Show n FEWER BIRDS BUT THEY LAY BETTER Increased Egg Production Is Being Maintained Prepared by tho the United tes Department Depart Dopart ment of Agriculture Service Hens and pullets are fewer but egg production Is Js being maintained because the fowls are laying more eggs per bird On October 1 1031 there were 02 per cent fewer hens and pullets for laying In farm flo flocks ks of the crop reporters as ns compared with October 1 a year ago and there were 62 52 per pcr cent fewer chickens An increase of 1 per cent Is reported for young chickens other than pullets for layers Egg production has been maintaIned maintained main main- tallied says the department despite the decrease In layers The number of eggs laid per farm flock was reported reported reported re re- re- re ported at eggs on October 1 compared with eggs on October 10 1030 O and 18 eggs for the October year 5 year average The aggregate of I 10 reported on the first of each month from January to October October October Octo Octo- ber Is 2 2911 11 eggs per farm flock In 1 1031 1931 31 compared with eggs In 1030 and 2852 eggs in the five years 1025 Converting the statistics Into eggs laid per hen the department depart depart- ment says that the October 1 average average aver aver- age for 1931 1031 was eggs per hens and pullets of ot laying age compared compared com corn pared with 2 In 1030 with In 1929 1029 and a n year 5 average of 2 2 for that date late Ten reported lay- lay Ings January to October aggregated 2895 eggs per birds last ye year r against eggs In 1030 1930 and for the 1929 1925 average |