Plots of the newsreel "News of the Day" show the achievements in a number of collective and state farms of the Soviet Union in the development of animal husbandry in connection with the decision of the CPSU - to catch up with the United States in the production of meat, milk and butter per capita. Duck poultry farm of the Timashevsky state farm, Kuibyshev region. State farm director Yu. M. Vikentiev and chief zootechnician ZA Butorova initiated an increase in the number of reared ducks from 46 to 150 thousand. Leningrad scientist P. M. Sonikov, working on breeding a new breed of chickens "Leningrad White". Poultry farms in the Leningrad region, which are raising a new breed of chickens. Raising cattle on collective farms: named after the October Revolution, named after Lenin, "Chervone Pole" (Moscow, Drohobych, Zaporozhye regions); collective farm herds in pastures; veterinary examination of young animals. Sheep flocks of collective farms in Zaporozhye and Tien Shan regions. Shepherds drive flocks of sheep to the high-mountain pastures of Kyrgyzstan.