The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-03

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County Men to
Join Group
BY WILLIAM MURPHY
County Agricultural Agent
oMany Macomb County poul-
trymen are planning to attend
the Michigan Poultry Tour TO
be held on Tuesday and Wednes-
day, July IS and Is. This tour
will start ut the Larro Research
Farm, l0it Miles and North
western highway. northwest of
Detroit, at $50 am. on the 18th.
This Is one of the largest pri-
vately owned experimental
farms In the United States. The
poultry department comprises
Of SO buildings on 50 acres Of
land, with chick batteries having
q capacity of $500 birds, laying
cages, laying houses, breeding
pens and turkey plant capacity
of 300 turkeys.
Other places to be visited that
day are Bryce Evans at Linden,
wholesale egg and poultry buy
er, one block north and n block
east Of stop light in Linden,
where they have q mechanical
poultry picker. which removes
feathers by machinery, and .
satisfactory homemade egg cool
er. r. b. Little Farm at Byron,
one mile west Of stop light In
Byron - capacity 5000 layers;
one end of bar remodelled into
laying house g stories); in
sulated laying house-140x "a e
stories); 81 acres in farm, so
acres of which Is in corn for
grain. Carruthers Farm. Ban
croft, 1000 acre farm (Michisan's
largest poultry farm) capacity
laying houses ZOO birds, re-
modelling two barns at the
present time which will accom-
5000 more; operate q
federal-state egg grading station
and q hatchery of $4,000 egg ca
pacity; and cans all hens no
longer profitable as layers. Farm
of Harry Burns. Millington, lay
ing capacity 5000 layers and
1000 winter broilers; laminated
rafter brooder house; different
types of houses (some single
decked have been remodelled
into double decked houses); and
an egg room for cooling eggs.
At $50 on the Harry Burns
Farm. Millington, S GU h er n
Style Chicken Barbecue at so
cents per person. Program i'm
mediately following will feature
Professor c. G.. Card. Michigan
State College, IA. j.. Hannah,
President Michigan Allied Poul-
try Industries; and Poultry
Magic by A. Liberacki.
Wednesday, July Is, the tour
will begin at $50 at the Michi-
gan Quality Egg Company.
Unionville, 3 miles west and
IL miles north of Caro-. This Is .
federal-state egg grading station
about 500 cases of eggs
per week. All eggs bought from
farmers on grade and sold In the
same way.
The tour will then proceed to
the farm of Rudolph Shem,
Route one, Frankenmuth. Mrs.
Shem keeps a flock of 100 sc.
w. Leghorn hens as one Of the
farm activities. She has proved
that poultry is q profit enter
prise on their farm when prop
erly managed. Next, to the farm
Of Art Weiss, Route seven, Sagi-
nav. where an 81-year-old barn,
Is well as a hog house have been
remodelled into laying houses.
This farm has been in the family
Tor three generations. The grand
tather who built the barn re-
members when Saginaw had
only IL houses. Laying capacity
$50 hens, 900 pullets on range
two range shelters. Then on to
Charles Cuttle's farm, Standish
west edge of town e blocks
west of US-23). Here will be
'een 1900 pullets on range--has
! growing range hear the back
If his farm and the beet workers
living nearby watch out for the
'afety of the growing pullets-
aging capacity 800 birds. The
our will come to q close 1t the
arm Of +. G. Ousterhout, Ster-
ing, having $4,000 Matching ca
,acity; laying capacity Of 1000
birds with IL pens for special
natings; and 100 pullets on
Ange Of which 400 are wing
,anded, pedigreed pullets.
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