Lnucnstcr Farming. Saturday. March 21,1970
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lion.dil Ilt'll. Hiumsklc Coun
ts iC.tlil i agent. outlined fiom
tin lomfoit of his home the
benefits of foico molting of
I. inoi s to loiml poultmium .it
tin- I.anr.isioi Faun .mil Home
CiMli'i Tuosd.iN night
Tlu* loot in e w.is s ( -t up b\
phono .uid w.is lopoitod high
]\ successful
Loc.il officials h.iso licon o\o
im the mothod .is .i mo.ms of
ob‘.lining top notch lectin cis
at niinini.il cost
Not omln was the ospoiionco
of lU'll .iv.nl.iblc to loc.il poul
tiNinon but 801 l .ilso benefited
bN being able to keep another
appointment in Califoima aftci
the lecture
Bell foiwelded slides to Lan
caster which weie used in his
piesentation
Ri\ciside Countv is one of
the nation's top poulliy pioduc
ing areas, and a place wheie
extensive use of foice molting
is being conducted
Essentially, foice molting is
a process of taking a pullet off
feed and water to stop egg pro
duction It is usually used
when pi eduction is tapeung off
and can be raised later by giv
ing the bud a lest and chang
ing the egg cycle
Bell emphasized that no one
pei son can tell an egg pioducer
whether foice molting will be
piofitable foi him He did give
guidelines
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Lecture Is Success
Knst, when the pi ice of a eggs is minimal, the piooess
pullet is between $l5O and might not be best
$175. the egg piodnoor should ]iii*h feed costs also should
consider using the piooess. j )C consideiecl, he said, because
weighing the achantages against mo Hcd birds arc not as efficient
now pullet pin chases feeders as pullets.
Second, if the puce of ev Other factois to consider, he
tia l.ngo and jumbo eggs is said, aic dealer acceptance of
high, foice molting will produce eggs from molted birds, the
l.ngci eggs If the price differ- time of year, how well the pio
once for medium and the large ducor keeps his house restock-
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Preventive Medicine
Merck Chemical Division has tery operated or AC units pro
announced that the Food and viding effective 24-hour control
Drug Administration has ap- for up to 34 days of insects,
proved “Amprol” as a life cycle bacteria and odors in 6,000 cubic
coccidiostat for laying hens feet of space thi ough automated
This approval allows “Amprol” dispensing aerosols
to be used continuously in feed
thioughout the full life span of A ,
the buds and egg produceis A Lancoster Farming
need no longer wait until cocci- . *. n - UnL
diosis infects and damages the Classified Ad Can Help
buds before taking action
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The standard practice in Cali
fornia. he said, is to keep the
moiled buds off feed for 10
days, but place no resit iction on
water.
Bell cited statistics showing
the number of California poul
trymen turning to foice molt
ing has been mci casing It is
particularly prevalent, he said,
on the larger egg fnnns of 50,-
000 biids or more.
Also on the program was Di
Floyd Hicks, who spoke on ven
tilation, and Kemit Birth, who
outlined the economics of force
molting
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Consumers Warned Of
Swimming Pool Ads
Attorney General William C.
Sennelt today warned Pennsyl
vania consumers against bait
and switch advertising of back
> ai d swimming pools.
Sennetl noted that ads present
ly aie being placed m newspa
peis thioughout the Common
wealth foi back-yard swimming
pools for puces as low as $595
to 5795
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mower attachment and the