Washington Second In Poultry Raising
According to the latest available figures from the department of agriculture, Washington ranks second in the growth of its poultry industry among ail the states of the union. lit the five years before 1926, the total egg production in this state increased 98 per cent—2 per cent behind New Jersey, the leading state in the industry. The number of eggs produced per hen increased about 29 per cent.
This increase in egg production per hen—although less in some states— is said by agricultural statisticians to be due mainly to the better selection of stock and better care of it. New scientific information on the care of poultry is another cause of the increase. Such developments as the utilization of the ultra-violet rays of the sun which supply the much needed vitamin D, by means of celoglass windows for hen houses, perfected brooders of great size and scientific methods "of feeding advocated by poultry experimental stations have all played their part in the country-wide increase in egg production during the past few years.
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