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Show USAC Poultry ; School Success ' D H Whittenburg. mayor of ' K---'ine'd has turned duties as of the Utah official ! -oul'rv and turkey breeders and i hat'-lit-rvmen agency, following concluding sessions of the eleventh elev-enth annual flock selecting and pullorum testing school at Utah Stare Agricultural college. More than 130 industry members mem-bers attended the six-day school, j conducted jointly by members of the poultry and veterinary I science departments at U.S.A.C. I Other officials are Professor Carl 1 Frischknecht, extension poultry, man, named official secretary and Dr. M. L. Miner, Provo named to succeed Dr. D. E. Madsen as representative of the Utah Veterinary Vet-erinary medical association on the agency board. Final session was the qualifying qualify-ing examinations for flock selecting select-ing and pullorum disease testing agents, Professor Frischknecht said. Fifty eight breeders took the selecting examinations, 25 of whom were turkey dealers, and 59 were applicants for pullorum disease dis-ease testing certification. ULllUUgll ail "'6' percentage of the applicants pass ed the examinations, official permits per-mits will be issued only to thosi who demonstrate they are abli to do satisfactory work in th field," he said. Professor Frischknecnt; announc ed that October 15 was set bj the group as the deadline foi signing memorandums of agreement agree-ment for participation in the national na-tional poultry and turkey im. provement plans, as well as for industry members who desire to meet the minimum requirements of Utah's pullorum disease control con-trol law for the coming year. Breeders and Hatcherymen participating in the national im- provement plans this year, may use the prefix, U. S., the national emblem designs and official labels and advertising and selling products prod-ucts this year,'' he reported. "However, hatchery products produced pro-duced under the national program only may be handled by them." Breeders and hatcherymen who do not participate in the national, program will be permitted permit-ted to use state labels and ter. minology only, he warned, but hatchery products produced anywhere any-where can bei purchased by them for resale in the state as long as minimum requirements of the state's pullorum disease law are met . "The large, number who attended attend-ed the school and took the examinations, ex-aminations, indicate that people in Utah are becoming much more interested in breeding and hatching hatch-ing of turkeys than ever before," he concluded. |