The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1925-08-13

getting all he can normally expect.
Fifteen years of study of poultry
data by Prof. A. G. Phillips has con-
WINGED him that this figure is as near
normal egg production as can be ar
rived at at this time, he told his pu-
pills of the Radio Farm School of the
Blue Valley Creamery Institute.
! Ordinarily September is the lowest
month in point of egg production and
April the highest, said Prof. Phillips
who is one of the leading poultry ex-
perts in America. The following
daily egg production he considers
normal production from a flock of
100 pullets for each of the twelve
months: October, 20; November, 40;
December, 30; January, 35; Febru-
airy, As; March, 55; April, 65; May,
so; June, so; July, 40; August, 25;
and September, 15.
And here is his explanation of the
figures:
"Pullets seldom lay every day and
all pullets do not lay at the same time
except possibly in the spring. Pullets
| that do not lay do not all lay on the
same day. In October many pullets
will not commence laying on the first
of the month but the number will in
crease as the month goes by. We con
slider 20 eggs day the normal aver.
age to expect from this flock in Octo-
Der. November is usually a comfor-
table month and the production will
be doubled and 40 eggs per day pro-
cured for that month. Iu December
| hoH
which causes material cut in pro-
duction. Therefore 80 eggs per day
is considered the normal figure. jan
uary average around 35 eggs a day,
and this should jump to As in Febru-
airy because the approaching spring
generally results in the pullets eat
ing more and therefore increasing
production.
"April is the high month of produc-
ton for pullets under an artificial
lighting schedule. In March the
birds will endeavor to reach this peak
by producing SIS eggs a day. For
April we estimate IS eggs a day. At
ter the peak is reached production
will drop off and May is estimated
to bring only so eggs a day. The
| weather is warmer in June and the
birds cut their production still fur
Their, bringing the figure down to so
eggs a day. Because of the July
weather and the decrease in the n
tural food supply only 40 eggs a day
is considered fair estimate for this
month. August will produce 25 eggs
day because the number of layers is
thinning out. Only the real 200-egg
layers are on the job in September
and Is eggs day is reasonable ex-
pectation.
Minnesota Dairyman's Dollar Now
Buys More-The Minnesota farmers
| dollar from the sale of butter, eggs
and chickens is now worth dollar
and five cents in merchandise, &C
cording to computations of the Blue
Valley Creamery Institute, which
finds that the combined purchasing
power of these three farm products is
now about four year pre-war level
for the same month.
Last year and for several years af-
ter the war when the Minnesota farm
er took a dollar received in payment
| for farm products to the store to buy
, manufactured commodities, he found
his dolla. would buy only sixty, seven
ty or eighty cents worth of goods
compared to the dollars worth it
would buy in pre-war days. Prices
| of Minnesota farm products have now
| advanced to point where today
dollars worth of butter, eggs and
chickens not only brings the farmer
hundred cents worth of needed ar
| ticles but even five cents more than
the dollar he received for these partic-
ular products before the war. It is
| well to bear in mind, say the Insti-
tute experts, that it is not the num-
Der of dollars the. farmer receives
for his butter, eggs, or poultry but
what these dollars will buy in shoe/,
shingles, suits, salt, seed or silos that
| count.
Scout Registration Trebles in Three
Observation-Disclosures upon the Uni
versity's short course in forestry,
woodcraft, and scouting, now being
held at the summer station of the di-
vision of forestry, Itasca park, has
trebled in the last three years-from
16 in 1922, 32 in 1923, "A in 1924,
to approximately SO in 1925. This is
a course for boy scout leaders and
prospective leaders. Instruction is
given by university men in wood
croft, including studies of trees,
plants, rope work, mapping, etc. Off
Gals, representing the Boy Scouts of
| America, have charge of the entire
technical field of scouting for scouts,
from the tenderfoot to the first-class,
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