The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1919-10-17
WEEKLY NEWS NOTES
(By County Agent)
Preliminary Report on Chicken
Culling Campaign

The following is some brief figures
on the results secured by our chicken
culling campaign. Our reports are
just beginning to come in so that this
report does not begin to cover the re-
suits we believe have been secured.
At each demonstration the County
Agent handed out blank reports to all
people who said that they were plan
ming to Gull their own fiocks after
learning how the work was done at
the demonstration. More than $50
blanks were handed out. These blanks
were to be kept until after the flock
had been culled and sufficient time had
elapsed to determine whether there
had been any loss in egg production
by culling the flock. Twelve reports
have reached the office up to date,
showing 500 hens to have been culled
and 308 taken out and in only one case
was there any decrease in egg pro-
duction. This one man stated that he
had culled his flock very closely, leav-
ing only his very best layers and as
a result of this culling, his egg pro-
duction had decreased some. The
other eleven reports stated that there
had been no decrease at all after Gull
ing their flocks. At the present pric-
es of feed, it will cost approximately
15c a month to feed a hen. These 308
hens which have been reported culled
out would have remained idle from
October to the last of February. By
figuring this out, you will see that
these twelve people have saved 5000
by culling out their non-producing
hens.
We feel that we shall have some
very interesting figures to show as
soon as all of our reports are in. We
wish that all the people who have
culled their focks and now know the
results, would mail their reports in
promptly.
Statistical Summary of the County
Agents Activities During September
Upon summing up the weekly rec
ords of our work, we find that during
the month of September, we have had
10 business calls, wrote LAG letters,
made Is farm visits, held Is meetings
Is articles for the newspapers and
travelled 1915 miles on official bust
ness. September has been one of our
busiest months this year.
Pennington Livestock Shipping As
ISOLATION Makes Second Shipment
On Monday of this week, the Farm
ington Livestock Shipping Associa-
ton made its second shipment of
three cars of stock. One straight car
of cattle and two mixed cars of cat
tie, hogs and sheep, made up the
One of these cars was load
ed at Knob Lick and the other two at
DeLassus. Jesse Vandergriff and j.
R. Webb, we understand, were the
consignees of the stock loaded at Knob
Lick. The following men furnished
the two cars loaded at DeLassus: II.
E. Rhodes, VIM. London, Sam Miller,
Joe Wigger, John Williams, T. M.
Smith, E. F. Doss, Clarence Cunning
ham, Jim Cunningham, H. F. Nolt-
Kemper, ]. B. Laws, C. B. Denman,
Maurice Highley, G. Y. Counts, c. A.
Doubet, w. ]. Bruet, P. A. Huffer and
Harry Highley.
Bonnie Terre Organizes Poultry Asso-
citation
A number of Bonnie Terre poultry |
men met Monday night and organized |
a local Poultry Association with the
intention of later affiliating with the
State Association. They are planning
to hold poultry show some time dur
ing January. We are glad to see this |
active interest among our poultrymen. |