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Show BIG SAVING MADE BY CULLING OUT SCRUBS Nonproducing Fowls Eliminated From Many Flocks. Extension Agents Explain Method of Weeding Out So Thoroughly That Poultry Raisers Soon Become Be-come Efficient. (Prepared by the United Stntea Department of Agriculture.) Approximately $40,000 was saved to poultry men in Texas last year through the work of extension workers employed em-ployed co-operatively by the United States Department of Agriculture and the state agricultural college. In 14 counties of Maine the saving was about $1,394.40. These sums represent repre-sent the money value of culling, estimated es-timated on the feed cost of one cent a day a hen. In Maine 15,004 hens were examined In culling demonstrations and 4. JUS culls removed. In Texas about 15,- ' rtjf g Extension Agent Explaining Method of Culling. 000 hens were culled. That this culling cull-ing was successful is shown by the following figures: 10 birds were culled from a flock of 54, and in the next seven days the culls laid only 20 eggs; 200- birds were culled from flock'; Totaling To-taling 84G and in the next seven dn.vs laid 26 eggs. Of the entire number of hens culled in Maine, the percentage of egg production for the entire flock was 32.3, for the liens left after culling cull-ing 40.7 per cent, and for the culls 4.5 per cent. The number of poultry owner's Instructed In-structed In Maine was 3.043 and In Texas 8,000, many of whom afterward culled their own flocks. The estimated savings represent only a part of the total value of this work. As a result of the demonstrations In one section In Maine, 79 persons eliminated 1,420 birds as culls, while In Texus the culling cull-ing that resulted from all demonstrations demonstra-tions was valued at $125,000. . The extension agents not only demonstrated dem-onstrated that the non-producing lien could be eliminated but explained the method of culling so thoroughly that those present could go home and put It Into practice nearly as effectively as the demonstrators themselves." Prepare Land Well. Garden or fruit well prepared Is much easier taken care of durum the summer than land poorly prepared. See that the soli Is clean, tine and free from roots or stones. Plant Some Shade Trees. If you have no shade trees about your premises set some this spring. |