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Poultry Progress: What Are Good Chickens?, F. E. Mussehl

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Circulars

The desire for improvement is one of the highest of human virtues. Folks everywhere want good chickens. The poultry business is a competitive enterprise, and it is imperative that we have the best stock possible for the particular job to be done. But what are good chickens? Is there confusion about the term? Perhaps we can clarify the picture by asking one or two questions.

Poultry Progress: How Long Should A Chicken Live?, F. E. Mussehl

Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Circulars

Increased laying flock mortality has disturbed thoughtful hatcherymen, producers, processors, and research workers for several years, and very properly so, because hens which die before their time serve no useful purpose, except to raise in our minds the question, "Why?"

Nebraska Bird Review (July-December 1944) 12(2), Whole Issue

Nebraska Bird Review

Contents

A Survey of Nesting Birds in the Fontenelle Forest, by Dr. Frederic D. Garrett … 25

N.O.U. Cooperative Bird Migration and Occurrence List for First Half of 1944 … 31

General Notes … 40

Changes in Nomenclature and Subspecific Status of Nebraska Birds … 44

Miscellaneous … 51

Membership Roll of the N.O.U. … 52

Nebraska Bird Review (January-June 1944) 12(1), Whole Issue

Nebraska Bird Review

Contents

Distribution of Upland Game Birds in Nebraska,
By Levi L. Mohler ............................... 1

General Notes .................................. 7

Minutes of the Forty-fourth Annual Meeting ............................ 17

Report on the Forty-first Annual Field Day ................................ 21

Miscellaneous ...................................... 22

Index To Volume Xii, Jane B. Swenk

Nebraska Bird Review

Abies lasiocarpa, 41.

Alectoris graeca chukar, 2.

Audubon Wildlife Screen Tours, 22, 56.

Avocet, 34.

Bald pate, 33.

Bartramia longicauda, 2.

Bittern, American, 13, 21, 33.

Blackbird, Brewer’s, 38; Red-winged, 9, 13, 38; Rusty, 16, 38; Yellow-headed, 13, 21, 38.

Blinco, Mrs. George, Article by, 8–9.

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Woodpecker, Eastern Hairy, 13, 15, 16, 21, 35; Lewis’s, 35; Northern Downy, 13, 15, 16, 21, 30, 35; Red-bellied, 13, 15, 16, 21, 30, 35; Red-headed, 16, 21, 28, 35.

Wren, Bewick’s, 36, 43; Carolina, 36; House, 27, 30, 36; Prairie Marsh, 36; Western House, 9, 10, 13, …