Show EGGS ond and CHICKENS wil W il A 1 I q V ier j 11 t T 4 4 r A modern poultry farm in Arne arnetice tica prep pi bared od by national hlo society P I 1 0 experts ot of the do department POULTRY part ment of agriculture after careful experiments and ett idles have bare included eon Lo eluded that there to is no act truth tn in the old contention that the breeding of poultry strains for high ipg reduction production la Is impairing the quality of eggs I 1 or untold centuries the hen has haa been a companion of man in the onward march of civilization in america where poultry bus bandry has attained its greatest development the hen has become one of our lending leading national assets growing in the past fifty years from a neglected aide line on the average farm to a position where she Is con soldered by the farmer oa as a very efficient contributor to his yearly income co in 0 the llie hen might bo be termed a uni versal favorite in that a gretter greater number of persons persona are interested and actually concerned with ith poultry than with any other form of live stock last year there were more than limn chickens in the united states mates ahe yearly value of the products of the american lien has at times pasted tile the billion dollar mark maril 1 I 1 I lie he great bulk of poultry and eg agga egga s produced in the united states come from the corn belt states of the upper tipper mississippi valley in fact nearly one orie half of our poultry population or approximately chickens Is found in what are known as ag the north rth central centra I 1 states no longer loneer a hobby lor many lars eara a considerable proportion of our poultry population was kept in back lots of city end and suburban suburb nn communities by per soni engaged in some remunerative munera tive poultry was raised largi largely ly for pleasure and as a hobby and incidentally lo 10 0 o insure a goodly supply of freih eggs ani meal for the family table surveys made a few years ago in castern urban and Bu suburban burban areas showed an average of one bird to every two people S ich flocks av erasing from 10 to 25 fowls were usually well cared for and consisted of birds of high quality the postwar period hits has witnessed the gradual disappearance of many of these hark back lot poultry men 1 ifill change tn in habits among a great mass of our population has fortunately been by the development of large commer caal poultry farms and specialized hennerley henn eries erles which have found popular ivor avor not only on tile the north ameeran Ame ican continent but in many old world countries commercial gultry farms are es pe dechilly chilly success successful fid near large cen of population where here the demand Is for a strictly fresh new laid ess egg and fresh killed poultry of such enterprises are being successfully operated in the atlantic find and coast states the pastern pattern sections produce especially for the new york trade and the pacific coast sections after meeting the denvin deminds ds of the larger pacific calist cattes ship their eggs to tle the atlantic Ren seaboard board v where here they find a leady market tit at attract we live prices industry in systemized System lied enry changes eli anges have been going on in the poultry industry for ten years less and less attention Is being given to the purely I 1 fancy I 1 and to the brt berteling eling of exhibition fon foals iq and more at aid d more stress Is being laid on thel economic value in the production of human food the farm farin poultry in en are begin ning to apply sound round principles in tho the dinati brement of their flocks and are org coope cooperatively to move their graded eggs quickly to the birge consuming centers the little IN hate I 1 leghorn hens hena of the Vet alumn district in central california have hae become world fa because of the intensive con biti is under which aich ther are kept lit in n freds of thousands being massed mamed lit in one small va ley the entire corn com defends upon commercial egg far farming ieng for a livelihood it m as not go BO many years ago that the amer american 1 con lien hen ruled supreme in the capa mtv of or and brood er faithfully sitting out the 21 dreary days on the nest cautiously lending leading her tender brood of huffy youngsters oung through the early stages of their development I 1 the hen Is too valuable today us a an eg machine to allow her to waste weeks A a and nd month a in hatch batch ing birgs rind and arm brooding d ng chicks due to its greater eVi efficiency clency the modern incubator hes has gradually replaced the hen the rapid increase in poultry and the gro el ving demand for fir baby chicks have bare called for the development of incubators of much greater capacity than formerly credit for making possible our great commercial poultry industry should go in large measure to the modern mammoth incubator ator equipped with ith automatic venelia vent lia tion and temperature control with laborsaving labor saving devices to ell eliminate mInate hand turning and hand cooling with eggs stacked deck upon deck or tier upon tier efficiently em dently heated with coal kerosene keros or electricity electric it y parallel with the develop development Luent 0 ot the mammoth incubator there hn has bucl evolved the colony brooder heated by coal or kerosene with a capacity of from to 1000 chicks under each stove one operator can ly manage from 12 to 15 such brooding units and cna can successfully cess fully carry through the brood ing period from to 1500 clarks the real romance of modern poul pont try huB husbandry bandry tins lias been the unprecedented ce growth in the production and shipment of ready made baby chicks hatched in mammoth marn moth in cuba cu batora tors on bleeding farms or at commercial hat hatherley herles the chicks provide the most economical and convenient nichea of securing one olle is a foundation aock of enlarging ones lock flock and of providing future generations erat ions of infers sl W appl ia n baby chicks meily hatching eggs were the medium whereby one purchased stork stock from but some 25 years ago from the little village of stockton N J in the delaware river valley the first baby chicks were shipped for a number rf cf years one poul tryman had been supplying chicks in small quantities to neighbors the succeeds which aich they had with this method of acquiring poultry stock soon spread and little by little littie orders came for checka from more distant points until finally it became to make deliveries to la person over the increasing distances from which they were ero do de mend d so it came about that this demand was met by putting the chicks into cotton lined wooden boxes with holes in the top for yenti ventilation ti twenty live five chicks were placed in a package and shipped by express to their destination the experiment proved to be a success from this small beginning the in austry g agn dually grew until today there are in the united states sey sev eral thousand lint cherles equipped to produce baby chicks for ship ment and having a capacity of approximately egsa eg s tit at one sitting culling the Non producers a the poultry departments of our many state agricultural colleges have been responsible during the past quarter of a century for the development of many scientific facts and practices the practical applications of v have made possible commercial commer cIRI poultry keeping the ability malch alch the ponI tryman now possesses to cull his birds on a basis bagis of external et ernil character to eliminate the non producers from bitne to time as appear in the flock floe k la 13 an outstanding example beekly culling during the sum mer and fall brings about a ti alon 0 n of the feed costs without any detre decrease aie in egg yield culling li iq done by tile the condition of certain secondary sex characters and body factors the lading hen has a bright red full comb hin not laying the comb becomes in ich smaller sm iler appears appe ars shrunken and dry the hens heair laying hen has a loose pliable soft abdomen in tle nn am lading hen the abdomen becomes 8 smell moll 1 and hard the hen chich Is laying and has baa been lading heavily for some time shows absence of lellow bellow pigments i in shanks beak ear lobe and skin due to the fact that the bellow color which ste obtains from her feed has been used up in the production of egg bolks As soon as she ceases to lay this color begins to return first to the ear car lobes then the beak then to the shanks so that there Is the definite existing between amount of yellow pi pigment galent and productive condition it Is by observing ing certain of 0 f these body cha chartters raters that the can tell whether hether biddy la Is sim ply strutting around the pen looking handsome or Is li hard ird at work producing figs |