Show Poultry Farmers To Get Better Prices Farmers may expect better prices for their chickens and eggs this fall compared with last mainly on account of the reduced production which it Is expected will result from the scarcity and high price of feed according to the summer mid-summer poultry and egg outlook report of the Bureau o of Agricultural Economics Poultry production this year I Ithe is the sma smallest since 1925 reports the bureau The number of chickens chickens chickens chick chick- ens hatched this year was about abou 10 per cent less than last year and the number of hens in farm flocks on August 1 was three pe per percent percent cent less than on that date last las year There has been more than tha normal disposal of hens and pu pullets pullets pul- pul lets in drouth areas of the central central central cen cen- states Stocks of dressed poultry i in cold storage August 1 were about about a about a- a bout two per cent less than o on August 1 1 1933 Scarcity of feed fee in m many lY important poultry producing producing producing pro pro- states slates Is forcing poultry poultry- men to dispose of some of the their surplus stock earlier than usual usua usual and a a. considerable reduction i in number of layers through th the winter is expected The prospective reduction o of eggs throughout the fall and winter winter winter win win- ter and the small production production production pro pro- in prospect next spring i should result in a a. a level of fannI farm fann I prices sufficiently high to offset in part a higher price of feed feed The bureau suggests that producers ers who are able to do so so maintain maintain maintain main main- tain their laying flocks and carry young chickens over to heavier weights where natural range i is available |