Show profitable to market cockerels Cocker els as broilers those who have been advocating putting the cockerels cockerell cocker els tiff off as broilers rather than keeping them longer in order to detmore get more weight on thern them will be Inter interested ted in the findings of the new hampshire agricultural college after numerous experiments they have satisfied themselves that it takes but seven to eight pounds of feed to produce a broiler weighing two pounds while it takes anywhere from 12 to 20 pounds of feed for each succeeding pound up to six pounds it Is self evident then that it does not pay market poultry men to hold their cockerels cocker els to get the six pounds in weight the he poultry editor has always been advising you to get rid of f your cock berelz long before they eat their heads off so to speak |