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National Turkey Federation Research Award
National Turkey Federation Research Award
The award recognized more than 10 years of research conducted by Dr. Ogasawara in the field of turkey fertility, much of it related to artificial insemination. Approximately 90 percent of the commercial turkey flocks in the United States now use artificial breeding. With it, the turkeyman may reasonably expect about 80 percent fertility, well above that obtained through natural mating. But, to achieve this high level, Dr. Ogasawara has proved, by scientific demonstration and investigation under field conditions, the need for precision and care in industry application of this relatively simple routine. His studies have included both the hen and torn contribution to infertile matings. In addition he has made significant contributions to our knowledge of proper sperm storage. Closely related to fundamental questions of sperm metabolism and storage are the studies, in which he has participated, on the site of storage in the oviduct, and the factors determining sperm survival. The work has identified the particular region of the oviduct which is the zone for sperm storage. Dr. Ogasawara has developed the surgical skill and technique for insemination in different regions of the oviduct. He is pursuing an intensive study of the role of the uterovaginal glands and their contribution to sperm transport. Several of his papers pertain to the management of turkeys, e.g., the use of light restriction to control egg production in winter-hatched turkeys. In one publication he described egg production and semen production of turkeys in cages. In another publication of which he is a junior author, the problem of Newcastle disease virus on turkey fertility was investigated. Dr. Ogasawara has been associated with the W-7 Turkey Project of the Western Region. He and Dr. V. S. Asmundson have completed a manuscript entitled "Turkey Breeding Research in the Western United States." This will be published as
F. X. OGASAWARA
Winner of the National Turkey Federation Research Award
a Western Regional Research Project publication and will be printed as a California Agricultural Experiment Station Circular or Bulletin. Other States that have cooperated in the W-7 Regional Research Project are Washington, Oregon, Colorado and Wyoming. Dr. Ogasawara has had an interest in the production of hybrids between several species of poultry, including turkeys. In Japan he is working in the laboratories of Dr. Kikio Yasudo, perfecting an electron microscopy technique for a study of endocrine organs, primarily the pituitary, thyroid and gonads in hybrids. He is working with a Japanese quail-chicken cross, attempting to determine the cause of hybrid sterility. He is the recipient of a Traineeship from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Ogasawara received a bachelor's and a doctor's degree from the University of California at Davis.
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Dr. Frank X. Ogasawara, Department of Poultry Science, University of California, Davis, is the 1966 recipient of the National Turkey Federation Research Award. The Award consists of an engraved plaque and $500. The presentation was made at the banquet during the annual convention of the Federation in Omaha, Nebraska. Dr. Ogasawara is currently on a sabbatical research visit to Nagoya University, Japan, and was represented by Price Schroeder, Agricultural Extension Service Area Farm Advisor from the San Joaquin Valley.
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NEWS AND NOTES Farm, Lincoln, Nebraska; and J. H. Martin, former Head of the Poultry Department of Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana. Joining the Loaned Executive program since the first announcement, is L. H. Abbott, Salsbury Laboratories. I. A. P. I. NOTES The Institute of American Poultry Industries will publish the complete Proceedings of the Fact Finding Conference. Besides the 22 talks-on marketing, personnel, broilers, turkeys and eggs—the Proceedings will include the questions and answers that followed the discussions, plus the chart used by R. Larkin and C. Newell in discussing trends in the turkey and egg business. Copies at $7.50 each, may be obtained from: The Institute of American Poultry Industries, 67 East Madison Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603. ERRATA There are two errors, due to an interchange in lines, in the article, by H. E. Kumpost and T. W. Sullivan, entitled "Minimum sodium requirement and interaction of potassium and sodium in the diet of young turkeys," pages 1334 to 1339, inclusive, in the November, 1966, issue. The second and third sentences under Experimental should read: "Straight-run (unsexed) poults were used in experiments 1 and 2, whereas, female poults were used in experiments 3 and 4. In each experiment day-old poults were selected at random, wingbanded, weighed and assigned to dietary treatments." The sixth sentence should read: "All poults were weighed individually at weekly intervals ; ." An error was made in the calculations for the last column of Table 1 in the article, by L. R. Champion, H. C. Zindel, R. K. Ringer and J. H. Wolford, entitled "The performance of started pullets treated with Su-9064 (Pacitran) prior to transport," pages 1359-1368, inclusive, of the November, 1966, issue. The first and last columns of the table should read:
Year 1961-1962 1962-1963 1963-1964 1964-1965
Distance from U. P. E. S. km. 687 530 481 811
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(Continued from page 536) companies but are vitally interested in the future of the egg industry and the continued strength of P. E. N. B. Three newly retired executives also have accepted posts in the program: J. D. Sykes, H. H. Alp and J. C. Taylor. Huttar will retire from Agway, Inc., Ithaca, New York, where he has been Director of Poultry Industry Relations. He has been associated with this company for 34 years. He was President of P. E. N. B. in 1961 and 1962. Franz, while not completely retired from active direction of the group of companies he heads, has moved to a farm in Missouri. Hei was P. E. N. B. President in 1963 and 1964. Sykes is a former Ralston-Purina executive. Alp, who served as Managing Director of the Farm Bureau Trade Development Corporation, has been a member of the P. E. N. B. Executive Committee. Taylor served as a P. E. N. B. Director and has been associated for many years with the College of Agriculture of Rutgers University. Twelve men have been made available to date in the Loaned Executive program of the Board, as a part of the Operation Eggspansion. They will work for a limited time on the program, and will bring to it their special skills developed in their careers in merchandising, sales, promotion, and public relations. This Loaned Executive program will complement the Retired Executives program. Loaned Executives to date are: J. R. Bass, Butler Manufacturing Company; P. Benbow, Butler Manufacturing Company; W. Ellis, DeKalb Agricultural Association, Inc.; W. Kjellenberg, Butler Manufacturing Company; F. Laney, Butler Manufacturing Company; W. H. Lloyd, Honegger Farms Company, Inc.; L. L. Peterson, Wirthmore Feeds Inc.; H. Ponder, Butler Manufacturing Company; J. J. Steinkoenig, Ralston-Purina Company; R. M. Trees, Allied Mills, Inc.; P. A. Villari, Armour and Company; C. L. Walcott, Beacon Feeds; and R. D. Wells, Hy-Line Poultry Farms. Daniel J. Schultz joined the Board, February 1, as Controller and Office Manager, the post formally held by the late Thomas Greenlee. He has been Assistant Chief Accountant for the National Dairy Council since 1960, and previously was Assistant Controller for Mages Sporting Goods Company, Chicago. He served in the U. S. Army from 1956-1958. Since the original announcement concerning the Retired Executive program, the following have been named: R. Hill, Roscoe Hill Hatchery and Poultry
The award recognized more than 10 years of research conducted by Dr. Ogasawara in the field of turkey fertility, much of it related to artificial insemination. Approximately 90 percent of the commercial turkey flocks in the United States now use artificial breeding. With it, the turkeyman may reasonably expect about 80 percent fertility, well above that obtained through natural mating. But, to achieve this high level, Dr. Ogasawara has proved, by scientific demonstration and investigation under field conditions, the need for precision and care in industry application of this relatively simple routine. His studies have included both the hen and torn contribution to infertile matings. In addition he has made significant contributions to our knowledge of proper sperm storage. Closely related to fundamental questions of sperm metabolism and storage are the studies, in which he has participated, on the site of storage in the oviduct, and the factors determining sperm survival. The work has identified the particular region of the oviduct which is the zone for sperm storage. Dr. Ogasawara has developed the surgical skill and technique for insemination in different regions of the oviduct. He is pursuing an intensive study of the role of the uterovaginal glands and their contribution to sperm transport. Several of his papers pertain to the management of turkeys, e.g., the use of light restriction to control egg production in winter-hatched turkeys. In one publication he described egg production and semen production of turkeys in cages. In another publication of which he is a junior author, the problem of Newcastle disease virus on turkey fertility was investigated. Dr. Ogasawara has been associated with the W-7 Turkey Project of the Western Region. He and Dr. V. S. Asmundson have completed a manuscript entitled "Turkey Breeding Research in the Western United States." This will be published as
F. X. OGASAWARA
Winner of the National Turkey Federation Research Award
a Western Regional Research Project publication and will be printed as a California Agricultural Experiment Station Circular or Bulletin. Other States that have cooperated in the W-7 Regional Research Project are Washington, Oregon, Colorado and Wyoming. Dr. Ogasawara has had an interest in the production of hybrids between several species of poultry, including turkeys. In Japan he is working in the laboratories of Dr. Kikio Yasudo, perfecting an electron microscopy technique for a study of endocrine organs, primarily the pituitary, thyroid and gonads in hybrids. He is working with a Japanese quail-chicken cross, attempting to determine the cause of hybrid sterility. He is the recipient of a Traineeship from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Ogasawara received a bachelor's and a doctor's degree from the University of California at Davis.
Downloaded from http://ps.oxfordjournals.org/ at EKU Libraries,SerialsEastern Kentucky University on May 24, 2015
Dr. Frank X. Ogasawara, Department of Poultry Science, University of California, Davis, is the 1966 recipient of the National Turkey Federation Research Award. The Award consists of an engraved plaque and $500. The presentation was made at the banquet during the annual convention of the Federation in Omaha, Nebraska. Dr. Ogasawara is currently on a sabbatical research visit to Nagoya University, Japan, and was represented by Price Schroeder, Agricultural Extension Service Area Farm Advisor from the San Joaquin Valley.
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NEWS AND NOTES Farm, Lincoln, Nebraska; and J. H. Martin, former Head of the Poultry Department of Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana. Joining the Loaned Executive program since the first announcement, is L. H. Abbott, Salsbury Laboratories. I. A. P. I. NOTES The Institute of American Poultry Industries will publish the complete Proceedings of the Fact Finding Conference. Besides the 22 talks-on marketing, personnel, broilers, turkeys and eggs—the Proceedings will include the questions and answers that followed the discussions, plus the chart used by R. Larkin and C. Newell in discussing trends in the turkey and egg business. Copies at $7.50 each, may be obtained from: The Institute of American Poultry Industries, 67 East Madison Street, Chicago, Illinois 60603. ERRATA There are two errors, due to an interchange in lines, in the article, by H. E. Kumpost and T. W. Sullivan, entitled "Minimum sodium requirement and interaction of potassium and sodium in the diet of young turkeys," pages 1334 to 1339, inclusive, in the November, 1966, issue. The second and third sentences under Experimental should read: "Straight-run (unsexed) poults were used in experiments 1 and 2, whereas, female poults were used in experiments 3 and 4. In each experiment day-old poults were selected at random, wingbanded, weighed and assigned to dietary treatments." The sixth sentence should read: "All poults were weighed individually at weekly intervals ; ." An error was made in the calculations for the last column of Table 1 in the article, by L. R. Champion, H. C. Zindel, R. K. Ringer and J. H. Wolford, entitled "The performance of started pullets treated with Su-9064 (Pacitran) prior to transport," pages 1359-1368, inclusive, of the November, 1966, issue. The first and last columns of the table should read:
Year 1961-1962 1962-1963 1963-1964 1964-1965
Distance from U. P. E. S. km. 687 530 481 811
Downloaded from http://ps.oxfordjournals.org/ at EKU Libraries,SerialsEastern Kentucky University on May 24, 2015
(Continued from page 536) companies but are vitally interested in the future of the egg industry and the continued strength of P. E. N. B. Three newly retired executives also have accepted posts in the program: J. D. Sykes, H. H. Alp and J. C. Taylor. Huttar will retire from Agway, Inc., Ithaca, New York, where he has been Director of Poultry Industry Relations. He has been associated with this company for 34 years. He was President of P. E. N. B. in 1961 and 1962. Franz, while not completely retired from active direction of the group of companies he heads, has moved to a farm in Missouri. Hei was P. E. N. B. President in 1963 and 1964. Sykes is a former Ralston-Purina executive. Alp, who served as Managing Director of the Farm Bureau Trade Development Corporation, has been a member of the P. E. N. B. Executive Committee. Taylor served as a P. E. N. B. Director and has been associated for many years with the College of Agriculture of Rutgers University. Twelve men have been made available to date in the Loaned Executive program of the Board, as a part of the Operation Eggspansion. They will work for a limited time on the program, and will bring to it their special skills developed in their careers in merchandising, sales, promotion, and public relations. This Loaned Executive program will complement the Retired Executives program. Loaned Executives to date are: J. R. Bass, Butler Manufacturing Company; P. Benbow, Butler Manufacturing Company; W. Ellis, DeKalb Agricultural Association, Inc.; W. Kjellenberg, Butler Manufacturing Company; F. Laney, Butler Manufacturing Company; W. H. Lloyd, Honegger Farms Company, Inc.; L. L. Peterson, Wirthmore Feeds Inc.; H. Ponder, Butler Manufacturing Company; J. J. Steinkoenig, Ralston-Purina Company; R. M. Trees, Allied Mills, Inc.; P. A. Villari, Armour and Company; C. L. Walcott, Beacon Feeds; and R. D. Wells, Hy-Line Poultry Farms. Daniel J. Schultz joined the Board, February 1, as Controller and Office Manager, the post formally held by the late Thomas Greenlee. He has been Assistant Chief Accountant for the National Dairy Council since 1960, and previously was Assistant Controller for Mages Sporting Goods Company, Chicago. He served in the U. S. Army from 1956-1958. Since the original announcement concerning the Retired Executive program, the following have been named: R. Hill, Roscoe Hill Hatchery and Poultry