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Show Poultry Hints Tuberculin testing of poultry Is valuable valu-able and accurate for diagnosing tuberculosis. tu-berculosis. Eggs supply iron and vitamins in the dietary, as well as other needed elements. An egg a day Is food insurance. in-surance. Chickens like people inherit certain abilities to live and resist diseases and other things that cause early death and we call this vitality or vigor. Birds will normally molt once a year. The best layers molt late, that is, in late fall. They are entitled to this rest and there is nothing-.one can. do except feed well and give them an opportunity to get back their lost flesh. Poultry flocks which are following the recommendations of the college, based on research, averaged 144 eggs per hen per year in 1931. The production produc-tion records of general farm Mocks were 105 eggs per hen the same year a difference of 39 eggs per hen per year! Iowa State College. |