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...against animal diseases. Sulfanilamide cures fowl pneumonia and several eye infections, reports D. E. Lothamer of Louisville, Ohio; and sulfaguanidine cures intestinal coccidiosis, another common henyard plague, reports Professor Jerry R. Beach of the University of California. Such drugs are now a bit too costly for widespread use by poultrymen, notes Beach, but a large demand would cut the cost to a practical level...
...Rochester to query its customers on their reaction to the elimination of vests in spring suits. A shutdown on private radio sets was expected within 90 days. On the West Coast and in Hawaii there was a shortage of Japanese chicken-sex-determiners, who used to help U.S. poultrymen by deciding which chick was a pullet and which a cockerel...
Sirs: In regard to Mrs. Patterson's "hen house"*(TIME, March 4): poultrymen in neighboring countryside look with envy on Cissie Patterson's "hen house." Amazingly prolific, her hens every weekday lay an egg in six editions, and on Sunday an inflated goose...
...Poultrymen wish the New Deal would stop worrying about cotton, grain & tobacco growers and pay some attention to them. Said one delegate to last week's Congress: "Poultry produces enough dollars every year to make the income of U.S. Steel Corp. look like chicken feed." He might have added that it is not much more profitable as a business. As long as three out of four eggs are a byproduct of general farming-produced with little direct cost-competition keeps prices down to a level where there is little profit in the business for most specialists...
Last week, when Undersecretary of Agriculture Rexford Guy Tugwell called a trade meeting of Philadelphia and Boston poultrymen for Nov. 26, the cork of their wrath popped out of the bottle of their indignation. Said Charles F. Bauman, secretary of the Philadelphia dealers: "He's just plain dumb or plumb mean. Either it's stupidity or else he knows Nov. 26 is one of the times we work day & night. If Mr. Tugwell doesn't know that Thanksgiving Day [Nov. 28] means turkey or some kind of fowl to most of the U. S. what right...