Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Poultry and Egg Situation: May, 1948
Reports from.a small sample of hatcheries show that output of turkey poults is running about 20 percent below last year. The main reason for the sharp cutback is that feed prices in i9h? Were very high in relation to turkey prices. While turkey prices averaged about the same in 19h? As in l9h6, feed prices were up about 20 percent. The turkey-feed price ratio during 19h? Was the lowesp in a decade.
The small number of breeder hens on farms will limit turkey output this year. On January 1, there were million breeder hens on farms, 30 percent less than on January 1, 19h7, and the fewest since 1937 when records were first kept. To keep turkey production from.dropping more than 18 percent, farmers must raise at least 10 turkeys for every breeder hen on farms January 1, l9h8. This ratio has never been reached on a national basi However, such a ratio is possible because of the improvement in recent years in the hatching of turkey eggs and the extension of the turkey-egg laying season.
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