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Show Poultry School Features Talk by Washington; State Experts i purchasing power of the farm dollar dol-lar is also high. Speaking from the standpoint of the poultry industry, indus-try, Professor Broadbent pointed out that the demand for poultry products is now exceeding the supply, sup-ply, although Utah has produced its largest hatch of turkeys on record, even more than the number num-ber produced in 1944. "Other Thursday discusion topics included a report on poultry and turkey improvement work in Utah durin gthe past year by Dr. C. I. Draper, conference ; director; principles of inheritance in poultry breeding stock, Professor Byron Alder, extension pounltryraan ; problems of the state inspection and the state poultry program, Dr. J. I. Curtis, livestock sanitary specialist, Utah department of agriculture, ag-riculture, and Don E. Kenney, livestock live-stock commissioner of the state department, respectively;' activities of the state turkey association, J. Arno Kirkham, executive secretary of the federation; and hatchery-problems, hatchery-problems, Ervil Sanders, president of the Utah hatcherymen and breeders association. A moving picture on poultry problems and a meeting of the hatcherymen's association were in-cludede in-cludede in the day's agenda. More tr.an 75 Utah poukrymer. ' heard Baker Jones, bureau of ani-mal ani-mal industry, Washington, D. C., j describe changes in provisions of ' ' tile national poultry improvement ' ! plan at Tuesday sessions of the ( 12th annual flock selecting and ; pullorum disease testing school at 1 Utah State Agricultural college. , In explaining the revisions, Mr. Jones declared that ''cooperation among poultrymen will bring an industry that can stand up in postwar days." He added that wartime war-time has caused a 10 per cent drop in chicken production under the national plan, despite efforts of poultrymen to keep production on an even keel. D. H. Whittenberg, chairman of the official state agency in ' Utah and coordinator of the national plan, outlined the cooperation between be-tween the agency and the state department of agriculture, and also with the college veterinary science staff and the Utah extnsiori service, ser-vice, and praised the members of the agency, all who work without pay. In the opening afternoon meeting, meet-ing, Professor Dee Broadbent, extension ex-tension economist, described the economic outlook as it relates toj poultry production. He said that ' production in the industry is declining de-clining and that wartime has oaus. ed people to confuse increased earnings and increased profits with increased efficiency. Agricultural prices are now relatively re-latively high, he stated, and the |