The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1923-03-30
PREM MOORE MAKES ADDRESS
TO P0ULTRYMEN
Discussed Need OF Marketing ASso-
citation for Poultry Products

Mr.. Prem Moore, the poultry spec
ialist from the University Extension
Division, addressed the farmers We'd
nesday afternoon on Poultry Hus-
bandry. Mr.. Moore's address was, in
part, as follows:
We are now in a period which
comes every twelve months in the
poultry industry, the period of cheap
| eggs. When eggs get cheap people
begin to lose interest in their flock.
Last year the price of eggs went
down very low in the Boise valley.
Many of the poultrymen lost interest
in their flocks and devoted their time
to potatoes and head lettuce. When
eggs began to come up during the
winter l had as many as 100 calls per
week asking me what they could do
to bring their hens into immediate
production. Poultry houses were
built all over the Boise valley in
January when they should have been
built in the summer time. Hens must
be kept up the year round. When the
eggs are cheap, the good poultrymen
are spending their time building up
their flock for the coming season. If
they are allowed to run down it takes
a long time to bring them back to
condition and by the time they are
brought into production the price has
dropped again and there is no money |
made. You can decrease your cost of |
production and make money out of |
poultry just in proportion to your de-
gree of proficiency
Mr.. Barth tells me that eggs are l3 !
cents per dozen in Blackfoot. There
is some money in eggs at 13 cents per
dozen. We know this from the ac-
counts that have been kept by farmers
the state. Mr.. Ford, at
Weiser, keeps an accurate account of
his entire business. His eggs last
year cost him cents per dozen. The
cost of feed was deducted at the same
price it would have cost him if he mad
1een buying on the market.
One of the big difficulties which we
lave in this section is the fact that
you are producing more than the 10
.al demand can use and not enough
O ship out You should either pro-
luce a quantity large enough to ship
n car load lots or cut your produc-
ion to local consumption, which
yould not be very large.
In Utah they have a marketing as
ociation and in Southern Idaho, Cal @
ornia, Washington and Oregon they II
ave marketing associations which S
larket the eggs in car load lots. 1t e
eans a great deal to the poultryman "
this time when eggs are cheap be- u
iuse the eggs are put into storage. II
I want to impress it upon your mind Ia
lat our big problem here is the pro- Il
lotion of eggs in large quantities so W
at they can be marketed in car load II
ts VI
The poultrymen of this section can W
IL through the Pacific Poultry Asso- es
alton but will have to go to them re
i'd make arrangements to do so, and ye
rm a local association. The Pacific III
,ultry Association does not have any 81
oney to send an agent out to sign up ID
e farmers. | am not here to tell IL
IL what association to link up with. III
does not make any difference, but Be
u should make some arrangements &c
market the eggs in this manner.
The local merchants are not TO er
ame for the price of eggs. Merchants
e only human and will not pay
,re than they have to and often tol
les the quality of eggs you put on I'M
, market are not worth very much. SCI
t the low price of eggs will drive I'M
= ~ do son,etbinp for Yourselves fan
the way of seeking market.
An article will be published soon L.
the raising of baby chicks as out
ed by Mr.. Moore.