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Show County Agent's Department POULTRY SITUATION The following inforeiation was just released by the U. A. C. The poultry industry is one or the lead-intf lead-intf sources of income in Utah county. There was :i reduction of five per cent in the number of )lcna j and pullets in the farm flocks in the United States January 1, in32j L as compared to the same date last year The commercial flocks on, j the Pacific coast also showed a j large decrease in numbers. This' Indicated a smaller production of j eggs for 1932. Conditions "up. tgfl 1 about the close of 1931 indicat.i 1 L'ne number of chickens raised inv, 1932 would be increased. The 1931 season had been favorable to egg proucers. However, a severe break in the winter egg prices in December De-cember of 1931 resulted in heavy storage loss and the large winter production of eggs altered the sit-uation sit-uation somewhat. With low win-ter win-ter egg prices a decrease, instead of an increase, in number of chickens chick-ens raised in 1932 might occur. Feed prices were iow in relation ' to egg prices during the latter part of 1931. and will continue low, at least until the next harvest. The carryover of storage eggs in 1932, while less than in 1931, was unusually heavy. Two profit- i aide storage years in succession will tend to curtail demand for eggs for storage this spring. The report on the eastern cold storage movement of eggs up to and including April S, for the four large cities, New York, Philadelphia. Philadel-phia. Chicago and Boston, shows that there was in storage on ttya date only 251,303 cases of eggs as compared with 1,111,256 cases on the corresponding day last year. This was a decrease of 860,953 cases. In other words there 21e neaily five times as many eggg ) in storage last year in these cities on April S, as on this same date 1 this year. The total receipts of eggs in these same cities for the I first three monriis of this year give another interesting comparison. These receipts for 1932 for January, Jan-uary, February and March were 3,15-1,335 cases, while last year during dur-ing the same period -1,127,370 cases er a decrease this year as compared with last year of 23.6 per cent. The out of state shipments of eggs from Utah for the period of ' November 1, to March 1, were 347 cars in 1931 and 230 cars this year, or a decrease of 117 cars of 33.7 per cent. The decrease in car lot shipments from the five western west-ern states, California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Utah dur- ' ing this same period is even great- ' er. Last year 2,478 cars of eggs j were shipped while this year only ' 1,520 cars, or a decrease of 958 cars ol 38.6 per cent during this period of five months beginning November Novem-ber 1. Indications at t he present time are that this yea r's pullet crop in Utah is likely to be somewhat some-what shorter than the crop last year. |