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Show I0 ltrccders To Compote In Chicken Contest During March some $5,000 baby chicks will be pipping through their .shells. They will be the chicks that will win the grand prize in ', the third and final year of the Chicken of Tomorrow contest, says Farm Journal. The wind-up of the search to find the best broiler stock in the TJ. S. got under way last month, when the contest committee named the 10 breeders to compete in the finals. fin-als. Within a few days these breeders breed-ers -they come from 20 states-will states-will ship 720 hatching eggs each to a hatchery at Georgetown, Del. The chicks are scheduled to be hatched on March 22; will be wing-banded wing-banded on March 23; and for the next 12 weeks will be reared under identical conditions at the Delaware Dela-ware State Experiment Sub-Station. Each flock will be weighed out on June 17. The birds will then be held three days at a feeding station; sta-tion; will be dressed on Monday, June 21. Judging will take place .m June 22 and 23, and prize win- nets will be announced ut u field-day field-day at Georgetown on June 24. Winner will receive a $5,000 award from the A Sc 1' Food Stores. More important, however, will be the virtual gold mine dumped In his lap as the result of Ins broilers being declared the nation's na-tion's best. |