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Show Chicken-of-Tomorrow Contests Concluded Program Increased Fowl Production in Country The economics of chickens may offer a quick solution to the problem prob-lem of the current quest of most Americans to keep their dinner plates well filled. No matter what happens to other foods, there will still be plenty of chickens coming to market, according accord-ing to estimates of production possibilities pos-sibilities of the nation's top breeders breed-ers at the windup of the national chicken-of-tomorrow finals. Charles Vantress, Live Oak, Calif., twice winner of the contest, has estimated that his flocks alone ! ,. Of:? f !J ' , - - ft;- i 1 L yCy j The whole chicken Industry breeders, growers, scientists and others cooperated In the chicken-of-tomorrow program. Ahove a group interested in the industry examine products of the program. will be responsible for production of more than 100,000,000 meat-type chickens in 1951. This kind of production is due in great part to the six year chicken-of-tomorrow program when breed-; ers and producers set out to im-i prove the meat qualities of chick-' ens. The program was also responsible responsi-ble to some degree in development1 of great "broiler areas" in Georgia,' Delaware, Texas, Maine, Kansas, i Indiana, Arkansas and other states. Newer feeding efficiencies, better; growing facilities, more knowledge j of genetics developed on the farms' of the nation were tested in the state, regional, and nation chicken-j of-tomorrow contests. The program was financied by A & P grocery chain. |