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Show should have one, for poultry occupy a, recognized position in successful balanced bal-anced farming. These small flocks will go a long way toward building up a greater poultry industry in Utah and, without doubt .this state is one entitled en-titled to give consideration to expansion expan-sion in the industry. Our eggs command com-mand premiuns on all markets. The industry is big, but the market is bigger and can use and wants Utah eggs in increasing numbers each year." SMALL FLOCK HENS IS ASSET TO ANY FARM EGGS HIGH The small poultryman with a flock of 300 to 500 hens, which he operates! more or less as a sideline activity and as a factor in the diversified farming idea so well entrenched in the Great Salt Lake va!lt, is really the backbone of the growing egg industry in-dustry in Utah. Such is the conclusion conclu-sion of Clyde C. Edmonds, executive secretary of the Utah Poultry Producers Pro-ducers Co-operative Association, a marketing society owned and opera- ' ted by about 1C00 farmers in all parts of the state. Association records for the last two years show the small " flock, given proper attention and cared car-ed for scientifically, can be made to pay. Several instances are cited where farmers having flocks of about 300 hens report earnings for the year of $1.60 per hen .making the year's revenue re-venue from the flock $45.00. "There are some producers," explained Secretary Se-cretary Edmonds, "who complain they cannot make both ends meet with a flock of 200 to 300 hens But it has been proved by others that given adequate ade-quate attention such flocks can be made to bring in a welcome check each week. Furthermore, it takes no more time to care for a flock scientifically scien-tifically than it does in the common haphazard manner and the returns are so much greater." Between sixty and seventy-five per cent of the association membership falls in the "small producer" class. The association is one of the few cooperative co-operative marketing bodies in the United States successful from the start Hence the association feels justified jus-tified in pointing toward the profits to be derived from the small flock operated more or less as a side issue. 'The small flock usually is cared for by the farmer's wife," further observes ob-serves Secretary Edmonds. "She feeds the hens and gathers the eggs. There is room in Utah for many more small flocks. In fact every farm |
