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Show Abundant Feed Alder Advises For Molting Hens Laying hens will make better food-for freedom egg producers if they are fed adequate quantities of a well-balanced feed, particularly particu-larly during the molting season, according to Professor Byron Alder, Al-der, extension poultryman for the Utah State Agricultural college Extension Ex-tension Service. "Vjri? nrnrlu ction slacks off "Egg production slacks off sharply when the hens molt. Since every egg that can be produced between now and the end of 1942 is going to be needed, and most of our production must come from farm flocks of laying hens, adequate ade-quate feeding was never more important im-portant than it is now," Professor Alder points out. "Plenty of balanced feed will ! help maintain egg production dur-i dur-i ing the molting season and bring hens back into fall production j more quickly than if feeding Is neglected at this time. Laying hens require feed for two purposes, first for maintenance and second for egg production, Professor Alder explains. Hens tend to produce eggs in a direct ration to the quantities of balanced feed they get above maintenance requirements. re-quirements. The United States needs about one and one-half million dozen eggs during the remainder of the year to fulfill the 1942 requirements require-ments for four and one-half billion bil-lion dozen, Uncle Sam is counting heavily on the hens in production now to help meet that goal and it is going to take plenty of the right kind of feed in the last stretch to do the job Professor Alder remarks. |