The History of the Poultry Science Association 1908–1958

EVERY organization needs, first of all, someone to conceive it; and second, someone to organize and develop it. The Poultry Science Association was blessed especially in the two men who, more than all others, were responsible for the proposing and developing of the Association—J. E. Rice of Cornell University, and W. R. Graham of the Ontario Agricultural College. In the fall of 1905, Professor Graham wrote a letter to all institutions in the United States and Canada that were engaged actively in poultry teaching or investigational work, as follows: “We would appreciate a letter from you stating whether you could be at New York Show this year or not. If possible, I would like to meet the various men in charge of the poultry divisions of the Experiment Stations. It has occurred to me that we might get a good deal of information from one another if we had . . .