Journal of the American Association of Instructors and Investigators of Poultry Husbandry最新文献

The Poultry Department of the University of Nebraska reports the starting of a National Egg Laying and Breeding Contest at the Nebraska Station. The object and place of this Contest are discussed in the Nebraska Experiment Station Circular No. 7, issued June 1919. We wish the Poultry Department of Nebraska every success in their new venture.

Another activity of this Nebraska Department will be the establishment of a branch poultry farm at the North Platte Substation in the western central part of the state. One thousand birds representative of the five most popular varieties in this section will be used for demonstration work at the North Platte Substation. The five varieties which will be maintained are—Single Comb Rhode Island Red, Single Comb White Leghorn, Barred Plymouth Rock, Buff Orpington and White Wyandotte. Hatching eggs, baby chicks and breeding stock will be distributed at a nominal price, to the poultry …

An early issue of our Journal will be devoted exclusively to a discussion of Egg Laying Contests and the making of official records of merit in the United States and Canada. A special effort will be made to report on the organization and progress of every Contest in this Country. Any members who are in control of, or interested in Contest activities, and who have any contribution which can well appear in an issue devoted to this subject, will be of great service to the Editor if they will forward such material to him promptly.

“We make friends by being a friend.”

—Leigh Mitchell Hodges.

It is now over a year since Captain Playford Hales met his death, while leading a patrol on a reconnaissance over the front lines, on August 23, 1918.

Playford spent his whole life, until the time of his enlistment, within the precincts of the College, his home being on College Heights. He received his early education at the Macdonald Consolidated School and Guelph Collegiate Institute. He entered the O. A. C. with class ’14. In College he was especially prominent in athletics and poultry circles, playing on several of the College teams and serving as Poultry Editor of the Review in 1914. He dropped out a year at the end of his third year, working on the Poultry Department, and graduated with ’15.

After graduation he was on the staff of the Poultry Department, until he enlisted in the Royal …

There are many good things in the nature of bulletins, circulars and reports being issued frequently by the various Poultry Departments of our Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations which are not reaching our entire membership. The need for more complete distribution of available publications among our members was frequently discussed during the sessions of the Annual Meeting, with the result that the Secretary was requested to publish in a near issue of the Journal an up-to-date list of the names and addresses of the members of the Instructors Association, with the suggestion that each Department maintain these names as a special mailing list to which all poultry publications should be sent regularly. Such an exchange list is of mutual benefit to everyone, and it is earnestly urged that each member follow out this suggestion in so far as possible This should be one of the many benefits resulting from our …

Held at the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, Canada, July 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th, 1919.

The meeting was called to order July 1st, promptly at 9:00 o’clock with President Graham in the chair. A most hearty and highly appreciated address of welcome was given by Dr. George Creelman, President of the Agricultural College, and was briefly responded to by the Secretary, H. R. Lewis.

The total registered attendance for the week was 58, being the best attended convention ever held.

Minutes of the 1917–18 convention were read and approved. The Secretary and Treasurer's report for 1918–19 was presented, ordered approved and spread on the minutes. The Treasurer's account was received and audited.

Report of the Secretary and Treasurer for the Year 1918–1919.

New Brunswick, N. J., June 24, 1919.

I hereby submit the following report for the office of the Secretary and Treasurer for the past year …

1. To determine the average rate of increase in size of pullet eggs, the first 24 eggs laid by each of 56 pullets were weighed accurately. Data as follows:

• 1st—4 eggs; averaged 47.6 gms.

• 2nd—4 eggs; averaged 49.4 gms.

• 3rd—4 eggs; averaged 50.0 gms.

• 4th—4 eggs; averaged 50.6 gms.

• 5th—4 eggs; averaged 51.5 gms.

• 6th—4 eggs; averaged 52.6 gms.

(Weight of a No. 1 market egg should be 56 grammes). Considerable variation of the weight of eggs laid by individuals was noted. The average however, indicates a consistent increase.

2. Loss in weight of eggs during natural incubation. There is much variance of opinion as to the rate of evaporation of moisture during natural incubation. In an effort to determine whether evaporation was greatest during the first or the last part of the hatch, forty eggs were weighed at regular intervals during the time….

The purpose of this paper is to present a few of the problems encountered in the first Poultry Culling Campaign conducted by the Purdue University Poultry Department in 1918. The statements herein made are based mostly on observation and opinion rather than definite data and should be valued only as such. The ideas presented are from the point of view of an Extension worker who deals with farm flocks of various general purpose and mixed breeds, of uncertain ages and time of hatching, kept under a wide range of conditions in a corn belt state, instead of commercial flocks of Leghorns on which most of the experimental work has been conducted and upon which, perhaps too often, poultry propaganda has been based.

The time of the campaign this year is to be limited to August and September, provided it is possible for the available field men to cover the territory, …

Eleventh Annual Meeting of the American Association of Instructors and Investigators in Poultry Husbandry. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, July 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th, 1919.

ONTARIO AGRICULTRAL COLLEGE

Guelph, Canada

After the War

You Are Directing a Business That is Economically Sound and is a National Asset

Come prepared to discuss:—

1. How and Why our People should eat eggs and poultry.

2. A general advertising campaign.

3. Official records of performance and pedigrees.

4. The economics of production.

5. Methods of teaching.

6. Judging School.

Information

The Annual Meeting will be held this year at the Ontario Agricultural College, Guelph, Ontario, Canada, on July 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th.

Headquarters—Poultry Building.

Accommodations:

Arrangements have been made to provide lodging and board in the College dormitories and College dining hall at $1.50 per day. Arrangements have also been made for the visiting ladies. All are welcome.

College does …

During the war student competitive judging contests were compelled to give way to war emergency activities. Now that the war is over, interest is rapidly returning to this phase of our work. In a near issue of the Journal full plans will be published for an annual competitive judging contest, which will be held during the coming winter at some Eastern point. Our President has recently appointed a Committee to make full plans and to have charge of the conduct of such Contest. The Committee is Dr. O. B. Kent, Cornell University, Chairman; Prof. Loyal F. Payne, Massachusetts Agricultural College and Prof. Willard C. Thompson, New Jersey State University. If you have any suggestions send them to these men. Keep on the lookout for the latest developments in Competitive Student Judging Activities.

In Relation to Certification of Egg Records.

Some satisfactory method of certified hen and flock records will no doubt be evolved in time. There are certified cow records, certified potatoes, certified oranges, certified this and that, and there should be certified egg records. Honest breeders are entitled to this protection, and the buying public demands it. The poultry industry needs it. We are all agreed, I think, as to this. The question is, how can it be accomplished?

The purpose, I would say of certifying egg records is a double one. First to encourage good breeders of high class laying stock, and second to protect the public as well as the industry against unscrupulous persons who make misleading claims as to the quality of their stock. In no other agricultural Industry, is there greater opportunity for fraud as in this matter of selling fowls with egg records. On the other …