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Show Fill Vacant Coops, Urges Poultryman "While this may not be an opportune oppor-tune time for building new coops 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 we already have and to bring our out-of-state shipments ship-ments back to where they were in 1931," says a report just issued by Professors Byron Alder and Carl Frischknecht, extension poultrymen of :he Utah State Agricultural college. "Those who can, should brood enough chicks to fill their coops to capacity," the report continues. The poultrymen then suggest that a little money be put aside from each egg check throughout the entire year to replenish the flocks and enable the owners to continue in business from ear 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 308 cars under the 1931 figure, and the egg produc-ion produc-ion for 1933 will drop below that of last year, it is predicted, because many of the hens in Utah flocks are growing old and approaching the nonproductive non-productive stage. As an excellent market has been set up in the east, poultrymen are urged to replenish their flocks by chicks from accredited hatcheries in Utah at an early date, |