Show MODERN CHICKEN MUCH IMPROVED I 1 when hen you yon sit down to your breakfast eggs or your sunday chicken dinner nowadays hymi vill probably enily much better belter food thon than you tild seven years ago for while few of us know anything of the lie change the great hen lias become a 0 decidedly improved bird since 1921 thousands of poultry nien in more than half of the states of the union have adopted standard systems for improving the breeds and eradicating disease in ID their nocks flocks since wisconsin began producing accredited chicks seven years ago the basis of the wisconsin alun explains the farm journal Journ nl ilai nas a breeding bre edilla program whereby through culling sele selection tion of birds of standard qualifications and vigorous cons titu alth till supervision ision of hoth both flock dock eind and hatcheries high quality hocks flocks and adf might be produced the chicks thus produced ere designated as accredited and nere advertised und and 9 sold 0 as such ibis accredited idea spread rapid ly from wisconsin and la Is now in operation under essentially tie the sin eln plan in ohio illinois kansas missouri michigan texas tennessee and a dumber of other states some eight or ten more inore states are also preparing to put this ins plan into operation opper atlon in vm 1922 adopted the U wisconsin iscon sin idea but made the blood test for bacillary white diarrhea the basis upon which flocks were to be accredited follow following Fol loIng ing the lead of con on massachusetts rhode island kew ew jersey and a number of other easters Ris lern states have hae bulit built up op an accredited system based on the disease eradication plan plad washington oregon and idaho fire are now on or are adopting this plan new york has a plan that Is a of 0 this with more emphasis on breeding success ot of tile the plan la Js evidenced by tru tile fact that ohio where the state poultry association adopted the plan only in I 1 KM will this year produce chicks from roin 65 a accredited hatcheries |