The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1923-03-29
PREM MOORE
ADDRESSED POULTRYNIEN

Prem Moore, the poultry special
list from the university extension d.
vision, addressed the farmers We'd
nerday 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 poultrImen lost interest In
their flocks and devoted their time
to potatoes and head lettuce. When
eggs began to come up during the
winter I had as many as 100 calls
per week asking me what they could
do to bring their hens into imme-
diate production. Poultry houses
were built all over the Boise valley
in January when they should have
been built in the simmer time. Hens
must be kept up the year around.
When the eggs are cheap the good
poultrymen are spending their time
building up their flock for the COM
ing season. ~ they are allowed
to run down 1t takes 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 pro-
ductton and make, money out of
poultry just In proportion to your
degree of efficiency.
Mr.. Barth tells me that eggs are
thirteen cents per dozen In Black
foot. There is some money in eggs
at thirteen cents per dozen. We
know this from the accounts that
have been kept by farmers thruout
the state. Mr.. Ford, at Weiser,
keeps an accurate account of his
entire business. His eggs last year
cost him eight cents per dozen. The
cost of feed was deducted at the
same price it would have cost him
II he had been buying on the market.
One of the big difficulties which
we have In this section Is the fact
that you are producing more than
the local demand can use and not
enough to ship out. You should
produce a quantity large enough to
ship in car load lots or cut your
production to local consumption,
which would not be very large.
In Utah they have a marketing
association and in southern Idaho,
Washington and Oregon
they have marketing associations,
which market the eggs in car load
OTIS. 1t means a great deal to the
at this time when eggs
ire cheap because the eggs are put
ntO storage.
1 want to impress 1t upon your
mind that our big problem here is
he production of eggs in large
Quantities so that they can be
marketed in car load lots.
The poultrymen of this section
AN sell thru the Pacific Poultry as
ISOLATION, but they will have to 60
o them and make arrangements to
10 so, and form local association.
rhe Pacific Poultry association does
lot have any money to send an agent
tut to sign up the farmers. 1 am
lot here to tell you what associa-
ion to link up with. 1t does not
make any difference, but you should
make some arrangements to market
he eggs in this manner
The local merchants are not to
lame for the price of eggs. Mer-
hants are only human and will not
'ay more than they have to and
ften times the quality of eggs you
tut on the market are not worth
cry much. But the low price of
ggs will drive you to do something
or yourselves in the way of seeking
market.
An article will be published soon
n the raising of baby chicks as out
ned by Mr.. Moore.