Pleasant Grove Review | 1938-02-18 | Page 3 | Farm Notes

Farm Notes There are usually 10 eggs to a pound. Turkeys have been known as guinea hens and cocks of India. Flour makes up 57 per cent of the weight of the average loaf of bread. "Large" eggs, so labeled, must weigh 24 ounces a dozen, according to law. Poultry experts estimate a pullet eats 25 to 27 pounds of feed before reaching maturity. Agricultural authorities estimate 18,000,000 bushels of apples are destroyed de-stroyed annually in the United States by the codling moth. Only those pullets that are well-grown, well-grown, well-fleshed, well-pigmented, and free from disease are profitable. profit-able. Horses and cows and sheep must rely on their lips to gather grass or grain, and they can take in only a lipful at a time