Show IN CARE alf observance of five fundamental practices in the care of poultry Is necessary if farmers are to obtain full advantage from the favorable market conditions predicted for 1929 according to poultry authorities who have made observation of conditions during the past year here are the essentials to profitable poultry raising in 1829 as the experts see them extreme sanitation in care of the laying hens production of products for better prices an adequate feeding program keeping of adequate records to show cost of producing product and betterment of stock on the average farm of these essential requirements sanitation adequate feeding and keeping of records depend entirely upon the amount of care taken by the farmer the other two requirements production of a better quality product and the betterment of stock depend largely upon the kind of chicks produced by the hatcheries from better stock must inevitably come since hens on the average farm arr not of the high egg laying type from which it Is profitable to breed the average farm hen of today ac cording to U S government observation lays too few eggs to enable the farmer to secure the profit he should have from his poultry flock and a he ame time lays too small an egg to cure top prices for the product betterment of farm flocks has been noticeable during the past few years farm statistics show this betterment coincides with the re port of the international baby chick estimating an increase the sale of baby chicks during the past few years to the number of in 1928 still greater improvement in the a farm flock Is predicted for th and following years due to organ lz alon of leading hatcheries of th country into a business association pledged to produce only the best of quality chicks from stock of known producing ability members of this organization identified by the slogan hatchery chicks tor greater profits are also pledged to observance of the best of business practices in their dealings with customers as part of their program designed to gradually pra dually increase the quality of hen on american farms |