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Show EXPERTS URGE FILLING COOPS While this may not be an opportune- time for building new C00pi and buying equipment, it is felt that enough baby chicks should be brooded in Utah this year to put in use the coops and equipment already had and to bring out-of-state shipments luck to where they were in 1931, says a report issued by Professors Byron Alder and Carl Frifchknecht, extension poultry-men poultry-men of the Utah State agricultural agricul-tural college. Those who can, should brood enough chicks to fill their coops j to capacity, the report continues. contin-ues. The poultrynien then suggest sug-gest that a little money be put aside from each egg check during dur-ing the year to replenish the flocks and enable the owners to continue in business from year to year. The above recommendation is based on an investigation of the number of carloads of eggs shipped from Utah during 1932. It was found that out of state shipments fell 306 cars under the 1931 figure, and the egg production pro-duction tor 193 3 will drop below be-low that of last year, it is predicted, pre-dicted, because many of the hens in Utah flocks are growing grow-ing old and approaching the non- ' prcduct.'-e stage. As an excellent market has be-n -..et up in the east, poul-trymc.i poul-trymc.i c e ir.;;ed to replenish their ":. ks ,: chicks from accredited ac-credited hatcheries in Utah, at I an early iliio. |