Smyrna times., 1942-01-01
FARM ROUTINE
FOR POULTRY
Hens and BOOSTERS to Go on a
Health Farm Routine
Next Year
PLAY IMPORTANT PART

The chicks, grandehleks anu
great grandchicks of Delaware1s
II ,467 900 hens and ROSTERS OF
1910 are going on a health farm
routine next year. They'll get VI
tamins, sunlamps, "activated' feeds,
codliver extract and practically
everything but castor oil. They've
got a job to do for a nation at war.
Some of them have to grow big ana
tender and a 1t of them will have
TO plump out eggs on production
line basis-11 100000 dozens OF
them in 1912. That's the task the
government has assigned Delaware
hens with the pointed suggestion
they sit down and go to work. AT
the same time, Delaware poultry
men are being urged to increase
this years flock of 12,843,O broil-
ers, fryers, roasters and fowl to
1864 900 birds next year. With
America at war the nations f1ocks
will play an important part in furn-
ishing the American diet with pro-
tective foods. The fiocks will give
as we'll as get-the essential VI
tamins, and other nutrients that
are important to the health OF a
nation at war. And consumption
will keep pace with production if
the nutritionists achieve what they
have set out to do. The United
States Department of Agriculture
wants the American hen to lay A.
OOO,000,OO0 dozens of eggs next
wear and the guardians of public
health want mericans to eat at
least 35 per cent more eggs for the
sake of health and working effic-
iency.
Enlisted in both campaigns are
the retailers and distributors OF
food who are placing more and
more educational emphasis on vita
min-rich protective and dlet-pai-
ancing foods. More emphasis, too,
is being placed on the wider use OF
more efficient methods of fool dis
tribution so that more of these
foods will be available to more peo-
pie. If savings resulting from "a
wider use of more efficient meth
ods of distribution" could be
achieved for the entire Delaware
poultry industry, says report
from Howard G. Pierce, poultry
and egg expert for the A & P Tea
Company, it would be possible tc
save S788,OOO annually for the pro-
ducers and consumers of Delaware
grown poulksy7lA Gegt ST. Of distrlnul.
tion ate ZIP sa,e3S,ooo of the SO,
s46,oOUretail value of Delaware
grown chickens and turkeys il
w,f940, with farmers cash incom,
from these same birds only $5,908,
000 the report said. Department
of Agriculture figures showed that
on an average, producers got bu
55 cents of the consumer poultr,
dollar marketing through all chan
nels. On the other hand MI
Pierce's report showed tina
through elimination of multiple
handling costs the A & P was abb,
to reduce this price spread by eigh
cents, making possible returns t,
the producer an average of 63 cent
of the retail poultry dollar.
I'm the present emergency" h
concluded, more than ever befor
there is need for wider use of eff
ficiency in getting food from tn
farm to tables of America and he
allie"
Millions and millions of dozens o
eggs will be shipped to Britain il
1912, and to meet wartime demant
for strengthening foods, poultry
men are utilizing all means to in
crease the efficiency of their f1ocks
Scientists have developed Vita
min D bearing feed concentrates
Sunlamps are installed in man,
feeding houses to provide the chick
ems with the sunshine vitamin
Birds are being bred for meat AM