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ly BRIAN In One at most modern build ings tor laying hens in the area is that of James Johnstone Ala listen who by switching iron gaveational housing to use housing has doubled the number at hens he can keep on per area basis in controlled ea vtronmeot barn His barn is no feet long by as teet long and has two story in it is at modern poultry barn design with heavily insulated tr watts steel sheathed inr ather protection outside Fans provuie forced air ventiisuon In accordance with modern trends windows have been omitted he csuse these permit exceslve heat to escape and create bad condensation problem KEPT IN CAGES The hens high producing light white Dekalbs are keptln continuous string at open wrra rages each 12 by 15 Inches square and running the length oi the building Another string of cages backs onto the first string and two sets ot these backIo brick strings oi cages are install rd one abova the other with space between making up one block of tour strings ol cages as twolttier unit There are live oi thesa our string blocks lllllv ning the length of the building with alleyways between them teediag the hens and not lecting eggs Each cage makes home for three pampered hcns We havent completed the changover to cages in the bot tom storey yet but we have had the top storey converted to group cages since last September giv lo us room or 10000 hens or atfilut double what weused to space said Mrs Johnstono who with abelper finds it steady job grading eggs When we finish downstairs we will have room or 20000 hens nl together Yes this system scents to be working well It cuts the labor oi looking alter the hens by almost half There is lessleed wasted There is no possibility ni the heas crowding into cor ners and suffocating when any or any noise scareathcm And the eggs all roll onto racks er the trontsof the cages are they are easy tocolleet where with the old method we would have to search all over the floors three times day for eggs some hens didnt bothgrto lay in the laying unity FEEDING METHOD the Johnstones teed the hens now by means of propane pro pelted autumallcteed cart which as thayedrfve it along the fronts wanna oi serttarv grors FOR Quiltiouvrisuinv New tor designed To give in tarroer morew new jieytinder diesel engine and clinic NTéRuarroNAL tors mesh is runs Joausroita gathers eggs irom convenient egg melts in mutant two tiers or at the cages augers teed out of two spouts into the two con tinuous Iced troughs in front at the two tiers of cages along each at the cage blocks Water is supplied to the hens automat ically led by Host valve control into continuous trough simflar to the lead troughs although like drinking bowls for cows they find that they must check these frequently to see that the float tloea notjam andcut oif the water or flood over The cagesare sloped iorward so that the eggs laid in the cages roll forward out of the cage into collectin raids where they keepcool and clean and from whichthey can he gathered quickly in zodozen plastic baske carried on col lecting wagon cation is agatndone ntom cally Droppings fall through the wiremage bottoms into steel gutters atoaggwhieh scrapers on cables powered by electric winch systems scrape the litter to the ends of the long strings or cagesangiout thrce hea cages in the John stonos mddern poultry barn with controlled environment he tread seems to be to ward controlled environment buildings and cage housing lor poultry and think we will see this type at windowless building more irequentiy on other live stock farms predicts Mr John stone We are well pleased with it particularly for its laborsav lng features Each bird has inches of space over 15 per cent more than the space suggested grlcultttial specialists Cost reduction is necessary in view otvhigb costs and relative lylow profit margins He ex plains howleed costs nine tons per week for 10000 hens no counts or the major cost of pro Another often overlook isthnt of flock deprem iatlon amounting to some eight cents per dozen of eggs produe ed One year and aboutho doz eggs is about all thatcan be expected out or hen alter which production andquality of eggs begins to drop hence the flock must be replaced every year Eggs produced hythaloha NTERNATIoNsL horsepower aliepuipose trac herE it matters most if has of fully synchronized trans missionsjincludiag revolutionary 12forwardSpeed Agsiomatlcstandard ior heat production and lock haalthtihoto by Baker stone poultry tarm find ready market by customer pick up at the site and in such centres as Barrie Alilstoa Hecton Tot teaham and others including two hospitals ins wonsa Moria United States silver dollar contains at 1961 storage harn $1 to three wealts into ha that the teesl latest Production ces about he usually on the roots 1ba attack ed plants are weakened yields are reduced and they are more suhiect to additional damage by other sotlborne diseases EFFECTIVE lha most attectlve way to com trot nematodes is to fumlgste the and Nomatieides are fumi gants mechlly designed to kill nenutodar Other general pur pose trantgunts are sometimes used at low dosages to kill only nematodes Practically all soil lumlgation is done by custom operators with special equipment and tha IV erage charge to growers at to hacco peach and other suscep tible crozn is $50370 per acre Most nematicides are highly volatile liquids They are intact ed into the soil to depth at to Inches The liquid vapor iscs and the gas must dissolve in the thin tilm oi water sur rounding the soil particles and penetrate the aemptodes beiore they are killed The critical an tors determining tha success of soil fumigation are moisture temperature and soil type These atfect the dillusion of the charm icai to the pests lwa rules ot thumb for the use ot nematlcides are the soil temperature should be at least to degrees andvpreierabb above 50 degrees at the to inch level and t2 the area to be tumigated must be in scedhed condition Ivith regard to tiithand mois The commonly used hemati cldes are toxic to plants Thore iore the chemical must be al towed to escape lrom the soil tore planting This ay take says Mr Burnett Buyers in the stores really go or the well colored red Spies and wit will ingly pay third more for them than they will green sp pler Personally preicr the Greening or Green Pippin tor pies because they are good flavored and do not break down when they are cooked course it is all matter of preterence not alter all no matter what the colors at an pies may be they are all white when the peel is rentoved abapples at various var ieties grow wait here and are very much to demand in the late fall and around Thanksgiv tng when housewives like to make them into cannedtruits and jellies Very lew apple growers produce crabapples anymore He finds that considerable percentage oi the stored apples sell at the iarrnwhlle other go to stores in Barrie Alliston Tottehhom Beetoa and some to cannery thtitcheilsl in Thorahury Ha notes that most the apple varieties in his storage will last to around the last week in May TheSples are particularly good for long stor age He sdvises housewives huyiagrstored apples to keep them in cool hasementnl sim ilar place neyer at room tem pcratnre SltlltAGE crete block tulle keeps warmth otttlndtheeoldlirannthls aaItnsi storage at apples the load ll draw cool night alr into the storage mum at night when temperatures are low and theashut the tensoil dunno the day Cool air drown in st night lsretaioedhy the storage but room and low temperature of apples all day the temperature rising not more than lew degrees above the normal temperature of it to 36 degrees untoward in the building even on urns days llr Burnrtt who purchased the lam one year no has acres at apple treeshtost se are standard size trees he is watching wlth Inter est thesemi dwarllpple trees limitation EQUIPMENT lar trrmm who mean bullnul RUGGEDFOR PRODUCTION CASE TRACTORS STAND UP to continuous use CUT DOWN operating costs ELIMINATE downtime Theres 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