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Show CULL "SLACKER" I FOWLS IN FLOCK ! Poultry Methods Greatly Im- proved by Campaigns in Com-' Com-' munities in Idaho and Iowa. 'FARMERS' WIVES GET $177.2 Many New Poultry Houses Have Been i Constructed and Others Repaired and Cleaned Breeding Eliminates Elim-inates Nonlayers. Prepared by the United States Department Depart-ment of Agriculture.) Culling campaigns In Iowa and Idaho have greatly improved poultry methods In the communities where they were carried on. The home deni-1'onstratlon deni-1'onstratlon agent, co-operatively employed em-ployed hi Marshall county, Iowa, by the Stale Agricultural college and the United Slates Department of Agriculture, Agricul-ture, states that many new poultry liouscs have been built af.d many others oth-ers repaired and cleaned. In one month, with the assistance of a specialist spe-cialist from the State Agricultural col- Sege, CG demonstrations of culling were ;lven, 050 persons attended and 7,320 ilrds were handled from which there were 3,003 culled out. Records Were Kept. Thirteen egg records were kept for two weeks before and after the demonstration. dem-onstration. Tho owners found that 2,219 birds laid 5,492 eggs before cull- tng and that after culling 1,527 birds aid 5,379 eggs, which meant that 692 keere not producing. The "slackers" twere sold for 25 cents per pound, and netted $177.22 for the farmers' wives. In another county In Iowa during pne month 02 demonstrations were field in the culling of home poultry flocks by the home demonstration agent In which 6,833 birds were bandied and 2,000 culled out. at a sav- , i, pd'aVN Home Demonstration Agent Culling "Slackr" Hens. 1 ing of $3,322 on feed. About $1,200 1 ;was realized from the sale of these ' nonproduciry birds. ) Big Saving in Idaho. Six home demonstration agents In jldaho counties report poultry culling with the result of saving $51,306. Interesting In-teresting reports from the counties Include In-clude the building of 25 standard-type poultry houses, a tuberculosis eradication eradica-tion campaign, two poultry excursions .with an attendance of 170 interested people, and a community breeding circle to demonstrate that systematic breeding tends to eliminate nonlaying tens. |