The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1936-07-02
3 Profitable
Meetings On
CullingHens
1923 Brooder Hens Culled from
Flocks At Special Meet
ings Last Week
GROUPS MET AT HOMES
Under Supervision of Miss
Cora Cooke, Extension
Poultry Specialist
GROUPS MET AT HOMES

One hundred and twenty-three
brooder hens were culled out at
the cullipg demonstrations for To-
cal leaders in the poultry project
held last week under the super
vision Of Miss Cora Cooke, Exten-
sion poultry Specialist, of the Uni
versity Of Minnesota. The groups
met at the homes Of Mrs. John
Steman, st. Cloud, Mrs. Floian
Eischen, Eden Valley, Mrs. Ben
Van Lent, Brooten and Mrs. John
Ceynar, Sank Centre.
The meetings, arranged for by
County Home Agent, Moan Ander-
SON were attended by sixty lead
ers. This was the fifth in the SER
les of five meetings for project
leaders. During the next two weeks,
leaders will conduct meetings in
their own communities at each of
which a flock will be culled, the
breeders banded and the culls
separated from the rest for imme-
date sale. Each group member will
have an opportunity to handle sew
eral birds so as to learn how to
Gull the nome flock.
Leaders were interested to OBJ
serve the differences between in
dlvidual hens and quickly become
proficient in determining certain
outstanding marks Of good or poor
production. 1t was shown that, to
be a good layer a hen must have
the disposition to lay and, in addi-
ton good size, vigor and health.
According to Miss Cooke, early
nolters make low yearly records,
while hens that mott late in the
fall usually pile up good records.
She stressed, however, that care
and feeding are important factors
in delaying the mott and that even
a good hen will mott early If her
ration is restricted or poorly bal
anced. Early culling is a desirable
practice. The good layers that sur
vive the culling will pay well for a
balanced ration fed regularly
throughout the summer.
Following the meetings conduct
ed by local leaders, an effort will
be made to see that every group
members flock is culled by some
specified date, decided upon at the
local group meeting. 1t is expected
that more than one-third of the
10000 hens now on these farms will
be disposed of as poor producers.
Some achievements of groups to
date are as follows:
One hundred forty-six hen hous-
es have been improved by insulat-
ing the walls or roof with flax
straw or saw dust, at least 185 nom
waste feeders were built, 5 families
added new drinking fountains, al
falfa racks or dropping boards. Folk
started to feed mash containing
COG liver oil end SIT poultry fam
lilies have received help by the $50
femilies enrolled in the project.
This report was sent in by the
Luxembourg township leaders. Mrs.
Alphonse Phillip and Mrs. Frank
Enderle of Watkins: OF the 1S
poultry family project members, 16
have insulated their hen house
walls or roof, 16 feeders were built,
II are feeding mash and I'll neigh
bors had been helped.
Preliminary plans were made for
the East and West County Poultry
towns to be held the first part Of
October to which the public Is in
vited Mrs. r. r. Swee, Kimball.
Mrs. Ross Busse, Mr.. Joe Kinkel
st. Cloud, Mrs. Alphonse Phillips,
Watkins, and Mrs. Ray Stephen,
Paynesville were elected to serve
on the East County committee. Mrs
Gilbert Gilbertson, Mrs. P. F. Mil
Ter, Brooten, Mrs. F. J. Tank and
Mrs. Art Domke, Sank Centre
make up the West County Com
mittee. These committees will plan
the tours assisted by the County
Home Agent.