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Show Poultry School Opens Wednesday Invitations to attend the twelfth annual training school for blood collectors, breeding flock selectors, and pullorum disease testing agents ag-ents to be held August 1-4 at Utah suite Agricultural college, were sent out Wednesday to Utah poultrymen, along with copies of the program. Directing plans for the school Ls Dr. C. I. Draper, Utah Extension Exten-sion poultryman, who announces that the school Ls intended for both turkey and poultry producers. No fee will be charged, and housing hous-ing facilities will be provided foi delegates. Highlights of the first day's sessions ses-sions include a greeting by director direc-tor W. W. Owens of the Utah extension service; an explanation of the national turkey improvement improve-ment plan by Dr. Draper; descriptions des-criptions of pullorum disease and its control by Dr. J. Schoenfeld and Dr. M. L. Miner, of the college col-lege veterinary science department; blood collecting, blood handling and proper use of blood testing forms by Professor Harold M. Neilsen, research assistant professor profes-sor in veterinary science;, a lecture lec-ture on selection of breeding turkeys tur-keys by . Baker Jones of the bureau of animal industry, Washington, Wash-ington, D. C. and practice in drawing blood from turkeys by the veterinary department staff. Dr. Draper will present a report on poultry and turkey improvement improve-ment work in Utah during the past year on Thursday, Augusi 2; Mr. Jones will describe changes in provisions of the national poul-' poul-' try and turkey improvement plans; . nnH r TT Whifnhprcr of trip I official state agency will describe functions of the agency. Other Thursday topics are talks on inheritance in breeding stock, Professor Byron Alder, Utah extension ex-tension poultryman; state inspection inspec-tion programs, Dr. J. L. Curtis, livestock sanitary specialist of the Utah department of Agriculture; the poultry problem in Utah, Don E. Kenney, Livestock commissioner of the state department of agriculture; agri-culture; the economic outlook in poultry production, Professor De2 A. Broadbent, Utah extension economist; ec-onomist; activities of the state turkey federation, J. Arno Kirk-ham, Kirk-ham, federation secretary; hatchery hatch-ery problems, Ervil Sanders, president of the Utah Hatchery, men and Breeders association. On Friday, August 3, Mr. Sanders will preside at an association assoc-iation meeting, followed by discussions discus-sions on efficiency of pedigreed stock, Mr. Jones; respiratory diseases, Dr. Miner, a poultry session for beginers with lectures by Dr. Draper, Professor Alder and D. Schoenfeld; a talk on industry problems, Mr. Whirten-berg; Whirten-berg; and an afternoon practice in blood-testing and selection of .stock. The final day will bring qualifying quali-fying examinations for pullorum disease testing agents and further work on selection of males and females for breeding pens, Dr. Draper states. |