Show HATCHING OF CHICKS MADE MUCH EASIER TheUS TheU- WASHINGTON Feb The n-The u ti S department of or agrIculture lIes completed a series ot of ex- ex experiments ex CX experiments for tor determining facts regarding poultry raisins raising The rhe experiments were made to determine the Of e eggs gs to distinguish from roosters at an early ate age and to obtain other similar Information commercially Important but baffling bat battling fling I says the tho depart depart- depart probably la Is 1 best Improved by testing breeding bird birds for tor ha- ha bacillary ba white diarrhea and clint elim- elimInating mating affected birds The Tho size ot of o eggs has no significant significant cant effect on their There Is no significant correla correla- correlation correlation tion between either shape or weIght of ot egg and the sex ot of the th chicken h hatched from It While there Is It a a fairly d definite between behnen the weight ot of eggs and that of ot the chicks hatched batched from front them there is no significant difference In the tho weIght Of either cither sex and It is highly ira ira- Im Improbable probable that pro bred chicks I can bo ho separated according to sex at hatching time However male chicks grow fast fast- faster faster er er than the females and as early as two weeks of ot age sac there thero I Is a significant In the rate rato of growth between the sexes I I The Australian wheat crop may teach leach bushels due to good harvesting weather eather Instead ot of I bushels previously to- to reported re reported ported according to tho the international Institute of ot agriculture at Rome Illinois farmers lose S bushels of ot their small grain crop every year through inefficient threshing machine operation ae- ae according ac according cording to ores figures cited by I p Blauser of the tar far do- do department de department of ot the Illinois agricultural al at department The restriction In the entry ot of narcissus bulbs authorized by Sec Sec- Secretary Sec Secretary ot of Agriculture Wallace three years ago are to go Into effect as scheduled on January 1 wIthout modification Copyright ht 1926 NEA Service Ser Inc 00 00 |