Show healthy chick plan pays bigger profits sanitary feed hoppers are among first essentials prepared by the united states department of 0 agriculture service poultry growers who follow the grow healthy chicks program advocated by state and federal author atles not only have more eggs in the basket at the end of the year but they have more money in the bank 11 II L shrader extension poultry man of the united states department of agriculture cites records kept in missouri to prove this claim flocks raised according to the five rules of the healthy chicks program averaged eggs per hen with nn an income over feed cost of per hen while flocks raised under ordinary methods produced only eggs per hen with an income of the difference in favor of the grow healthy chicks plan was 18 eggs and 80 cents net income per bird the ort first rule Is to use clean eggs w which billeb means those from locks flocks which are free from bacillary white diarrhea the next rule Is to use clean brooder houses clean feed the third requisite calls attention to the need of sanitary feed hoppers clean ground to the poultry men Is ground on which no poultry manure has been beeD scattered nor any poultry allowed to range the previous year the final ruled rule Is to separate cockerels cockerell cocker els and pullets so that special care can be given the pullets |