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Show LARGE PROFITS IN POULTRY SAYS EDMONDS SALT LAKE CITY, Nov., Ill What can he don,, with the small poultry flock in Utah is capably illustrated il-lustrated in the pnst year's exix'r-ience exix'r-ience of II. E. ltedlings, a Corinne farmer, who maintains a flock of 375 hens. October 1, this your. Clyde C. Edmonds, assistant Ken-eral Ken-eral manager of the Utah Poultry Producers, a cooperative marketing -organization that handles eggs from Mr. Redllngs small flock along with those of approximately liMXl other poultrymen In the state, received a note telling how much he (Mr. Redllngs) had mnde In the year from his flock. Of the 375 hens 144 were yearling hens and therefore, did not produce during November, December and .Tannery. In spite of this Mr. Redllngs' .receipts for the year were $1453.39. After S7(l2.!rt had Iteen paid for feed -Mr. Redllngs still had ,$090.53, or an nvernge 'of $1.S4 per hen The cooperative considers a flock of this size Ideal as a unit in a bnlnnced farming program. The figures submitted by Mr. Redlings bear out the contention of the cooperative co-operative and of poultry speci'ilists that the small flock, properly man-aged man-aged and eared for, can be made to yield satisfactory and welcome returns. re-turns. "The pay check from such a flock is not large,'' comments Mr. Edmonds, "but when it comes regularly reg-ularly it helps in the farm home. Many small checks soon bni'd a bank account and the small flock can handle its share of the burden in balanced farming." |