Show DAY FOB HENS ADVOCATED A twelve hour working day tor bens has been advocated for making the farm flock earn its way in the most efficient manner farmers who arise at dawn and retire long after sun down set an example they will do well to have their poultry follow particularly during winter months when egg prices are most profitable egg production is the backbone of the poultry business there are but few farmers who would keep many bens if the only returns were from the birds sold as meat winter eggs are the ones that bring highest prices but they are also the hardest ones to secure cold weather and short days encourage hens to eat only sufficient feed to maintain their bodies without exerting themselves to the point of producing eggs to help pay their room and board through the use of lights in the poultry house winter days can be stretched to the twelve hour limit experience has shown that maximum egg production cannot be secured when the hens have to sit on the boosts roosts for a longer time than twelve hours most people prefer morning lights rather than evening as the grain may be put in the utter in the evening and the lights turned on mechanically with the hens doing a twelve hour stretch of scratching and feeding eggs are produced abundantly and the bank account swells the eastern san juan telephone company has filed application with the colorado state public utilities commission for permission to build a telephone line from its present terminus in utah two miles west of the colo rado utah state line to the town of dove creek in dolores county there is no direct communication by telephone at present between lockerby utah and dove creek colo a distance of ten miles telephone ms ages from lockerby must now be routed through monticello and thomp sons utah and grand junction durango and mancos in colorado to dove creek harry mahleres price was in moab this week on district court business attorney B W dalton of price ws in moab this week representing clients in district court mr and mrs C E bailey returned monday from a weeks visit at salt lake city carios allcox and sons ray and loren were in moab this week on district court business D E baldwin went to salt lake city yesterday to drive back a new truck for the moab garage company frank graham and william went to price monday on business returning yesterday |