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Show Poultry and Egg Outlook Favors Producer Profits A more favorable situation is in sight for poultrymen after the first of the year. It was pointed out this week by Carl Frischknecht, Extension Exten-sion Poultryman, on the basis of the October poultry and egg situation report of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. Ample supplies of feed grains, including in-cluding wheat for poultry feeding, and possibly higher egg prices as compared with those this year are in prospect. Mr. Frischknecht said that the more favorable feed situation as affecting af-fecting poultrymen Is likely to result in a larger hatch in 1938 compared with 1937, but that the supply of poultry in the first half of next year will probably be less than in the corresponding cor-responding period this year. Increased production of fall and winter broilers this year was indicated indi-cated by the Bureau's report, but Mr. Frischknecht quoted the report as saying that "the price is not likely to be depressed to a corresponding extent, in view of the generally reduced re-duced meat supply." Mr. Frischknecht reported that the consumption of poultry in the first half of 1937 was much larger than in the corresponding period of 1936, as indicated by the exceptionally exception-ally large out-of-storage movement, |