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Show Foaltryman Advises Adoption of Program to Raise Production "Poultry and egg producers are in the midst of one of the greatest great-est periods of expansion and profitable production that has ever characterized the poultry industry in-dustry of this state," declares Carl Frischknecht, poultryman of the Utah extension service. During a two-year period, since the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the industry has been operated for the most part upon a planned and controlled economy basis, he states, with substantial increases in production produc-tion called tor &ri?.!J.atty-4?vd or- """""" ct-eded each year. In addition to being characterized by substantial sub-stantial increases in production, there has been a period of favorable favor-able feed-egg and feed-meat for poultrymen. Professor Frischknecht mentions men-tions the fact that large quantities quan-tities of poultry and eggs are no longer imported, and that the nation na-tion has become a large exporting export-ing nation for these products. Also, competition and competitive, competi-tive, activities in the market have disappeared, and the fact that poultry and eggs have not been rationed has brought a material increase in consumption of these products. f The specialist cites several difficulties dif-ficulties which are, however, a-rising a-rising in the poultry world. These include a droD in indeDendenee and resourcefulness of poultry-men, poultry-men, new feeding problems and practices, development of black markets, rise of inexperienced growers, and an indication of less attention paid to advice and experiments of specialists. In order to combat such condi tions, Professor Frischknecht advises ad-vises a program for the extension exten-sion service in 1944 to be centered cen-tered around stabilization; and which will enable poultrymen to carry on in peace as well as in wartime. Phases of work which :e particularly recommends in this outline are (1 expansion of chicken and turkey breeding and hatching industries of the state; (2) better distribution and rise of available feeds; (3) more attention at-tention given to approved management man-agement practices; (4) conservation conserva-tion of poultry and poultry products; prod-ucts; and (5) 4-H poultry club work. He also places an estimate on production for both 1943 and 1944. He figures that 1943 will see 27,GG7,000 dozen eggs produced; 2,483,000 hens .aak "'illetj, . on - January 1, 1944; 4,031,000 chickens chick-ens to be raised; and 1,341,000 turlyys. The new year should bring 31,000,000 dozen eggs produced; prod-uced; 2,930,000 liens and pullets; -1,600,000 chickens; and 1,234,000 turkeys, he estimates. |