The Mississippi Enterprise

Broiler Production
Bulletin Issued To
Mississippi Station

The need for the increased production of broilers, to aid in filling out and supplementing the scarcity of meat during the war period as well as to help bring Mississippi's agricultural production on a more balanced basis permanently, is stressed in a helpful bulletin now being put in the mails by the Mississippi Experiment Station.

The new Bulletin, Broiler Production, presents a comprehensive introductory study of commercial broiler production in the Jackson (Mississippi) production area. And in an older commercial production area in Western Indiana.

Successive sections of the bulletin then are devoted to the important factors in broiler production. Securing baby chicks is first discussed. Then follow discussions on housing and brooding including recommended equipment

and methods. The feeding of broilers is treated in substance on protein, vitamins, minerals, simple and complex rations, and the use of cross bred versus standard bred chicks. The importance of marketing is emphasized by tables and graphs showing average prices during the past 10 years on central markets. A final section treats on diseases and parasites.

The new bulletin is not intended as light reading: to the contrary it is a compilation of experimental data which may be used by the student farmer as the basis for comprehensive knowledge of this important agricultural industry and for planning production programs.

The subject matter is largely in fact, in the form of tabulated experimental results on major phases of broiler production. The work of the Mississippi Station is used largely, but data applicable to Mississippi's conditions are cited from no fewer than 22 additional experiment stations.

The bulletin includes 90 pages and is freely illustrated, especially as regards housing, brooders, feeders, and related equipment.

Compiled by H. O. West and published under a cooperative arrangement with the Mississippi State Vocational Board, bulletin 370, Broiler Production, is being used as reference material by students in vocational agriculture throughout the state. Single copies are being sent free, on request, to farmers.