Show CULL HEN FLOCKS EARLY AND OFTEN poor producers cut deeply into profits by culling poultry from the time they thay are baby chicks on through the laying period it Is possible to boost egg production and In increate creame the in conic come from froin the farm lock flock says bays P it zumbro extension specialist in poultry of the ohio state university cost account records kept by 78 poultry men in northwestern ohio in olento that egg production per bird la is one of the most important factors influencing poultry profits he point out ot of the 78 poultry men 85 made mad less leas titan a dollar profit per bird and had an average pio production of 11 5 eggs egea per bird thirty six poultry men made between a dollar and two lot del ints inia per bird and had an average production of eggs seven farmers a profit of more two dollars per bird had an egg production of eggs luring during the year culling Is one ure sure way to increase the production per bird to insure that only good producers will be kept and that birds not even paying for their feed will be discarded it to la befit beat to keep only those birds having constitutional vigor of good atzeff size atze of sexual maturity and free from aeilous breed and variety defects Trap neat nest records re corda show that pullets which mature early are the boot best producers and in culling the flock it to Is best beat to keep pullets which start laying early |