Davis County Clipper | 1934-02-16 | Page 2 | Depreciation, Labor and Mortality, Cost of Eggs

Depreciation Labor and Mortality Cost of Eggs The three big Items In the cost of producing the worth or more of e eggs gs that Illinois farm farmers farmers ers sell every even year are feed depre elation which Includes mortality and labor according to records tn twenty enty poultry men kept dur durIng durIng durIng Ing the past In co with Ith the extension service of the College of Agriculture University of Illinois Any lock flock owner who ho cuts down on these Items therefore wilt will be go- go goIng go going ing lag a long way toward getting a Ider margin of net return out of the gush tint that lie le receives for his eggs It Is pointed out by II 11 II Alp poultry extension specialist of the college I the best opportunity to reduce feed cost Is to Improve the average a egg production of each hen henIn henIn henIn In the flock floch as the good layers eat but little more feed than the medi mediocre mediocre ogre ocre layers Too many flocks carry cury about 20 O per cent hens defaulters defaulters that start laying and then quit quit- quit and It Is this class of birds which runs up the feed co cost t of a n dozen eggs