Healthy Babcock Bessies for a uniform flock
Advice on managing a laying flock from Babcock Poultry Farm. Maintain healthy grown pullets to avoid early culling. kept pullets may pause or molt yet resume laying in weeks and continue into fall. Poor layers may justify weekly culling. develop shy pullets in a separate pen to promote uniformity. Local contact details: Babcock Poultry Farm Route 8 Ithaca NY and Manheim PA representative.
Angus Conference at Michigan State on Performance Testing
Michigan State University hosts the National Angus Conference in East Lansing March 10 11 12 with Angus breeders from the U S and Canada. Leader A D Weber dean of agriculture Kansas State College speaks Monday morning after greetings from MSU president John A Hannah.
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Angus
Michigan State
Michigan State University
East Lansing
Wolverine State
United States
Canada
A. D
Dad” Weber
Kansas State College
Dean Weber
John A. Hannah
John C. Gill
Upperville
American Angus Assn
Aberdeen Angus Progress
Anthony Hall
University
Robert W. Williams
Great Oaks Stock Farms
Rochester
Mich
Weber
R. J. Deans
Deans
Dr.Good
H H. Kaldee
Iowa State College
Virginia
Thomas J. Marlowe
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Blacksburg
Marlowe
Herman Purdy
Pennsylvania State University
Lewis B Pierce
Dan Roberts
177 Ranch
Wichita Falls
Texas
Missouri
John Lasley
L N. Hazel
Desne
Dr. Good
Kellogg Center
Augie R Ring
National Livestock and Meat Board
Michigan Aberdeen Angus Assn
American Angus Association
The
Michigan Angus Association
Arthur D Weber
Growers Approve Marketing Quotas for Tobacco
Preliminary USDA results show approval of marketing quotas for 1957 59 crops of cigar binder tobacco and cigar filler and binder tobacco. Referendums held Feb 13 report 98 percent and 94.1 percent approvals among 1846 and 3766 ballots respectively with final results not expected to change. Pennsylvania voters favor quotas at 71.4 percent amid low turnout.
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USDA
Pennsylvania
Insect Control and Bloat Research Urged by USDA Committee
The Feed and Forage Research Advisory Committee at a Washington meeting Feb 11 13 urged high priority work on insect control for forage crops and stored grains, expanded ruminant bloat studies, and basic forage composition research to improve feeds and processes.
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US Department of Agriculture
Commitee
Washington, D C
USDA
Department
Secretary of Agriculture
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