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Show New Laboratory To Be Established at Branch College A new veterinary laboratory similar sim-ilar to those la operation at Provo and Logan, is to be developed at the Branch Agricultural College, Dr. R. H. Walker, director of th? Utah Agricultural Experiment station, sta-tion, reported at Logan Monday. Dr. Walker explained that the n.w Installation Is a continuation of the expansion program begun last year when the branch veterln-! veterln-! ary laboratory was established in ! Provo. Thse laboratories provide diagnostic service for farmers and : research work on livestock and ' poultry diseases. j "It Is planned that the n w laboratory la-boratory will serve the southern portion of the state In the same fashion that the Logan and Provo j installations are serving those ureas," he said. I Dr. Walker said that one of the major reasons for establishment of j the new laboratory Is accommoda-i I tlon of southern Utah's rapidly j developing turkey breeding and I hutching industry. ! "In an effort to rid turkey flocks j in the state of serious inheritable diseases such as pullorum, a law j was passed by the last stats legislature legis-lature which requires that all turkey tur-key breeding stock be tested and I reported free from pullorum before be-fore eggs produced can be used for j hatching," he continued. j j "This year there will be approx-j lmately 5000 turkey hens to b , I blood tested in compliance with! this law. Tills testing work will' be conducted at the new Cedar City laboratory from October through December." j Prof. Harold M. Nielsen, assist- ant research professor of veterinary veterin-ary science at Utah state agricultural agricul-tural college, will be In charge of the laboratory during this period and will conduct the tests. Plans for the laboratory Include a new constant temperature incubator incu-bator room, to provide suitable Incubation facilities for making the agglutination tests for pullor-jum pullor-jum diseases. Other Laboratory I equipment needed In this work Is 'being purchased and will be Installed In-stalled in time for the testing work. "With the 3 veterinary laboratories labora-tories now established, the agrtcul-! agrtcul-! tural experiment station Is well ! prepared to handle all animal and poultry disease diagnostic work In the state," Dr. Walker said. "Cooperation of these laboratories labora-tories is extended to practicing veterinarians throughout the state and also to officials of the state department of agricultural and the federal bureau of animal Industry," Indus-try," he announced. |