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Show Poultry Outlook Improves For Half Year Because of an increase in the number of young pullets this year, the supply of fresh eggs during the fall and winter months will probably probab-ly be a little larger than last year, but less competition is to 'be expected ex-pected from cold storage holdings, says Carl Frischknecht, extension poultryman of the Utah State Agricultural Agri-cultural college. Present prospects are that feed supplies will not only be ample but that feed prices may be considerably lower than they were last year, he points out. It is expected that during January and February in 1936, egg prices will not vary greatly from the high prices reported during the same months in 1935. Of course, if weather conditions condi-tions should be such that egg production pro-duction is above normal, then the old law of supply and demand will enter into the picture and the price will drop. As a result of the heavy marketing of poultry by farmers in the drouth areas during the last six months of 1934, the receipts of poultry at the principal markets during the first half of this year were the smallest small-est for that period since 1932. Stocks of dressed poultry in cold storage since the first of January of this year have been considerably greater than they were during the same period of 1934. "Briefly, it may be said, that the outlook is favorable for poultry producers pro-ducers at least during the next six to eight months", Mr. Frishcknecht predicts. |