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Show State Breeders Seek Chick Of More Meat Type Poultrymen in Utah will have an opportunity to win cash awards while working toward improvement of their own flocks by competing in a new three-year, three-year, nationwide program launched at a meeting of leaders lead-ers of the nation's three-billion-dollar poultry industry at Lexington, Lex-ington, Ky., last week. Utah activities in the Chickcn-of-Tomorrow program have been under the supervision of a representative rep-resentative state committee currently cur-rently headed by Lawrence Morris, extension poultryman at State Agricultural College, Logan. Lo-gan. The new Chicken -of -Tomorrow contest announced by H. L j Shrader, senior extension poul I tryman of the U. S. Dept. of Ag riculture, is designed to bring superior meat-type chickens to American dinner tables by cn-jcouraging cn-jcouraging the breeding and development de-velopment of plumper, meatier birds which can be more eco nomically produced. "The initial three-year Chick-en-of-Tomorrow program which concluded last June in Delaware, proved conclusively that definite defin-ite improvements in meat-type characteristics can be achieved," said Shrader, who is chairman of the contest committee. "Much valuable breeding information has been distributed to the growers, while the scientifi data compiled by committee officials of-ficials has proven of the utmost importance to the entire poultr. industry. "Inspired by the success of the initial contest, the nationwide interest created in the development develop-ment of superior meat-type chickens, the educational value of the dressed bird shows, and the opportunity to further improve im-prove the product, the national committee agreed unanimousl; that a new three-year program is imperative," Shrader added. Current plans call for a seri.- of state and regional contests in 1949, additional state and regional reg-ional trials in 1950, and a national na-tional championship finals in 1951, with a new set of awards offered by the food chain. |
