Prestage Department of Poultry Science

Poultry Division added to the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station

Poultry classes became part of the curriculum in the Department of Animal Industry.

Poultry Department becomes one of six original departments in the School of Agriculture.

The State College Poultry Judging Team competes for the tenth consecutive year at the National Inter-Collegiate Poultry Judging Contest at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

Work done in food science is scattered throughout several departments, namely Animal Industry, Horticulture, and Poultry Science.

State College celebrates the opening of Scott Hall, the new poultry science building, named for Robert Walter Scott. Construction of Scott Hall cost the college $380,110.97.

The Poultry Department is renamed the Department of Poultry Science.

The department becomes the Prestage Department of Poultry Science after receiving a $10 million gift to honor Bill and Marsha Prestage, owners of the Prestage Farms poultry and pork production company.

Gerald B. Havenstein.wrote the History of the Department of Poultry Science and Other Poultry Related Programs at North Carolina State University, 1881-2010. A print edition exists in the library.