Show BRIGHTER OUTLOOK FOR POULTRY MEN puce of eggs everywhere on increase prepared by the united states department of 0 agriculture service with the price of corn and wl eat lower than it has been for several bears ears and the price of eggs on the in creise the outlook for the poultry lu in autry appears brigl brigi ter in the ion ton of dr al A jull poultry special 1st of the united states department of agriculture another point in favor of the poul pout try man Is that heavy cull ng of farm floal s reduced the number of laying hens by about ordinarily alese tl ese hens would not be culled out until the fall but last spring farmers nere interested more than usual in saving feed bills still another factor which makes the future look tool brighter for the poul pout try industry is the fact that there were fewer chicks hatched last spring than usual this Is true of early hatched chicks so that the early fall production of eggs fell short of last years supply with increases in prices doctor jull believes the immediate future of tie tl e poultry industry to be fairly good particularly tor for those who produce eggs and high quality poultry for machet for hatcher men alo wl pro duce high quality chicks and for farm ers and commercial poultry men who give their flocks the best management and who practice effi efficient clent culling good laying hen makes money for her owner take 84 pounds of grain plus one good laying I 1 1 en and ou have 12 dozen e egas s with gr grain ain selling at one and a half cents per bound aund and eggs sell ing 80 cents per dozen this means a value of 3 CO for the grain or a prout profit of 2 52 32 over the cost of the feed or selling grain at a price of 4 28 per hundredweight here are some more figures the hen which lays only 20 eggs causes cause a loss lob of 64 cents over the cost of feed tor for one year the hen which lays 50 eggs causes a loss of croe cent the hen which lays eggs a profit of the hen which lays eggs produces a profit of while hile the hen which lays eggs brings profit of 3 74 watch the danger line and get rid of the board ers wrong time to water unscrupulous poultry dealers have been I 1 to teed feed chickens sand and gravel ranel to Inc increase reaze their weight but heres here s a new one an alent of the federal food and drug administration visited a wl poultry house and found that dressed ch chickens lehens were be ing given hypo injections of nater A hose terminating in a hoi hot lov to v needle was used fach bird re caled several ounces of water which was gradually absorbed this in creased the weight and made the scrawny birds look plumper though federal agents could not interfere since the chickens were not dot shipped interstate state officials later se sezel zel the profit making hose and fined the dealer poultry notes the loss sustained by poultry men because of poor egg quality Is enor a As 0 A good way to combat poultry lice is to dip the entire flock on a warm day in a polut on of one ounce of sod urn fluoride to each gallon of wafer a a mites in the hen ben house are easily date by the use of spray pray or pil pit t the entire inside with nith tl ti e suh after thoroughly clean ing tie tl e place ask byoir yo ir druggist tuberculosis Is rarely found la in fowls less than six months old most farm floal s are infected with this d sease an effect effective Ile preventive step is to get rid of all birds before they are two years old 0 several of tl tie e d ceases tint wit attack I 1 growing chicks are definitely traced to a lack of r s in tl ti belr rations 0 hens lens lay best in april and may when the days are from ito 14 hours long artificial Artif leial illumination Is used to imitate in irate the best working day tor for hens Is a ng the cost of feed and price of eggs a poultry expert in new york sas that a ten dust lay an egg two days out of tl ti ree in order to I 1 lay ay pr fits this year near A recent relent of lilal survey of a large nun her of new jersey pout poultry try farms sho shoes s an aver avenge averige ige pr production of es agns per hen flocks have to avenge averige better than that to pay a prof in these times 0 I 1 ess poultry on farms reduced st r age stocks of poultry and eggs sus lined i n of poultry prod acts ind acte ca ear o e feeds in relation to t r rices of p aultry in I 1 egas are the itsvan I 1 ng actors tors in the poultry I 1 outlook accord ng to the united states department of agriculture |