g P.D. 123 



Poultry Certification. 



Under our Massachusetts Certified Pullorum Clean Grade there were 20 

 breeders having their flocks supervised, with a total of 46,427 birds individu- 

 ally inspected and banded. Each bird was inspected and leg-banded, providing 

 it met the grade requirements for pullorum disease freedom, health and vigor, 

 productive capacity, and reasonable freedom from standard disqualifications. 

 During the hatching season two visits were made to check the size of all 

 hatching eggs set by breeders under this Gi-ade, making sure that the grade 

 requirements were lived up to. 



Pullorum Clean Grade. — Under this Grade, we supervised 186 flocks that 

 applied for and met the requirements for this Grade. There were a total of 

 305,065 birds under this Grade. All of these birds passed at least two con- 

 secutive 100% pullorum disease free tests. A list of the flocks meeting the 

 requirements of this Grade was compiled and distributed. 



Pullorum Passed Grade. — This Grade allowed for the listing of flocks pass- 

 ing one 100% free pullorum disease test. Under this Grade there were 57 

 flocks qualifying with a total of 37,964 birds. Lists of these flocks were pre- 

 pared and distributed. 



Poultry Transportation Law. — During the year there were 589 Massachu- 

 setts poultry transportation licenses issued. Considerable work was done with 

 local and state enforcement agencies in policing the buying, selling and trans- 

 porting of poultry in this State, and during the year it was necessai*y to revoke 

 four poultry transportation licenses after a hearing had been granted and it 

 had been found that the holders of these licenses had violated the provisions 

 of the law. 



Poultry Tattooing. — During the year the tattooing program was continued, 

 with meetings and demonstrations being held throughout the State, at which 

 time the program was explained to the poultrymen. The tattooing program, in 

 connection with the poultry transportation law, has been successful in practi- 

 cally eliminating poultry stealing from this State. Up to November 30, 1937, 

 there has been a total of 716 poultry tattoo numbers issued by the Department. 

 These numbers are registered in this office and in the office of the State Police. 

 Miscellaneous Poultry Work: 



During the course of the year, all of the poultry correspondence and re- 

 quests for poultry information pei-taining to the Division work, was handled. 



During the year the poultry inspector acted as Secretary of the Massachu- 

 setts Federation of Poultry Associations, and the R. 0. P. Breeders* Associa- 

 tion. In cooperation with these two Organizations we were able to do a great 

 deal which was beneficial to the poultry industry of the State. 



In cooperation with cei'tain of the County Agents we were able to success- 

 fully prevent the spread of certain infectious poultry diseases in the State. 



In cooperation with the U. S. Department of Agriculture, we handled the 

 operation of the National Uniform Plan in this State. 



We assisted at cei'tain Fairs and exhibits in promoting the work of the 

 Division, and, in cooperation with other groups, prepared a poultry exhibit 

 showing the position of our Massachusetts poultry breeding stock. This exhibit 

 was shown at the Poultry Industries Exposition held in New York City the 

 first part of November. 



Beginning with June 1, 1937, a detailed account of certain office activities 

 was kept. This account is as follows : 



Office conferences 12 Letters written 1,122 



State conferences 28 News and radio releases 5 



Out-of-State meetings 3 Hearings attended 7 



Meetings attended within the Mimeographed lettei-s and sten- 



State 22 cils prepared and distributed 8,452 



Letters received 1,557 



Barns and Dairies 



The Barns and Dairies work has to do with the inspection of farms produc- 

 ing milk for sale anywhere in the Commonwealth; the instruction to farmers 



