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Show of 200 to 500 hens, you could mab $200 to $1000 extra income Z year. "Utah is especially suited for this type of poultry keeping, in junction with our large commercial flocks. Not only would this poultn add materially to the income & our farms and part time worker! by millions of dollars each year but it would furnish a source oi employment for our boys and girls." "With poultry they codd learn a good vocation as well as principles of thrift and responsibility." responsibil-ity." Millard County Extension Service. Poyltry Proves To Be Main Source Of Farm Income Poultry is particularly suited to small farms and part time farming. farm-ing. In 1945, poultry was the main source of agricultural income for eight states, including Utah and seven New England states. The 1940 census showed that 11,568 farms in Utah reported less than 100 hens. There was an average aver-age of only 29 hens per farm, with only 3894 farms having more than 100 hens. This means that 75 percent per-cent of the total number of chickens. chick-ens. It also means that 75 percent of our- farms have insufficient chickens to be of economical importance. im-portance. Utah has a poultry marketing system equal to any in the country and with its present marketing set- ' up could handle several times the volume of eggs and poultry it now handles. Poultry management practices have changed materially during the past few yearsy'-'These changes have resulted in greater ease in caring for the poultry flock and a great reduction in the time involved. involv-ed. These management changes include in-clude multiple deck laying houses, larger pens with less partitions, family-sized laying cages, and deep litter for the floor. A hen properly cared for will return re-turn a labor income $1 to $2 per year above costs. So with a flock |