Show expert issues poultry data march and april are the best months to brood chicks in utah 1 dr r carl utah state stale agricultural college extension poultry poul inan announces rt it is not too late for poultry pro dubers of the bee hive dihe state to order and obtain high quality baby chicks for brooding tills this y ea eai r poultry producers throughout utah and ill alic rest of the country will hu buy about six si per cent fewer chicks this year ear than they did in hi 1946 lie estimated Par farmers usually raise fewer chicks it if teed feed Is 19 high comani ed to the prices of eggs during the hatching season the present food feed prices are arc quite a bit higher and seem likely to stay that va way for some time dine lie he estimated estin economists of the U S department part ment of agriculture Agil culture predict that farmers will vill follow through nn the earh plans to buy fewer chicks rf if so laying flocks in this cour countr itry will be nearly the same size the first of 1948 as the first of this year 5 ear ier however feed while high Is is as scarce as it was vas it a year ago ERBS eggs are still cheap compared compiled comp ired to meat an and tile the U S people will continue to use eggs it at a great rite rate dr predicted cled nut but late in the fall when beet beef gets more plentiful the use ot of eggs may drop more than usual at that time of the year ear turkey growers will hill also raise less boults this year oar than last both in utah and the rest of tile the nation dr ariso li knecht sald for the country as a whole there will probably bo be about 16 per cent less there are several reasons for tills this prices on turkeys went nent down sharply late in 1946 cold storage supplies ot of turkeys have hae been about four times above however Hoe cr turkeys are now moving out of cold storage at a satisfactory rate according to the college extension because growers have hac fewer fever turkeys on farms there will bo be somewhat less turkey meat this spring and summer than there was as a year ago it if the growers carry out their plans to buy fewer boults people in the united states will eat about halt a pound less turkey meat per person than in 1947 than they lie ate last year |