Show 10— Grailar Cache Valley Edition The Herald Journal I1 June Thursday 1959 18 Up With P1 - B Heiea Henlrjr ‘ Staff Correspondent of Monitor Science Christian The The newest venture of Ned Larrabee peterbo rough New Hampshire shows how poultry-me- n who wantto stay in business as ' Independents are having to find new ways to serve the public Already vertical integration in the United States has absor ’tfffd in which tremendous operation ' processors and manufacturers makct the plans issue- orders spmethnes finance the farmer and finally' pay him for breeding chicks or producing eggs much as farmers themselves' have paid their hired binds i Only a few like E W Larrabee known to his friends as Ne have been' abfe to resist th tren£toward integration and continue to be their own bosses Mr Larrabee who for 35 years has most of the time been a step or two ahead of poultrymen in genera ha begun marketing to local stores frozen cooked chicken pies made at his Nedlar Farms A number of large industries are already trying to mast his special quality product that he feels will justify pricing them at 59 cents for the individual pie about 20 cents above the average retail price He also makes family size pie which sells for $158 They all carry the Nedlar Firms label -- Although he considers this venture still in the experimental stage it is going weU enough so that he has dared to add pther products including frozen- chicken croquettes and a new dish called chicken Paprikasb developed from an Hungarian recipe giyen hirmby friends Next on his list: chicken a la king t Nedlar Farms which were on the edge of Peterborough when the Larrabee settled there in 1924 are now surrounded fcy the town The well-kewhite buildings spread around oq a picturesque hill hot far'Iroih the town center include the offices the bright clean kitchen where the pies arc ' prepared under Mrs Carrabce’s supervision and in pt separate houses stotaf of 10000 birdp 7 The hatchery has a capacity of 180000 eggs Mr Larrabee:iiella baby chicks eggs Tor hatching marketing eggs and more 'recently has gone into the "started chick" business This means he' raisea chicks to the age of 12 weeks for other farmers One house can brood 18000 chicks Although some of these buddings are more than 30 years old they have been modernized to include standby generator a'bulk feeding system and automatic egg sorting Mr- Larrabee's special Interest is genetics and he hai provided the pedigreed foundation stock for many other hatcheries On one of his strains he said he hai records for34 generations Mixed hybrids and crossbreeds developed for specific purposes have largely replaced purebreda Mr Larrabee said although purebred are used to develop the crossbreeds Up until the early 1920'a when he got his start the poultry bus- - r— - the Times iness had been mostly 1 matter of the farmer's wife keeping a few chickens for pin money During the '20's hundreds' of thousn ands of poultry farms sprang up all over the country and became the main source ‘of income for the family More recently during the past live years the trend toward vertical integration has revolutionized methods of poultry farming and has put many small farmers out of business or made them hired hands of a giant complex poultry industry "The wreckage hai been great among oldtlmeri" Mr Larrabee aid sadly "Evolution Is good but revolution is bad because it destroys Evolution la a process but revolution of poultry operations cspie overnight without transition It brought not only bankruptcies but suicides" He belongs to a national hatchery organization which five years ago had about 12000 members Now it has not much over 2000 he laid and It will continue to shrink The service previously rendered by many small poultry-men- t hai been supplanted by a few' Mg organizations that handle' everything Xrom grain foe chickens to final distribution of egga and dressed poultry to chain store -- one-ma- Thc'Uenerai Motors integrat- ed type inf poultry business has made It almost Impossible for fellows like me to adapt" said Mr Larrabee "But I decided-would not be an old fogey I am going to be 'modern" What he called the "collapse" of rail transportation has meant that he can no longer ship baby chicks in quantity iacrosq the country ’Big integrated hatcheries have their own specially equipped trucks to carry baby chlcka but ordinary trucks da not provide the controlled conditions required to keep the chicks alive But he still gets lpts of calls from oversea for breeding stock ' ‘ J “At the end of World War II we sent thousands of baby chicks to the Austrian Government to build up their depleted flocks" ’ I i ' Industrial confercnccT sponsored by Utah Stalel - I ' Universlty are Senator Reed jBullen’ left L B Culnc- - water trsfi official - t it--r- ' and ' How Long Dean's Recommendations Should Utah Water Problem Regarding Co w Be Dry? reasonable degree of efficiency Dean F Peterson - Dr Even a good dairy cow can chdat you One pound or butter-fa- t can be last in yearly production for each day a cow Is dry after seven or eight weeks That’s what Purdue University researchers found in comparing the length of time cows are dry with their yearly milk and production In IT herds tested 11 had an average dry period per cow of 56 ays The other six herds were in tnilk less than 300 days The 11 herds returning 425 pounds of butterfat per cow per year the other six only 286 pounds per cow The study shows a cow should be dry six to eight weeks after a — lactation of aliout 300 days She should drop a calf within 12 or but-terf- dean of engineering at Utah Slate University' makes the following recommendations regarding Utah's water problems: Development of the upper Colorado river including the central Utah project must be completed’ Federal investment — repaid by tiie beneficiaries— necessary for financing this development must he maintained Utrh must make certain' this development proceeds on schedule -- The naire of water occurrence in the jdalc must be fully understood aiid dese'rihcd In oeder that her body for the next lactation probably won't produce as well as one that has a dry period tests indicate Keep1 a record of breeding dates Purdue says to 13 months after her previous help you decide if good producers calving are giving the best returns for A cow not allowed to build up feed and labor of use may be achieved through sensible planning Research is needed on the problems of physically controlling the water in order that more economic works can be constructed A review of water policies water rights and water administration procedures in terms of available water supply and future economic potentialities should be made Present procedures were developed 75 years ago under ' economic conditions widely different from today's Extensive education in water use in agriculture and industry needs to be strengthened so that the results of new and known information may be placed into practical use fi water laboratory la necessary to gain the basic information required to take intelligent action on Utah's'water problems WITH THE INTERMOUNTAIN WEST Mountain Fuel Supply Company now in its 30th year of Natural Gas service to communities in Utah and Wyoming is continuing its program of exploration and distribution on an accelerated scale in 1959 — a Capital expenditures will again be on a basis to anticipate the growing industrial aird residential needs of the area we serve This aggressive plan will be a vital factor in the further development of this wonderful section of the -- United StatclWef with other progressive institutions operating in this territory have our eyes to the future ACI90N Seeing 82 communities in Utah to “The things that make up the better f life — growth progress payrolls conveniences— don’t just happen They have to be planned and developed The Salt Lake City Chamber of Commerce is an organization devoted to the planriing and work that can be done only hy voluntary and Wyoming with Natural Gas cooperative effort Its aim i$TO getr things moving and keep them moving for the benefit of everyone in the entire intermountain region Membership of 1500 business and professional leaders ’making up the Chamber of Commerce have their shoulders to the wheel Things ore moving i i t i T Chamber of Commerce LAKE of SALT ' rji MOUNTAIN FUEL SUPPLY COMPANY Natural pas r - the Modern Fuel for Industrial and Household Purposu CITY 0-- t ‘ C I y- - t — t a -- -- - - :- |