Milford chronicle., 1933-04-14
SCIENCE BETTERS THE
CONDITION. OF THE
POULTRY INDUSTRY
From The New Jersey POnItryman)

(FrOm The New Jersey POHltryman
Science is playing huge part il
improving the poultry industry an
the world at large. Experiment
conducted on poultry permit tn
medical world to obtain certain i'll
formation which ordinarily take
centuries to accomplish if the ex
periments had to be conducted Ol
humans.
Particular credit is due to tn,
large milling companies whicl
lists who are continually working
out the problems which confront
poultrymen.
These actual experiment stations
of the milling companies have an
advantage over public institutions
which usually are under constant
pressure to make public their find
ings as fast as they appear and Of
ten a good deal faster than they can
be confirmed because the public is
constantly demanding to know what
expenditures are being made of the
public funds and the results there
| from
| With a commercial organization
| there is Il greater and greater tenden-
cy among the high grade mantlfac-
turers to spend more and more eff
fort on research work and to make
certain that any conclusions are abb
solutely sound, because changes in
the product and policy of the COM
pany are directly involved as result
of these experiments and if errOne-
ous conclusions are reached they
may result in the ruin of the organ
ization which after all must depend
on the reputation achieved by its
products for success both financial
ly and otherwise.
One of the outstanding CONNER
cial organizations which is accom-
plishing work along these lines is
under the guidance of Professor {.
+. Lee, formerly of Cornell and now
Director of Research of the Beacon
Milling Company.
The research farm of the Beacon
Milling Company is located on a
hill some $50 feet above Lake Cay
uga. Cayuga Lake, incidentally is
about 40 miles long and several
miles wide, and is one of the largest
of the Finger Lakes i'm Central New
York. The PeacOn POulty Research
Farm occupies some 60 acres of land
which was part of an original grant
to u Revolutionary soldier who set
tied there and sold it to a relative
of President Martin Van Buren. 1t
remained in the Van Buren, family |
for number of generations and in
fact was owned by a relatives of the
family when acquired by the Beacon
organization,
The following description of the
Beacon Research Farm illustrates
the ability of a successful OrganiZa-
tiOn to conduct work which would
be difficult for even the largest pOul-
try plant to undertake.
On the farm are two long laying
houses for chickens, one 14O by 20
feet, the other 10S by "a feet; one
long brOOder house 1856 by "a feet
heated with q hot water brOOder sys-
tenn; one duck house 60 by "A feet;
some fifteen open range shelters for
rearing pullets; colony houses and
rearing platforms for turkeys. and
building approximately S5 by 81
feet, containing beside the farm Of
ice, egg Gambling, and packing room
ETC.. hen battery room with a ca
lacity for $40 birds in batteries and
/ chick battery brooder room of :
for about 5000 chicks, this
being equipped with the
'ery latest equipment in every re-
ipect, heated by an oil heater COM
lining heating, humidifying and cir
ulating warm air.
Operated in connection with the
'oultry farm is the poultry disease
which occupies part of
heir general laboratory at the mill I
nd which is equipped with the lat
st and best equipment necessary
Or complete meteorological and
ost mortem work, microscopic eX-
etc. |
On their research farm are car I
led at the present time some 1900
aging hens. an average of around q
thousand ducks, five or six thous- d
nd chicks in various stages of {
rowth on land at all times, and b
everal hundred turkeys are raised II
ach year. In addition to the above C
ley have carried on special work L
18th rabbits, and separated from a
ne main farm but ON adjoining Il
roperty just across the road is To- e
lted the Beacon Research Dog Ii
ennels where rs to SO dogs are s
ept on hand at all times and are h
king part in various experiments v
hich are under continuous opera "
on. II
In addition to the Research Farm v
self. considerable amount of CO. a.
Derative experimental work is
lrried on, particularly in the game m
rd field and with certain well n
lown northeastern breeders of n,
lickens, this work supplementing tr
e work they are able to do at the in
search farm. tr
In their general plan of expert q,
entail work, they never have less n,
an three and usually at least five q,
ms involved on each side of the ~
pertinent and an experiment is IA
peated anywhere from two to fif- A.
en- times before conclusions are n,
drawn. in