Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Registered Files: Poultry - Progeny Testing (PT Series)

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Reference: MAF 332
Title: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Registered Files: Poultry - Progeny Testing (PT Series)
Description:

This series contains files relating to the establishment, winding up and sale of the poultry progeny testing stations at Levens Hall Farm, near Harrogate, Wheaton Aston and Phoenice Farm, Great Bookham, in Surrey. It includes minutes of the joint standing committee on these stations farmed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the National Farmers' Union, and minutes of each station's Farm Advisory Committee.
Date: 1954-1964
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Former reference in its original department: PT file series
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Language: English
Physical description: 7 file(s)
Access conditions: Open
Accumulation dates: 1955 to 1964
Administrative / biographical background:

In 1954 the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food decided to set up three poultry progeny testing stations. These were national experimental poultry farms undertaking practical investigations into rearing methods and the selection of the best strains of poultry. The three sites selected were at Levens Hall Farm, near Harrogate, a disused airfield at Wheaton Aston and Phoenice Farm, Great Bookham, in Surrey. Each farm had approximately 17,000 birds.

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