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Symposium: What Research Should Extension Poultry Specialists be Doing and How Should it be Carried Out?1
Symposium: What Research Should Extension Poultry Specialists be Doing and How Should it be Carried Out? 1 Chairman T. L. BARTON University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas 72701
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Three Extension Poultry Specialists from
are to examine the kinds of research being done by Extension Poultry Specialists and to see how it is organized and carried out.
various sections of the country and with somewhat different approaches to research have been asked to report on their programs.
Members R. A. ERNST University of California, Davis, California 95616
In California, specialized Farm Advisers do most of the field research, but they coordinate their plans with an Extension Poultry Specialist and biometrician. The procedure is for the Farm Adviser to draw up a plan and submit it for approval to the Extension Poultry Specialist and biometrician. If the plan involves an area outside of poultry, such as entomology, the plan is evaluated by a resource person in that area. E. W.
The producer is informed of any risk involved before the project is started. The Farm Adviser helps collect data, but the producer furnishes the routine labor. Supplies are paid for by the producer, except for special equipment that needs to be purchased for a particular project. In the future, it appears that field research will involve a task-force approach with the additional people coming from the Experiment Station. GLEAVES
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68502
Presently there are between 4.5 and S.O million layers in Nebraska. Of these, two million are in commercial flocks. The other 2.S to 3.0 million are in small farm flocks which still make-up a major part of the state's poultry industry. The Poultry Department staff members 1
These summaries of the presentations given in the symposium at the 59th annual meeting of the Poultry Science Association, were prepared by H. S. Johnson, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801.
feel that good relations with industry are necessary. Consequently, top industry priorities are given top experimental priorities. Some recent research projects included a feasibility study for a turkey processing plant, a prospectus for the state's poultry industry, and a pesticide residue study. Extension's research needs at the present time include: (1) technical assistance, both in the field and at the University, and (2) financial assistance in the form of facilities and equipment.
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HE purposes of this panel discussion
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T. L. BARTON, R. A. ERNST, E. W. GLEAVES AND J. BEZPA J. BEZPA Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903
feed. These projects involve the cooperation of the Extension Poultry Specialist, Farm Adviser, Producer, and State Department of Agriculture. A current regional project, which includes the state of Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, involves the study of egg breakage. Field studies offer certain advantages over Experiment Station research, including the uniqueness of industry problems, less personnel, less "red tape," lower costs, and quicker action and results.
NEWS AND NOTES (Continued from page 8) new milestones. It was the first Congress to be Agrari and the Associazione Nazionale tra i Proheld for a second time in the same country. The duttori di Alimenti Zootecnici. 1924 event was held in Barcelona. The basic subjects that will be discussed are: (1) Actual varieties of cereal fodders and varieties Prince Juan Carlos of Spain, the designated selected with higher protein content. Cultivation successor as Chief of State to Generalissimo techniques of cereal fodders: environmental and Franco, honored the Congress by serving as Presiseasonal possibilities, methods of cultivation, antident of the opening session on September 7. parasitic defence. (2) Preferable time for sowing The Secretary General of the Congress reported and harvesting cereal fodders. Conditioning for that 63 countries were participating with 344 scitheir utilization and consumption. Methods of entific papers and reports being given. All scientific conservation. (3) Nutritive value of cereal fodders sessions were held in the Palace of Congresses. in relation t o : harvesting time, systems of condiMore than 3,600 individuals were registered at the tioning and conservation, criteria of supply. (4) Congress. Biological criteria and technological modalities in The Exhibition was held at the Madrid fairthe utilization of cereal fodders for feeding in relagrounds with more than 325 exhibitors participattion t o : animal species, economic disposition, age, ing. There were 30 national exhibits. state of vegetation, criteria and methods of conserZOOTECHNOLOGY SYMPOSIUM vation. Integration of the energetic and dietetic value. Fertilizing value of rejections and their utiThe Societa Italiana per il Progresso della Zoolization. (5) Biological, biochemical and physical tecnica is organizing its 6th International Zootechcauses harmful for the animals fed cereal fodders. nology Symposium on "Cereal fodders in the feedHarmful residues of pesticide and anticryptogamic ing of domestic animals." It will be held in Milan, products. Qualitative alterations and possibility of Italy, April 15-17, under the patronage of the harm during conservation. Digestive troubles and Ente Fiera di Milano. others of different nature. (6) Feeding utilization The Symposium, like the preceding one, is orgaof cereal fodders considering organoleptic, nutrinized by the Society with the Accademia Naziotive characteristics and milk, meat, fat, egg and nale di Agricoltura, the Instituto Nazionale della wool industry. (7) Economy of cultivation of ceNutrizione, and the collaboration of the Societa real fodders. Economic significance of their rationAgraria di Lombardia, the Associazione Nazionale al feeding supply in relation to animal species Allevatori, the Federazione Italiana dei Consorzi (Continued on page 25)
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The answers to many of today's industry problems are no longer available from the Experiment Station. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct research projects in the field. Two types of field research are being carried on by the Extension Poultry Specialist in New Jersey. They are: (1) fact finding projects, and (2) regional field studies. Fact finding projects include such things as studies on electrical usage^ type of watering systems, and calcium separation in
T
Three Extension Poultry Specialists from
are to examine the kinds of research being done by Extension Poultry Specialists and to see how it is organized and carried out.
various sections of the country and with somewhat different approaches to research have been asked to report on their programs.
Members R. A. ERNST University of California, Davis, California 95616
In California, specialized Farm Advisers do most of the field research, but they coordinate their plans with an Extension Poultry Specialist and biometrician. The procedure is for the Farm Adviser to draw up a plan and submit it for approval to the Extension Poultry Specialist and biometrician. If the plan involves an area outside of poultry, such as entomology, the plan is evaluated by a resource person in that area. E. W.
The producer is informed of any risk involved before the project is started. The Farm Adviser helps collect data, but the producer furnishes the routine labor. Supplies are paid for by the producer, except for special equipment that needs to be purchased for a particular project. In the future, it appears that field research will involve a task-force approach with the additional people coming from the Experiment Station. GLEAVES
University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68502
Presently there are between 4.5 and S.O million layers in Nebraska. Of these, two million are in commercial flocks. The other 2.S to 3.0 million are in small farm flocks which still make-up a major part of the state's poultry industry. The Poultry Department staff members 1
These summaries of the presentations given in the symposium at the 59th annual meeting of the Poultry Science Association, were prepared by H. S. Johnson, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801.
feel that good relations with industry are necessary. Consequently, top industry priorities are given top experimental priorities. Some recent research projects included a feasibility study for a turkey processing plant, a prospectus for the state's poultry industry, and a pesticide residue study. Extension's research needs at the present time include: (1) technical assistance, both in the field and at the University, and (2) financial assistance in the form of facilities and equipment.
Downloaded from http://ps.oxfordjournals.org/ at UCSF Library on April 13, 2015
HE purposes of this panel discussion
II
T. L. BARTON, R. A. ERNST, E. W. GLEAVES AND J. BEZPA J. BEZPA Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08903
feed. These projects involve the cooperation of the Extension Poultry Specialist, Farm Adviser, Producer, and State Department of Agriculture. A current regional project, which includes the state of Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey, involves the study of egg breakage. Field studies offer certain advantages over Experiment Station research, including the uniqueness of industry problems, less personnel, less "red tape," lower costs, and quicker action and results.
NEWS AND NOTES (Continued from page 8) new milestones. It was the first Congress to be Agrari and the Associazione Nazionale tra i Proheld for a second time in the same country. The duttori di Alimenti Zootecnici. 1924 event was held in Barcelona. The basic subjects that will be discussed are: (1) Actual varieties of cereal fodders and varieties Prince Juan Carlos of Spain, the designated selected with higher protein content. Cultivation successor as Chief of State to Generalissimo techniques of cereal fodders: environmental and Franco, honored the Congress by serving as Presiseasonal possibilities, methods of cultivation, antident of the opening session on September 7. parasitic defence. (2) Preferable time for sowing The Secretary General of the Congress reported and harvesting cereal fodders. Conditioning for that 63 countries were participating with 344 scitheir utilization and consumption. Methods of entific papers and reports being given. All scientific conservation. (3) Nutritive value of cereal fodders sessions were held in the Palace of Congresses. in relation t o : harvesting time, systems of condiMore than 3,600 individuals were registered at the tioning and conservation, criteria of supply. (4) Congress. Biological criteria and technological modalities in The Exhibition was held at the Madrid fairthe utilization of cereal fodders for feeding in relagrounds with more than 325 exhibitors participattion t o : animal species, economic disposition, age, ing. There were 30 national exhibits. state of vegetation, criteria and methods of conserZOOTECHNOLOGY SYMPOSIUM vation. Integration of the energetic and dietetic value. Fertilizing value of rejections and their utiThe Societa Italiana per il Progresso della Zoolization. (5) Biological, biochemical and physical tecnica is organizing its 6th International Zootechcauses harmful for the animals fed cereal fodders. nology Symposium on "Cereal fodders in the feedHarmful residues of pesticide and anticryptogamic ing of domestic animals." It will be held in Milan, products. Qualitative alterations and possibility of Italy, April 15-17, under the patronage of the harm during conservation. Digestive troubles and Ente Fiera di Milano. others of different nature. (6) Feeding utilization The Symposium, like the preceding one, is orgaof cereal fodders considering organoleptic, nutrinized by the Society with the Accademia Naziotive characteristics and milk, meat, fat, egg and nale di Agricoltura, the Instituto Nazionale della wool industry. (7) Economy of cultivation of ceNutrizione, and the collaboration of the Societa real fodders. Economic significance of their rationAgraria di Lombardia, the Associazione Nazionale al feeding supply in relation to animal species Allevatori, the Federazione Italiana dei Consorzi (Continued on page 25)
Downloaded from http://ps.oxfordjournals.org/ at UCSF Library on April 13, 2015
The answers to many of today's industry problems are no longer available from the Experiment Station. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct research projects in the field. Two types of field research are being carried on by the Extension Poultry Specialist in New Jersey. They are: (1) fact finding projects, and (2) regional field studies. Fact finding projects include such things as studies on electrical usage^ type of watering systems, and calcium separation in