egg production

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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 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 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...