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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1960)
EGG PRODUCERS I ARE MECHANIZING! **You can’t do a good job of producing eggs without spend ing time in the laying house . . . but some jobs just take too long,” say many Midwest poultrymen. By using bulk feed, me chanical feeding systems, simplified egg handling methods and new litter removal ideas in cleaning the house these egg men can handle more birds and give closer attention to correcting management problems before they get started. Nearly every egg producer in the country can afford to switch from bagged feed to bulk. Not only will it save a lot of back ache but is also cheaper than feed in bags. Several egg producers have found that bulk feed can save them up to $25 a year per 100 hens. At that rate it doesn't take long to pay for a bulk tank. In the installation shown above, the feed is moved by auger into the laying house where it is dropped into the hopper of a mechanical feeder. Even If you're feeding by hand, bulk feed has a place in your operation. An automatic egg collecting belt is being used by the owner of this cage house to help improve hit labor efficiency. With an egg room at the end of the laying house you can run the collecting belt right through the egg room wall so the eggs will be right where you can take over the cleaning operation and get the eggs into the cooler immediately. Such collecting belts are also being installed in houses using a regular floor management system. New way to keep egg production up Laying Cycle Management Program helps you eliminate production-robbing problems and fight the setbacks they cause Thilor the program to your own condi tions .. your own birds ... your own management tools. The whole program is keyed to fight ing egg-robbing stress conditions: Stress keeps birds from their full production potential ... it causes egg slumps and early mortality. It can result in culls or death. Every flock is subjected to stress at some time. This new program helps you pin point the stresses in your operation to learn why-and how- you’re losing eggs. And it utilizes Terramycin* to help fight slumps and setbacks following stress. Tferramycin used continuously at low levels in the feed helps hens lay more eggs on less feed per dozen. Tferramycin at high levels in the feed, when severe stresses attack, helps fight stress-caused setbacks from those dis ease organisms which cause Blue Comb, CRD and other problems. Send for FREE booklet and learn how to stress-rate your own flock Complete details are in the free booklet. Develop a stress pattern for your flock and tailor your management program to get the best production during each per iod of the laying cycle. Chaa. Pflxer A Co.. Inc. Agricultural Sale* Division _ . . . 800 Second Avenue Science for the world* New York 17. New York well-being Gentlemen: Send me your booklet on the Laying Cycle Management Program ... The Strem-Rating Way to Extra Production Nano___ Addraau____ City___State__ Sixe of laying flock___ •Hr*Mtvrrrt tradrmark lor oxytetraryclim