Show cut out non producers and save cost offered of feed according to the poultry department of the now new york state college of agriculture feed Is about one halt half of the cost of keeping a hen 00 pounds being required per year for or slightly better than average production during the past 11 years the number of eggs egg 3 per hen to pay for her cost of feed has ranged from 48 to 72 per year av ern craning ing ca in n 1030 0 it required requite d 69 eggs per hen bell annually to pay her feed costs about ten dozen are required per bird to pay the entire cost on this basis you can basily estimate what your our own fluck flock Is doing As with the dairy so with the poultry this is the year to weed out the non producers mercilessly Fortun fortunately the ratio between betge en feed and eggs Is relatively good so that it if you do cull closely an and then exercise more than asua usua usual I 1 care your poultry business may come through fairly well luring during the nest year american agriculturist |