poultry

Content Description The Albert Wade Brant Collection contains copies of scientific literature and unpublished documents on poultry meat and egg research, dating from approximately 1930 until 1998. An author file of 17,000 cards accompanies the publications. The abstracts were generated or made available by the following organizations or individuals: Institute of American Poultry Industries; University of Illinois; U.S. Egg and Poultry Magazine; Dr. George F. Stewart and A. Wade Brant.Other materials...

Content Description This collection contains personal and organizational files of Alexander Gordeuk of Rahway, New Jersey. He was a member of U.S. Participation Committee, World's Poultry Congress and a staff coordinator for animal products, Merck, Sharp and Dohme Research Laboratories. The collection includes items relating to the U.S. Branch of the World Poultry Science Association and its Participation Committee's activities leading to and involvement in World's Poultry Congresses held in Mexico City, Mexico...

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The American Poultry Historical Society Artifacts include a marble rooster, an electronic egg, model poultry houses, an Utgaard Hatchery box, and poultry feed burlap sacks.

Content Description The American Poultry Historical Society Photograph Collection contains 115 black-and-white and color photographs, with captions and texts, mostly of members of poultry-related institutions and events held by various poultry groups. Some of the institutions, conferences, and groups represented include the American Association of Instructors and Investigators in Poultry; American Feed Manufacturers Association; American Poultry Association; American Poultry and Hatchery Federation; American...

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The Andrew Christie Papers consist of correspondence, newspaper clippings, and photographs concerning Christie's work with the Seventh World's Poultry Congress, held in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1939.

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

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The Ben Bereskin Papers consist of papers, photographs, publications and reports by Bereskin and others, including H. O. Hetzer, as well as data, notes, correspondence, drafts, abstracts, and other manuscripts. Materials cover subjects such as livestock, poultry, and swine.

Content Description The Poultry Science Department, University of Wisconsin, donated an electronic instrument housed in a leather luggage-style case titled "CACKALATOR, Linthicum, Maryland, 21090." This electronic device was carried to the farm and used by Ag-Way Co-op feed representatives and flock owners to make nutritional determinations to provide the highest net income for the poultryman. An early, on-the-farm computer, the CACKALATOR's 21 switches, dials, and knobs were used to formulate the crude...

Content Description The Charles J. Meler Papers include correspondence, egg marketing orders, and egg promotion material, including a proclamation by William G. Stratton, Governor of Illinois. Additionally, there are contracts for egg producers and started pullet growers, which were negotiated in Illinois and neighboring states. The collection contains bulletins of the Illinois Extension Service, publications of the American Poultry and Hatchery Federation and the Illinois Poultry Industry Council, and...

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The Clifford D. Carpenter Collection of Poultry Humor and Art contains original artwork, comics, and advertisements created by artists Joe E. Buresch, Charles Dennis, Charles W. Trotter, and others.