Show PROFITS FROM POULTRY The Lowly Hen Brought in a Neat Sum For Jor the Farmers Wife The industrious hen has proven a blessing to the farmers wives of Utah In her unobtrusive manner she has hu foraged fora through the orchards and stub stubble stubble stubble ble fed on the young grasses gra es in the nearby meadows meadoW and once in a awhile awhile awhile I while stole a savory meal from the I kitchen garden According to her herna nature na nature ture she has hag expressed her Jey fey at the advent of an egg but J t above all aU while doing all aU this she alte h has added a ded over to the incomes f leom of her owners The poultry industry ma may be said to be in its infancy in 1 the state tate but if a few tew more years yean like the one just judt passed paRed is vouchsafed It will soon BOOn gain its lu majority maj For the first time in inthe inthe the history the importations of poul poultry poultry poultry try and poultry products has bas been kept down below the amount of what was s sI produced at home From the best sources of information into possible it is I learned that only of the dressed poultry used in the state has hasI been of outside growth while the egg I production has hag so greatly greaNy increased that only about of the I amount consumed by bv Utah people will come from other states and these onlin only in the off oft season On the other hand there has been a heavy exportation of eggs during the flush season Be il n which would nearly equal the amount im lm imported Imported ported during the off oft season or in other words if l the proper means were at hand to store the product the Utah hen ben h n would have supplied all ail that was needed for home consumption On the storage question all dealers are of a unit in saying that it is one of the main things needed to build up the industry in Utah The market for poultry is in its nature variable and no steady price can be established owing to the constant feat fear of or a glut With adequate freezing plants this could be avoided and the producer J c c could Id count on hi his poultry with as much certainty as on any other product of the farm The Wood W od Grocery company are the first to branch out in this line and have installed a small freezing plant which has Ita proven by actual test the perfect feasibility of or the plan W L Price the president of the Utah Poultry association is of the opinion that a higher bounty should be given for the destruction of coyotes These animals do as much damage to the poultry grower 15 as s to the sheep I grower and every year destroy 20 per percent percent I cent of ot the years growth of birds their depredations being exceptionally large among the turkeys The actual figures res regarding the years production of ot poultry and eggs in Utah it is impossible impo sible to get owing to the amount of these consumed by bythe byth byth the th producers themselves of which no account has been kept The figures however of the amount put upon the market can be got at with a degree of certainty By careful inquiry among amog the dealers of the state it is learned that the eggs marketed during the year has been approximately dozens or cases aseL The price to the producer has ranged r from per case in the flush season to 4 50 to 6 50 the remainder of f the year giving an average of 4 75 per case or a total income from this source of Of poul poultry poultry poultry try there has been sold pounds the average price of which the year through has been 11 cents per pound giving a value to the producer of I f Thus Thu the total receipt to the farmers wives for tor their care of the domestic fouls amounts to the snug mug little sum of 1340 In proof that the industry Indu try has yet room to expand it is only needed to state that Utah has bas Imported during the year pounds of ot dressed poultry which as has been stated before be before before fore is the smallest amount imported in any anyone one year during the past fifteen years President Price of the Utah Poultry association which institution has unaided un unaided unaided aided done more for the industry than all other factors put together in sum summing summing summing ming up the past year says that the season has ba been an exceptionally fa favorable favorable favorable one He states that iy t i turkeys tu ys alone the output has baa been nearly neady dou double double double ble to that of other years It is also his opinion that the farmers of the state are awaking to the importance of the industry indus tIT and that instead ln tead of be being beIng being ing the importer Utah win will in the near future be an exporter of poultry products Of the eggs exported during the flush season which last from February February February ary to June 15 the nearby n rby states of Montana Idaho Idabo Wyoming and Colo Colorado Colorado Colorado rado are the chief consumers |