The Department of Agriculture, hereinafter termed “department” is hereby authorized to establish facilities for, and thereafter to conduct and maintain during each year, a Pennsylvania Official Egg-laying Research Test and a Pennsylvania Official Pullet Growing Research Test, in order to determine and demonstrate improved and better methods for increasing the egg production of poultry, to afford farmers and poultry raisers official accreditation for the egg-laying capacity of their poultry, to determine the best techniques and methods in economically growing pullets for commercial purposes, and to determine meat yields and profit potentials of various breeds of poultry.