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PSC. Poultry Science Collections

 Record Group
Identifier: PSC

Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:

Poultryman and Poultry Times Newspaper Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0136
Content Description The Poultryman and Poultry Times Newspaper Photograph Collection contains black and white negatives taken by the staff of Poultry Times, a weekly newspaper from Gainesville, Georgia, (1956-1985) and the Poultryman, a weekly newspaper from Vineland, New Jersey (1956-1969). Included are negatives of state poultry associations' personnel and functions, universities' personnel, U.S. Department of...
Dates: 1963-1986
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Arthur Francis Gannon Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0067
Content Description

The Arthur Francis Gannon Papers include correspondence and articles relating to Gannon's poultry projects.

Dates: 1934-1958
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Roland Clarence Hartman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0254
Content Description

The Roland Clarence Hartman Papers include speeches, articles, publications, and advertising material related to poultry.

Dates: 1928-1980
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Walter W. Sadler Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0270
Content Description

The Walter W. Sadler Papers consist of reprints of 55 of Sadler's published papers. Sadler wrote a variety of journal articles and essays on topics such as hatchability of poultry eggs, pasteurization of milk, care of bats, salmonella in turkeys, avian diseases, animal-borne infections, and food-borne diseases of animal origin, among other subjects.

Dates: 1953-1971
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Thomas Burr Charles Poultry Scrapbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MS0296
Content Description The Thomas Burr Charles Poultry Scrapbooks consist mainly of newspaper clippings on research, events, and notable individuals of the poultry industry, especially those located in New Hampshire. There are articles on the development of the New Hampshire chicken breed. The collection also contains correspondence both to and from Charles, poultry event notices and programs, obituaries, invitations and announcements, magazine articles, and ephemera. Some items cover topics other than poultry,...
Dates: 1923-1946; Majority of material found within 1940-1945
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Soren Husman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0219
Content Description

The Soren Husman Papers contain photographs of Husman and of the California Turkey Industry Federation (1925-1939), personal correspondence, and a newspaper clipping.

Dates: 1925-1939; Majority of material found within 1930-1932
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Theodore Byerly Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0221
Content Description

The Theodore Byerly Papers contain correspondence, manuscripts, publications, clippings, biographical information, photographs, and office files relating to Byerly's career in poultry science and his participation in agricultural organizations.

Dates: 1925-1990
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Everett Eugene Lund Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0222
Content Description

The Everett Eugene Lund Papers contain reprints of Lund's publications, notes, correspondence, biographical information on various parasitologists, and photographs and slides related to poultry diseases.

Dates: 1930-1977
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Intercollegiate Poultry Judging Contest Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS0086
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1920-1965
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Cackelator Poultry Feed Calculator

 Collection
Identifier: MS0134
Content Description

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.

Dates: undated
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections