| Popis: |
For several years the Poultry Department of the Missouri College of Agriculture has advocated the selection and mating of superior poultry as a means of improving the farm flocks. In compliance with this recommendation and in answer to the demand for a simple and constructive plan of poultry breeding the certification of poultry was started in Missouri in 1920. The objects of the certified breeding plan are to establish definite breeding standards and make high producing stock available for distribution to farm poultry keepers. In other words, it is an attempt on the part of the College of Agriculture to carry to the farmers of the state a practical and inexpensive method of flock improvement. Prior to this time no definite, organized system of poultry breeding, other than the annual culling campaign had been established by the Poultry Extension Service. It might be well to state here that the plan . . . |
