Show FA FARM it w TOPICS rh 1 POULTRY OUTLOOK FOUND FAVORABLE government bureau predicts higher egg prices S supplied u p p 1 t e d b by y the united santes department 0 t A agriculture g r service somewhat higher prices of 0 eggs next year as compared with this year are foreseen by the bureau of agricultural economics in a review of the poultry and egg situation this conclusion is drawn from the smaller number of 0 layers which will be in farm flocks next year and the expectation that the rate of e egg ga production will be somewhat lower lowe jr the larger supply of teed feed this year is expected to have a material effect on the poultry s situation i T the h c rf tu atour total production 0 of t the h four f feed ee d grains corn oats barley and grain sorghum this fall will be the largest since 1932 and the wheat supply for poultry feeding will be larger than in recent years with the number of grain eating animals at a low point there will be unusually ample supplies of grain for poultry especially in some of the corn belt states in other words the bureau says the feed situation next spring will be much more favorable to producers than in 1937 largely as a result of the ample feed supply it is expected that the hatch of chicks next spring will be larger than the small hatch this year this leads to the conclusion that while poultry supplies will be smaller in the first half they will be larger in the last half of 1938 1933 than in the corresponding periods of 1937 higher prices of chickens are looked for in early 1938 whereas lower prices may be the rule a year from now stocks of eggs in cold storage which will affect egg prices next year are likely to be much less than they were in 1937 because of smaller while the production production of fall and winter vinter broilers this year is expected to be heavy the price is not likely to be depressed correspondingly spon because th the general meat supply is smaller turkey production this year is estimated at 10 per cent less than it was in 1936 with prices expected to be higher than they were last year and possibly higher than in 1935 the hatch and production of turkeys in 1933 probably will be increased over this year |