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Show Improvement of Turkeys Planned '. v. Changes made in the national Turkey Improvement plan will conform more nearly with provisions provi-sions and requirements of the National Na-tional Poultry plan, Professor Carl Frischknecht, poultryman of the Utah extension service, said following fol-lowing his return from sessions of the National Turkey federation meet held in Chicago last week. While the delegates in attendance atten-dance favored an improvement plan for turkeys separate and apart from chickens, they still voted to enlarge the national turkey tur-key plan to include a "record of performance" breeding stage and one additional pullorum disease ' control class, stated professor Frish- knect, adding that the plan in the future will include the same breeding breed-ing stages and pullorum disease control classes as the poultry plan. He declared that the record of performance breeding stage which was added to the turkey plan is based on the number of eggs laid and the per cent of poults hatched during a period of eight consecutive weeks. i All turkeys used asu breeders in the pullorum-tested class of the turkey plan must contain fewer than six per cent reactors in 1944- 45, fewer than five per cent reactors re-actors in 1945-46, fewer than four per cent reactors in 1946-47, fewer few-er than three per cent reactors in 1947-48, after which the pullorum-' pullorum-' tested class is to be deleted or eliminated elim-inated from the national plan, Professor Pro-fessor Frischknect pointed out, and the requirements for the three higher pullorum disease control classes will be the same as they are at present in the natWu'al poultry improvement plan. With the approval of the off- f icial state agency, a hatchery pro ducing or selling both poults and chicks may participate in the turkey tur-key plan provided the chicks are hatched in a separate incubator and brooded in a separate room as required at present for the custom cus-tom hatching of chickens, the poultryman poul-tryman said. Professor Frischknect additionally addition-ally emphasized that all turkey eggs set from standard breeds of turkeys must weigh two and one-half one-half ounces each. Poults and hatch- ing eggs produced under the rules and regulations of the turkey plan are to lose their identity as of the terminology used in the plan when they are purchased for resale re-sale by any person, firm, or cor-' cor-' poration not ; participating in the plan. The minimum body weight for the broad-breasted young torn was changed from 18 to 21 pounds, and the officials of the Bureau of Animal Industry were asked to appoint a committee to study and make recommendations on stand- ards weights to be considered at T the next annual meeting of the National Turkey federation. Professor Frischknect, official Utah delegate, was named chairman chair-man of the committee on general regulations at the opening sesions, with the recommendations dealing with this phase of the National Turkey improvement plan presented pre-sented to the entire membership of the federation and then piloted pilot-ed through the votnig of the state delegates . by the chairman. |