BRITISH BLI7E-BLOOD 

 Light Sussex is England's popular breed. 



\^^^HE Little Red Hen out-smarted 

 ^*~Y^ the fox, according to Mother 



\_J Goose. In Cleveland, Ohio, 

 July 28 to August 7, the Little Hen's 

 family, strutting and crowing at the 

 7th World's Poultry Congress, again 

 surprised the world. 



Rivaling the New York World Fair 

 in attendance the Congress attracted 

 nearly 100,000 visitors daily. Folks 

 from 44 countries and 48 states saw the 

 largest competitive poultry show ever 

 staged in the U. S. numbering 10,000 

 birds of all species and breeds. They 

 saw acres of commercial displays and 

 heard leaders of the industry discuss 

 breeding, feeding, disease control, 

 hatching, marketing and flock manage- 

 ment. 



People of the United States, the show 

 revealed, buy more than a billion dol- 

 lars of poultry products a year. The 

 industry ranks near the top among 

 sources of farm income. 



Discovering its own imfwrtance, the 

 poultry industry paid tribute to two 

 of its pioneers, James E. Rice and Tom 

 Barron. 



Fifty years ago these men. Rice in 

 New York and Barron in England, 

 started breeding birds for egg produc- 

 tion. Rice, experimenting with trap 

 nests, found his hens laying but 65 

 eggs a year. Barron, selecting layers 

 by appearance and handling, (he sought 



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World Poultry Congress 



Immense Crowds See Latest Dewelopments in 



One of Country's Leading industries 



By Larry Potter 



hens with bold, alert eyes, large vel- 

 vety combs, and heavy pigmentation) 

 developed a strain of heavy producing 

 White Leghorns. Later, he too, used 

 trap nests. 



Speaking about problems of the in- 

 dustry, Mr. Barron said: "High mor- 

 tality is common in all countries. Much 

 of it is due to bad breeding. Methods 

 must be improved by breeding for 

 health factors as well as production." 



Another problem facing poultrymen, 

 especially in Europe, is the threat of 

 war. While no reference was made to 

 it in public sessions, and foreign dele- 

 gates preferred not to discuss it, a 

 young Englishman, Jeffery Welland 

 Smith, had this to say: 



"I like America. You have a feel- 

 ing of freedom here. We are very 

 busy over there preparing under- 

 grounds, bombproofs and the like. 

 While it all seems so futile and use- 

 less, it is the only thing to do. Sooner 

 or later Germany will have Danzig. 

 I see no harm in that but the Stand our 

 government takes will determine 

 whether or not we will have war." 



While Jelfery and millions of other 

 young European farmers born since the 

 World War are pondering their fates, 

 American rural youths are learning the 

 art of producing food. They were 

 represented everywhere at the Congress 

 in sp>ecial conferences for Future Farm- 

 ers, 4-H Clubs, Boy Scouts, and New 

 Farmers of America (An organization 

 for Negro vo-ag students). 



Everywhere was a mingling of races. 



nationalities, and speech. Folks from 

 all nations were there to get the new- 

 est developments in poultry husbandry 

 and the fact that they didn't speak the 

 same language made no difference. 



Two boys from Georgia were con- 

 versing with a Canadian, who spoke 

 only French, by means of an inter- 

 preter. A Cuban was kidding girls 

 of the Saskatoon Kiltie band in mixed 

 languages. A guide, conducting a small 

 delegation through the exhibits read 

 signs to them in German. 



Rare birds from all parts of the globe 

 included a pen of Malayan jungle fowl, 

 said to be the stock from which all 

 breeds of chickens originated. These 

 birds are not as large as a ringnecked 

 pheasant hen but are a similar leggy 

 conformation. The largest breed shown 

 was White Langshans from England, 

 big as bronze turkeys. 



Among the new breeds were the 

 Cubalayas, developed from Malayan 

 stock in recent years to meet the Cuban 

 poultry keejjers' demands for a bird 

 of brilliant plumage. White Amer- 

 icans, a breed being developed in New 

 England to meet the dual requirements 

 of the Boston market for brown eggs 

 and meaty, yellow-skinned fowls, in- 

 terested both scientists and commercial 

 poultrymen. 



With the closing of the 7th World 

 Poultry Congress, held for the first 

 time in the U. S., the American poul- 

 try industry took its place in the circle 

 of big business. Its world fair paid 

 its way. 



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RURAL YOUTH 



English boy meets Michi- 

 gan girl. Said he: "We 

 didn't discuss poultry keep- 

 ing." 



DUAL PURPOSE 



How Light Sussex are bred for 

 both eggs and meat was shown in 

 the British National exhibit. 



BREEDER AND FEEDER 



IT. A. Seidel, White Leghorn 

 breeder of San Antonio, Texas, left, 

 chats with Harold McCants, Georgia 

 pouttryman. 



CUBALAYA 



A new Cuban variety 

 bred for fine feathers and 

 gamy disposition. 



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