's Poultry Congress in 1921.