Wednesday, November 18, 1936
- Jill Johnson Tewsley
- Nov 18, 2020
- 2 min read
EDNA'S CHICKENS GET TESTED.
HELEN GETS A TROUSSEAU.
MORSE TAKES WHEAT TO TOWN
Clear and cold.
Jen went back to Lydia's this
morning to help get ready
for the chicken supper at L.A.S.
Hall tomorrow night.
VL Watts and Jack Van Hoven
blood tested my hens and pullets.
There were 24 reactions.
Tested 207 fowls @2¢ $4.14
170 pullets + hens
13 roosters
24 reactions
Helen + I went to G.R. shopping.
Bo't Helen new dress (green)
under wear, pajamas, hose, gloves
house dresses, etc.
Morse took 20 bus wheat to
town (Alto) this A.M. @ 1.09 bus.
The history of the NPIP (National Poultry Improvement Plan) is actually quite fascinating but not possible for me to succinctly recap. It involves science and knowledge beyond my scope. I can tell you that it began in 1935 and remains today. Then, as now, it is a voluntary program implemented to improve poultry and poultry products.
It may seem to be a boring topic but I was fascinated by the presentation linked below that explains how, in 1935, an agency of the government was funded federally giving States the responsibility of administrating the National poultry improvement Program (NPIP).
This was, in part done by blood testing flocks for the antigen of Pullorum and typhoid disease.
Edna, it seems, was on board with the NPIP program in 1936. She had her chickens blood tested. A little more than 10% of her flock had "reactions" which I am assuming means they tested positive. I wasn't able to find any information to indicate if that was a high or satisfactory number in 1936.
Sometime before or after getting her flock blood tested, Edna took Helen to Grand Rapids shopping. A couple of days earlier, Helen announced to her mother that she and Red were getting married on Friday. They are still in the midst of the Great Depression but Edna, it seems, was not going to let her daughter be married without some sort of trousseau. I love that she notes the color of the dress. Green.
Henry is still in Lansing for a meeting, so Morse takes the wheat to town. He receives $1.09 a bushel. Just a few years earlier, at the onset of the Great Depression, wheat hit a low of $0.33 per bushel. The current price of wheat (November 13, 2020) is $5.9350 per bushel.
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