poultry

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The Clinton C. Hollenback Papers include personal correspondence and ledger accounts of purchases and sales of hatching eggs, baby chicks, and farm equipment. There are brochures, invoices, receipts, and price lists, along with detailed egg-production and incubation records of individual pedigree chickens, and numerous American Poultry Association prize ribbons awarded to Hollenback's entries in the 1919 Mukwonago, Wisconsin, Poultry Show.

Content Description The Clyde Dewey Mueller Papers contain correspondence, files on poultry breeding techniques, computer programs, random sample test reports published by the USDA and participating states, and a collection of brochures published by twelve poultry breeders. There are documents related to the work of national poultry organizations, such as the National Committee on Random Sample Poultry Testing and the Poultry Breeders of America. The papers also include Dr. Mueller's autobiography, which covers...

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The David Thomas Collection contains publications and reprints of papers on various aspects of ornithology given by David Thomas. Material was written by numerous authors and published by various scientific journals and other organizations.

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

Content Description The George Burnet Rogers Papers contain documents related to poultry and egg production, marketing, pollution, and other related research. Many of Rogers' publications and presentations are included, as well as a limited amount of his personal correspondence. The collection also contains poultry trade show pamphlets and programs; egg and poultry pricing documents; poultry and egg marketing, consumer, price-related papers, publications, research data; materials from private poultry companies...

Content Description The Harlan Loy Shrader Collection contains materials collected by Shrader while he served as a senior extension poultry husbandman from 1926 to 1959. The materials include reports, articles, newsletters, clippings, photographs, booklets, correspondence, items from various poultry extension services, a metal model of everted baby chick vents, and other items. Some of the materials pertain to the American Poultry Historical Society. There are also materials related to the Chicken of Tomorrow...

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The Harry William Schoening Papers consist of materials pertaining to Schoening's veterinary research; a pictorial history of individuals who worked for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Bureau of Animal Industry; correspondence related to his retirement; and photographs of his retirement party. There are Bureau of Animal Industry reports on hog cholera, cattle, swine, sheep and goats, horses, poultry, fur animals, foot-and-mouth disease, and parasites.

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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.

Content Description The International Poultry Industry Exposition Records consist of four bound volumes of publicity notices for the 1968 and 1969 International Poultry Industry Expositions (IPIE) held in Chicago and New Orleans, respectively. In addition, there are two volumes of promotional material for a joint IPIE and Northeast Poultry Producers Council (NEPPCO) exposition in Cincinnati in 1970. The official guides, master programs, and daily event schedules for these expositions are included, as well as a...

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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.