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Show ized wire to prevent rats from working work-ing through the concrete. An overhead over-head track, running the entire length of the building, is used for distributing distri-buting feed and removing litter. Incoming In-coming feed can be unloaded direct-lv direct-lv from trucks into the feed room of the building, where the mixing will be done mechanically. Lights are turned on and off at specified times by a time clock. Supplements Laboratory Research Work at the farm will supplement the research which has been carried on for several years in the nutritional nutrition-al and bacteriological laboratories of the National Oil Products Co., where about 1,000 chickens, several hundred rats, and other animals are kept for experimental purposes. A special breeding flock will be maintained at the farm to supply standardized baby ba-by chicks for laboratory use. I Nopco Farm j Dedicatedj , Over one hundred agricultural 1 ' scientists and educators, feed dealers ! I and poultrymen met at the Nopco Experimental farm, near Fleming-tjn, Fleming-tjn, N. J. on November 4 to assist in dedicating it to the practical study 'cf poultry and livestock nutrition and sanitation problems. Following an address of welcome by J. H. Barton, Bar-ton, vice-president of the National Oil Products Co., developers of the 'farm. Prof. H. C. Knandel of Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania State College, one of the speakers at the ceremonies, emphasized empha-sized the strides made in nutritional science in the past decade. He re-jferred re-jferred to a photograph in his pos-I pos-I session taken in 1922, which showed I men cutting away ice from a brooder brood-er house in order to let the chicks out into the frozen fields. This was a desperate effort to save them, asj they were dying because of confinement. confine-ment. Nothing was known at the time about vitamin D and the effects ef-fects of sunlight and it was thought that fowls secured something from the earth that was necessary for the preservation of their health. He complimented the National Oil Products Pro-ducts Co. because of the high degree of cooperation received from this company in connection with scholarships scholar-ships they have established at Pennsylvania Penn-sylvania State college. Prof. L. C. Norris, of Cornell University, Uni-versity, pointed out that sponsors of the Nopco farm were doing an 1 unusual thing as most commercial organizations had either reduced or stopped research work during the depression! Prof. Thompson, of the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment station, commended the company for being far-sighted enough to find the truth about the products it was selling and basing its selling efforts on these facts. Brown Shows Them Around After the ceremonies, which were in charge of L. M. Brown, of the Farm Feed Department, the guests inspected the buildings now under construction. It was announced that active experimental work at the farm will be well under way by next spring. Studies will include the nutritional requirements of poultry with special reference to Vitamin D; methods of improving egg production produc-tion and quality; and the efficiency of various types of disinfectants. Later, nutritional and other studies will be made on calves, hogs, dogs, and other animals. ".The scientific work at the farm will be under the supervision of Fuller D. Baird, who is in charge of the nutritional laboratories labo-ratories at Harrison. Nutritional ; research, under the direction of the company's staff of nutritional and biological scientists, will be carried out -at the Nopco Experimental Ex-perimental Farm with chickens, turkeys, calves, hogs, and other animals. ani-mals. Special attention wiU be paid to the Vitamin. D factor in the diet of all farm animals, and especially laying and breeding poultry and young chicks. Studies will be made of the egg production of hens over a period of years, methods of improving im-proving and marketing qualities of eggs, shell texture, hatchability, etc. Work will also be done on disinfectants, disin-fectants, insecticides, and agricultural agricul-tural sprays. A Modern Poultry House The first poultry unit is now under construction. It is arranged to house both layers and young chicks and contains twenty pens, providing capacity ca-pacity for 1,000 hens or 5,000 chicks. Each pen is provided with running water, and there is aspecial positive exhaust in the roof of each pen. The floor, which is drained for flushing, consists of a layer of cinders, a layer lay-er of tar paper, and a layer of concrete con-crete in which is embedded galvan- |