Show more larger poultry flocks urged morgan county needs more and larger flocks of laying hens was the decision reached by the county poultry planning committee which met monday afternoon ray thatcher e county agent reported findings ot of the committee were morgan county has 92 farms under 30 acres intensive enterprises such as poultry Is one way of making these small units produce an adequate income I 1 poultry keeping utilizes the surplus labor of housewives and children which would otherwise not be productive I 1 high production per hen hea Is the key to poultry profits according to mr air thatcher the long time goal set up by the committee was laying hens hena by 1962 10 years from now committee recommendations of how to reach this goal were given by the committee make alake a survey of empty coops in the county find and recommend that they be repaired and filled with poultry obtain profit and loss figures on oil some larger poultry enterprises as a measure of possibilities recommend the insulation of all poultry houses now being used to insure against midwinter mid winter slumps in egg production recommend buying chicks before beffi v march I 1 to take advantage of high fall all and winter egg prices |