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Catalogue description Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Eggs and Poultry Division and successors: Registered Files, Poultry, Eggs and Small Livestock (PE Series)
| Reference: | MAF 293 |
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| Title: | Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food: Eggs and Poultry Division and successors: Registered Files, Poultry, Eggs and Small Livestock (PE Series) |
| Description: |
Files dealing with various subjects concerning poultry, egg and small fur-bearing livestock production, including animal welfare in intensive farming systems. The series includes records on the operation of the egg guarantee through the British Egg Marketing Board and the winding up of the board; consideration of the report of the Reorganisation Commission for Eggs, 1968; the work of the Poultry (Stock Improvement) Advisory Committee, the Poultry Stock Improvement Plan; the setting-up and working of Poultry Progeny Testing Stations; egg and poultry statistics; the import and export of poultry and eggs; and small fur-bearing livestock, such as mink and chinchillas. Many early files in this series contain pre-1957 papers re-registered from the C20 file series (MAF 85) and PRG file series (MAF 54 and MAF 125) |
| Date: | 1945-2005 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in its original department: | PE file series |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Language: | English |
| Creator: |
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 2001- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 1955-2001 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Economic Advice, Marketing and Eggs Division, 1963-1965 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Eggs and Poultry Division, 1955-1958 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Eggs and Poultry Division, 1970-1972 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Eggs, Poultry and Potatoes Division, 1958-1963 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Eggs, Poultry and Potatoes Division, 1972-1974 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Home Grown Cereals, Eggs and Poultry Division, 1965-1970 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Pig and Poultry Products Division, 1974-1984 |
| Physical description: | 344 file(s) |
| Access conditions: | Open |
| Immediate source of acquisition: |
From 1992 Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food |
| Accumulation dates: | 1957 onwards |
| Accruals: | Series is accruing |
| Administrative / biographical background: |
The Egg and Poultry Division was also responsible for the three poultry progeny testing stations established at Levens Hall Farm, near Harrogate, Wheaton Ashton and Phoenice Farm, Great Bookham, in Surrey, which operated between 1955 and 1964. |
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