The collection contains many of the letters and other documents leading to the establishment of the National Chicken-of-Tomorrow Program, 1945-51. The names and affiliation of industry, association, university, and federal leaders who were named to the National Chicken-of-Tomorrow Committee and its subcommittees are given. A notebook showing the original records of economic traits measured in the National contest in 1951, is part of the collection. The thrust of the Chicken-of-Tomorrow contest was to encourage meat-type poultry breeders to develop a better, more efficient broiler. The success of these efforts can easily be seen in the supermarkets of the last decade of the 20th century. Also included are copies of the initial correspondence which established the rules and regulations governing the Arkansas Random Sample Poultry Tests, 1953-59.

Robert Morris Smith worked at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

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Correspondence leading to the establishment of the Chicken-of-Tomorrow Program and its first National Committee, 1945.

Rules Governing the State, Regional and National C.O.T. Contests, 1946-51.

Original performance records of the National C.O.T. Contest, 1951.

Rules Governing the Arkansas Random Sample Poultry Tests, 1953-59.