Poultry culture sanitation and hygiene . e and checks or dents, and the fourthclass are those that are spoiled and are thrown into a garbagecan. At this time number one cold-storage eggs were selling MARKETING EGGS 467 for thirty-three cents a dozen on the retail market and numbertwo for twenty-eight cents, while checks, or those found brokenbut not leaking, and yet in candhng showed the contents to befit for food, sold for twenty-three cents. Why differentgrades? It must be because of improper handling beforebeing placed in cold storage else they would have all been ofone grade. If the follow
Poultry culture sanitation and hygiene . e and checks or dents, and the fourthclass are those that are spoiled and are thrown into a garbagecan. At this time number one cold-storage eggs were selling MARKETING EGGS 467 for thirty-three cents a dozen on the retail market and numbertwo for twenty-eight cents, while checks, or those found brokenbut not leaking, and yet in candhng showed the contents to befit for food, sold for twenty-three cents. Why differentgrades? It must be because of improper handling beforebeing placed in cold storage else they would have all been ofone grade. If the following rules were carried out by the differentparties handhng the eggs from the hen to the consumer, therewould be a greater part of the 17 per cent, loss saved, whichpercentage runs into an economic saving of millions of dollarsa year in the United States alone. The farmer should keep only pure-bred stock of the gen-eral purpose breeds, as the Rocks, Wyandottes, Reds or Orping-tons, unless he intends to enter the commercial egg-production. |/0^^^^st;;Qijaiilyyew^^ Fig. 192.—The proper way to pack and deliver eggs. These cartons canbe bought on the market very cheaply, about one-half of a cent a piece. field, in which case the Mediterraneans, as White Leghorn orMinorca, may give better results. He should not keep stuntedbirds in his flock, or breed from birds that have gone throughserious illness. Strength and vigor in the birds must be keptin mind in making selections in egg as well as for otherproduction. The house must be kept clean, the birds free from vermin,and only good clean food given. Pullets for early laying should be hatched early. For theheavy breeds February and March, and for the smaller breedsthe last week in March or first week in April. Poultry on thefarin must be given the care and attention it deserves, not log- 468 POULTRY CUXTUHB ing sight of the fact that the hen aids the cow in keeping thetable suppHed. All male birds should be removed from the flock as s
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