Judging Fowls for Egg Production

Abstract

Report of a Cooperative Conference

During the last week of October and the first week of November, 1919, a cooperative poultry conference was held at the International Egg Laying and Breeding Contest at Vineland, New Jersey. Representatives of the Poultry Departments of four of our Eastern Colleges and Experiment Stations participated. The persons in attendance were Prof. W. R. Graham of the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph; Dr. O. B. Kent of Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y.; Prof. W. F. Kirkpatrick and Roy E. Jones of the Connecticut Agricultural College at Storrs, Conn., and Prof. H. R. Lewis and Mr. Victor G. Aubry of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, New Brunswick, N. J. This conference was held at the invitation of Prof. H. R. Lewis of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station, the object being to study in great detail the yearling hens at the Vineland Contest, especially to …