poultry production

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...

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...

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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.

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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.

Content Description The National Poultry Improvement Plan Records contain documents, reports, and summaries of early efforts to improve the economic aspects of poultry production through breeding and disease control. Materials include newsletters, publications, and reports relating to the poultry industry and the early history of NPIP.The collection includes the following materials: Data on chickens and turkeys tested for Salmonella pullorum (1923-1948), and selection and...