Letters mainly from egg-producers to the National Egg Laying Test, Milford, nr Godalming, mainly to J.O. Strong, Secretary

60+ items of correspondence, including a few carbons of Strong's letters and some postcards. Correspondents (mainly in Poultry industry)sometimes multiple); H.R. Hunter (Specialist breeder); Y. Watanabé; Jack Wrennell; Camp Unami for Boys, R. & E. Charteris Ltd, Gerald Gill; Poultry World; bird insurance; railway use; W.M. Golden; Major H. Whaley; National Poultry Council; The Accredited Poultry Breeders Federation; Charles Allsop (manufacturers of rings); G.H. Kidner; The Framer & Stock Breeder; Dr. A. Everson Harrisson; British Poultry Development.Subjects: Meetings, acknowledgment, Poultry Industry, accounts, Poultry Advertisement Control Board, payments, fees, Test, import of Black Leghorns, report of egg laying contest, dropping the 'copper ring', Competitors, prospective boom; illness of staff; war duties affecting activity; affiliation fees, Special Conditions of entry, prize money, cleaning up the Poultry advertisements, extensive comment on controversial Abbott Bros by Kidner and The Farmer & Stock Breeder, definition of a pullet, blood-testing, phrases that should be barred, the curse of the J.N. Leigh Memorial Trophy, the poultry press, etc etc.With: c.20 letters, from National Egg Laying Test (x 2), Barclays Bank, individuals, Students Union Society (Royal Veterinary College)and the School of Agriculture, University of Cambridge.