Excerpt from The Poultry and Egg Situation, 1957 The unfavorable financial outcome of the 1956 storage operations prob ably will reduce diversion to storage this year unless a significant decline occurs in the 1957 hatchings of replacement chicks. The decline would have to be 7 or 8 percent or perhaps even more. A smaller decline would not assure a cut in fall egg production, since farmers could maintain output by reducing the rate of culling, using less rigid standards for selecting pullets among the chickens raised, and by increasing the rate of lay per bird. On December 1, hatcheries reported 12 percent fewer replacement-type eggs in incubators than a year earlier. In California, settings of light breed eggs in the last 3 weeks of December were 9 percent below a year earlier. However, these declines are not necessarily indicative of the season as a whole. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.