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Poultry Progress: Our Egg Marketing Job, F. E. Mussehl, H. C. Filley
Poultry Progress: Our Egg Marketing Job, F. E. Mussehl, H. C. Filley
Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Circulars
Eggs are one of the products which Nebraska farm families exchange for the necessities and comforts of life. Although values are measured in dollars and cents, the interest of the producers centers in the amount of useful goods and services that the eggs will buy rather than in the price per dozen or per case. Farmers are interested in a fair exchange value because they wish better homes, better schools, better churches, and better communities in general. In the typical Nebraska community, not only farmers but physicians, merchants, mechanics and school teachers are dependent for their income, either directly or …
Why Some Hens Lay More Eggs Than Others, H. E. Alder
Why Some Hens Lay More Eggs Than Others, H. E. Alder
Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Circulars
The 1929 report of the Storrs Egg Laying Contest, which has been conducted at Storrs, Connecticut, twenty-one years, shows that the best pen of ten hens entered laid 2,802 eggs, and the poorest pen laid 829 eggs. In the best pen the average egg production per hen was 280, 2 eggs as compared with 82.9 eggs per bird in the poorest pen. Why did the one pen lay so many eggs, and the other so few? This prompts us to try to find out what factors are responsible for the number of eggs a hen lays in the course of …
Turkey Production, F. E. Mussehl
Turkey Production, F. E. Mussehl
Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Circulars
Whatever problems turkey production presents, lack of demand for roast turkey is not at this time one of them. Turkeys rate so high in popular esteem that very rarely indeed do prices fall below that of dressed chickens and usually the best grades are 12 to 15 cents per pound higher during the holiday season. The world of commerce has become quite complex but the consuming public still has one clear way of speaking to producers. In the language of the dollar we are apparently being asked to raise more turkeys.
Better Rations - More Eggs, F. E. Mussehl
Better Rations - More Eggs, F. E. Mussehl
Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Circulars
Well-bred and well-fed hens are conceded to be economical producers of a very wholesome food product, eggs, but our hens are not miracle workers and they insist on the right kind of raw material for building the egg. Nebraska poultry growers fortunately have all the natural feeds - corn, wheat, oats, barley, and dairy and packing house by-products - readily available at lower cash prices than prevail in most other states, and so our special problem is that of combining them so that eggs may be produced at the lowest cost per dozen.
How To Select Good Layers, F. E. Mussehl
How To Select Good Layers, F. E. Mussehl
Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Circulars
Certain standard methods of selecting good laying hens have been developed as a result of observations made at the laying contests and at other places where trapnesting is being done.
Outline Of Object And Plan Of The Nebraska National Egg Laying Contest, Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station
Outline Of Object And Plan Of The Nebraska National Egg Laying Contest, Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station
Nebraska Agricultural Experiment Station: Historical Circulars
To promote the breeding of high laying strains of standard-bred poultry is the primary purpose of the Nebraska National Egg Laying and Breeding Contest. Data on the cost of egg production and on the problems of poultry breeding will also be secured.