Show Information Is Need of Poultry j Market Man Must Base His Op Operations rati ns on Limited Knowledge Prepared by the United States D Department nt of 01 Agriculture 1 Need for tor more complete poultry st star sta with which to tu enable producers ers and the trade more to meet consumption demand was emphasized em em- by Rob Hob R. R Slocum poultry marketing specialist of the bureau of f agri agricultural economics United States Department of Agriculture ture addressing address address- ing lag the National Poultry Butter Dutter and Egg association lation at Louisville Ky Under present conditions Mr Slocum declared the market man Dlan must base his operations on on such limited tim lim Information as Is now available find nd on his own opportunities often decidedly limited to form an opinion as to plo provable able production The producer producer producer pro pro- ducer likewise must adjust his production pro program on a decidedly Inadequate inadequate In in- adequate basis on which to Judge of the probable size of ot the tue poultry and egg crops which will be available during during dur dur- ing lug the ensuing season The Industry industry Indus indus- try needs a much clearer clearer picture of current conditions and of oC th probable trends of the Imm immedIate and remote future to enable It to regulate production most intelligently and to market marlet the poultry and egg crops to the best advantage of Product The industry according to Mr Air Slocum account i 1 last year ear for Id per cent of the total value of live livestock livestock livestock stock and its products but because ause the Industry is widespread and because because because be be- cause of the relative Invisibility of the crop accurate and antI complete poultry poul pout try crop Information is particularly difficult to obtain A Department of Agriculture committee has been givIng giving ing lag careful consideration lon to the problem rob rob- lem of developing more adequate asia asis statistics for this In industry the collection tabulation and und release of which the committee believes may be performed most logically by the state and federal government Collection of Statistics A tentative program formulated b by this committee Includes the collection of statistics on producing st stocks on hand young oung stock on farms and und receipts at country concentration con con- points a great deal of other other oth oth- er er- Important data can an be derived To undertake the collection of these basic statistics Air Mr Slocum said it would be be necessary necessary for the department to expand considerably the reports which it now receives probably to reclassify Its Us list of voluntary vol 01 reporters and to extend their number considerably and very to tu employ some paid observers It would als als' be necessary to employ a I competent statistician with adequate assistants who could devote their entire en tire Ure time to toOl Ol work oi for the poultry In In- The flie wholehearted support and operation co of the tile tr trade de would b be required |