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Show "Henocracy" Plan Not Needed in Illinois Technocracy, or perhaps it might better be termed "henocracy," has appeared in the poultry industry, but the owners of Illinois' 200,000 flocks need not resort to it in order or-der to get benefits, says H. H. Alp, poultry extension specialist of the college of agriculture, University of Illinois. All they need do is follow fol-low the Illinois poultry sanitation plan as outlined and advocated by the college, he said. "Henocracy" is Alp's name for the new system under which hens are kept in individual metal coops assembled in battery form. In Miami, Mi-ami, Fla., for Instance, 60,000 laying hens were placed in batteries in a 500-room hotel. The concentration of so many birds in one building is made possible through the use of batteries equipped with labor-saving devices for cleaning the equipment and caring for the birds. The hen Is even deprived of an opportunity to admire her egg, for as soon as It is laid, it rolls into a trough to be gathered. The practical lesson in this for flock owners is the strict sanitary conditions under which the hens are kept, Alp pointed out. Much the same benefits which this close confinement con-finement gives In the form of disease and parasite control can be obtained by Illinois flock owners through following fol-lowing the college's poultry sanitation sanita-tion plan, he said. |