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National Turkey Federation Research Award
NATIONAL TURKEY FEDERATION RESEARCH AWARD
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paid for their food in the third and fourth laying years and it is doubtful in some cases in the second year whether a profit would have been secured. When food costs were only just over 50% of current costs and egg returns were nearly 40% higher than at present even the poor producers hatched in 1946 had a good margin of returns over food cost. The pellet-fed groups and the mash-fed groups had the same total number of deaths. The rate of mortality tended to increase slightly with age and in all amounted to just over 40% in the four laying seasons. The main causes of death were disorders of the reproductive system, leucosis and its allied diseases and air sac infections.
We thank our colleagues in the Chemistry Department for their analyses of all consignments of food used during the course of the experiment.
NATIONAL TURKEY FEDERATION RESEARCH AWARD
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S. J. MARSDEN
Winner of the National Turkey Federation Research Award The annual research award of the National Turkey Federation consisting of a plaque and $500, was made to Stanley J. Marsden, United States
Department of Agriculture Research Center, Beltsville, Maryland. This award is made to the individual whose outstanding work in the field of turkey research has aided the development of the industry. Marsden received the award for his work in developing the Beltsville Small White turkey, as well as for research in the fields of nutrition, breeding and management. He was born in Hinckley, New York, in 1897 and graduated from High School in Flint, Michigan. Marsden obtained a B.S. degree at Michigan State College in 1921, specializing in poultry husbandry, and obtained a M.S. degree in genetics at the University of Nebraska in 1930. He served with the U. S. Army in both World Wars and is still a member of the Organized Reserves. He is a member of Sigma Xi. From 1921 to 1929, he was Instructor in Poultry Husbandry at the University of Nebraska, and then joined the U. S. Department of Agriculture as Associate Poultry Husbandman in charge of turkey investigations at the U. S. Range Livestock Experiment Station, Miles City, Montana. In 1935 he transferred, along with the turkey experimental work, to the U. S. Agricultural Research Center at Beltsville, Maryland. In addition to being author or co-author of numerous scientific papers, bulletins and U.S.D.A. publications, he is co-author with J. H. Martin of the book Turkey Management.
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REFERENCES Heuser, G. F., and M. L. Scott, 1951, Studies in duck nutrition: methods of feeding. Poultry Sci. 30: 161-163. McMurray, M., 1935, Table poultry experiments. Table ducklings. Growers' ration versus fattening ration. Harper Adams Utility Poultry J. 20: 498499. Tallent, V. K., 1932, Pellets versus mash for table duck production. Harper Adams Utility Poultry J. 17:539-543. Wright, M. M., and F. J. Dudley, 1946, Feeding town food waste and steamed potatoes to Khaki Campbell ducks. Harper Adams Utility Poultry J. 31: 52-59.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
paid for their food in the third and fourth laying years and it is doubtful in some cases in the second year whether a profit would have been secured. When food costs were only just over 50% of current costs and egg returns were nearly 40% higher than at present even the poor producers hatched in 1946 had a good margin of returns over food cost. The pellet-fed groups and the mash-fed groups had the same total number of deaths. The rate of mortality tended to increase slightly with age and in all amounted to just over 40% in the four laying seasons. The main causes of death were disorders of the reproductive system, leucosis and its allied diseases and air sac infections.
We thank our colleagues in the Chemistry Department for their analyses of all consignments of food used during the course of the experiment.
NATIONAL TURKEY FEDERATION RESEARCH AWARD
I
S. J. MARSDEN
Winner of the National Turkey Federation Research Award The annual research award of the National Turkey Federation consisting of a plaque and $500, was made to Stanley J. Marsden, United States
Department of Agriculture Research Center, Beltsville, Maryland. This award is made to the individual whose outstanding work in the field of turkey research has aided the development of the industry. Marsden received the award for his work in developing the Beltsville Small White turkey, as well as for research in the fields of nutrition, breeding and management. He was born in Hinckley, New York, in 1897 and graduated from High School in Flint, Michigan. Marsden obtained a B.S. degree at Michigan State College in 1921, specializing in poultry husbandry, and obtained a M.S. degree in genetics at the University of Nebraska in 1930. He served with the U. S. Army in both World Wars and is still a member of the Organized Reserves. He is a member of Sigma Xi. From 1921 to 1929, he was Instructor in Poultry Husbandry at the University of Nebraska, and then joined the U. S. Department of Agriculture as Associate Poultry Husbandman in charge of turkey investigations at the U. S. Range Livestock Experiment Station, Miles City, Montana. In 1935 he transferred, along with the turkey experimental work, to the U. S. Agricultural Research Center at Beltsville, Maryland. In addition to being author or co-author of numerous scientific papers, bulletins and U.S.D.A. publications, he is co-author with J. H. Martin of the book Turkey Management.
Downloaded from http://ps.oxfordjournals.org/ at University of Alberta on April 27, 2015
REFERENCES Heuser, G. F., and M. L. Scott, 1951, Studies in duck nutrition: methods of feeding. Poultry Sci. 30: 161-163. McMurray, M., 1935, Table poultry experiments. Table ducklings. Growers' ration versus fattening ration. Harper Adams Utility Poultry J. 20: 498499. Tallent, V. K., 1932, Pellets versus mash for table duck production. Harper Adams Utility Poultry J. 17:539-543. Wright, M. M., and F. J. Dudley, 1946, Feeding town food waste and steamed potatoes to Khaki Campbell ducks. Harper Adams Utility Poultry J. 31: 52-59.