Show OLD SETTIN HEN HENIN IN LOSING RACE on Farm Hatch 24 Per Cent of Chicks Chicles Prepared by the United States Staten Department of or Agriculture A I The fluffy old mother hen lien continues to lose out In the race with the mechanical me substitutes but she Is still on IOn the Job according to the reports sent cent ent to the United States Department of t Agriculture by the crop correspondents correspondents corre of ot the bureau of ot agricultural agricultural agri cultural economics About 43 per cent of f all ail chickens raised ore are still hatched under tinder hens the reports Indicate Incubator Incubators Incubators In In- on the farm hatch about 24 4 per er cent of the chickens raised and eggs supplied by farmers and hatched for n a fee amount to about 10 per cent hatcheries now no hatch about 23 per cent of the annual baby chicks crop J I A distinct difference is evident e when regional areas are compared In the South Atlantic states from Virginia to Florida and In the South Central states the hen holds her own and hatches j jAbout I About two-thirds two of ot the chicks as comPared compared com corn pared with all others Rhode Island I with only 14 per cent of ot hen hatched i i chicks Is the lowest in this respect ct and andIn i In no other states Is the perc percentage nta e lower than 20 The North orth Atlantic Atlantic j I jand and the Western states buy the HIe largest 1 proportion of baby chicks chicles 45 per cent I find and 41 per cent respectively Farm limm latching hatching of chicks In Incubators is most popular in the North Central j i j states more than 30 per cent being reported reported re- re rei i ported from this source Missouri and anel Kansas each with 40 per cent of their thelL chicks hatched In iu incubators on the farms Jarms are high In this group I |