| Show ak 7 TL S RECORDS VE VERIFY POULTRY PROFITS given good care feed and shelter return dividends that the person who keeps tit at least IOU standard bred hens helis on oil ills his farm la Is engaged in a venture la Is proved by a series of records kept by lock flock owners lu 43 north carolina counties in one of tile jobs of the poultry extension office la Is to keep study alad summarize cost of production records kept on poultry locks flocks in operation cooperation co with tho the county farm agents says P A seese poultry extension specialist st 6 at t the N north carolina state college last year this work was carried ried on in 43 counties located in widely separated parts of tile the state the records were kept on fit w with ith an average of birds for tile the year the alie gross income from eggs alone in these locks flock a a mounted amounted to 99 0 32 M 10 the hards consumed pounds of hinsh feed and pounds of gi guian itin feed which cost the lie owners tills this left a profit of fa as a return above feed cost mr at r seese says the birds hardg laid eggs which was an average of 1509 ellch n lien hen tile the figures the poultry specialist says they are as ag acau rate as any set of figures tint flint are h he ins ing kept today they show beyond nil all doubt that flint the man inan who keeps a good flock of bit birds As and gives them proper care and feed houses lio uses them well and keeck keep down disease and parasites may expect a good profit from his en ter prise it Is the purpose of the poultry workers in north carolina to mate make the poultry industry of greater commercial importance and they cite that it Is even now fifth in value to nil all crops grown there ar nr esome six million hens of laying age on the farms arms and the value of the industry la Is around |
