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range the details and raise the nec-
essary funds.
The actual job of, restoring the
property began .several years ago.
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i' Sixty years ago this fall a stu- American.pe er and
will be transformed into a park.
Since Woodside is only a few hun-
dred yards oc No. 7 Highway•run-'
ning from Toronto to Sarnia, it
promises to attract many. visitors.
"Our only regret," Mr. Breithaupi
said in announcing 'plans for the
restoration of Woodside, "is that
Mr. King did not live to see the
property restored to its former
beauty. Be was. deeply apprecia-
tive of our. plans and at the -e-
quest of the architects, made many
suggestions which have aided us in
our work,"
Mr. Breithaupi appealed to Can-
adians to support the project with
their financial contributions which
may be. mailed to the Mackenzie
Ting Woodside Trust, 1 Adam St.,
Kitchener. "Woodside," he said,
"will be to Canada what Mr. Roose-
velt's Hyde Park home is to the
aple- It is prop
fitting that it should be preserved
to perpetuate the memory of a
great Canadian who never forgot
The 100"year old white brick house the inspiration of his humble
was badly run down and it was home-"
quite evident that it could not be •
satisfactorily repaired. Nothing
short of a complete rebuilding job BRUCEEIELD
would preserve the home for the -
future. 1, Mr. and Mrs. George Griffiths and
chilJenkins ,and Wright, Kitchener! m sawit'h of' Stratford,
s H nP Christ -
Jenkins
architects, were engaged to handle Berry
the job which, in many respects, I and Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Elliott.
resembles the rebuilding of the' Mr, and Mrs., Donald Grey and
White House in' Washington.... De- children spent .Christmas in Brant -
tailed drawings and sketches werell",1 and were accompanied home
made of both the interior and ex -1 by Mr. Grey's parents.
t:frior of the house and scores of Mr. and Mrs. Orland Johnston
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photographs were taken to record . nd sons sent a. few. days in Lis -
°very detail of the building, Then
',3r. Ring hint.=elf was consulted
twirl he furnished still other details
of the home as he recalled it, in-
-hiding one section of the house
which was torn down many years'
ago.
Then began the difficult and ex-�
acting job of tearing down the
`rouse and rebuilding it with the
original brick so as to preserve its
century -old chaiacter and appear-
ance, The painstaking efforts of
:he builders. have been largely .re-
varded and the new house that is
now taking shape has every ap-
rearance of a house built many
years ago.
When the rebuilding ''''work is
Completed next spring, the interior
'jf the crouse will be an exact re-
•:lira of the home Mr. King knew
as a boy. It will be furnished. too,
i'with many of the same furnishings
!hat graced the house when . Mr.
King lived there.
This is being made possible by
fhe executors of Mr. King's estate
who have offered their co-operation
in furnishing the home. Various
article of furniture which Mr. King,
took to Kingsnr'ere and Laurier,.
use will be made available to
dside. • ,
Th executors are alsa assisting
with lans to establish a library at
Wood 'de. This will include some
of Mr. King's volumes as well as
books rom his father's library
which .e read as a boy. Arrange-
ments 'gay also be made with the
Kitchen •r Public Library Board to
establish a branch library at Wood-
side for the people living in that
'ection of the city.
The art gallery will recognize
Mr. King's efforts to develop a dis-
tinctive Canadian character and
culture. It will feature the wol'k
of prominent Canadian -artists and
may include paintings collected
''ome years ago by a group of Kit-
ehener women and then turned ov-
er to the National Gallery at Ot-
tawa for safe-keeping.
--To-..lend beauty to Woodside and
to, accommodate the many tourists
aero are expected to visit the ca-
nts each summer, the eievenycres
woodland surrouziding the home
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THF 1-T1'1? ON EXPOSITOR
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r y Produce Co., Brussels,
puffers Heavy Loss by Fire
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Ts ere t!h r n 410,000 damage ' was
done by a fire Wednesday after-
noon last week that destroyed the
building and, most of the contents
o1 the Bray Produce Co, on Main
iS't;, in the centre of Brussels, The
Brussels volunteer fire department,
assisted by one truck and crew of
the Wingham fire brigade, at one
time had eight streams • of water
playing in' a successful effort to
prevent the spread of the blaze to
the rent of a solid block of busi-
ness places.
SmOke damage was done to con-
tents in the D. A. Rahn furniture
store, which touches the south side
of the Bray building; less damage
was done to Coleman's restaurant,
which touches the north side of
the Bray building.
The two-storey building, in 'which
Clifford Bray operated a farm ins:
plement agency, implement parts
depot, and a feed 'business, as well
as the produce 'business, was clean-
ed out by the fire. A truck and a
tractor that were in the back 'end
of the ground floor, were driven
out, but nothing else was saved.
Cause of the fire has not been de-
termined:
The loss included about 1,060
dozen eggs, most of the Saturday
egg collection from the rural area
served by the Bray grading station.
Mr. Bray could not immediately
estimate the amount of loss in feed
and in implement parts. The loss
is partly covered by insurance. .
The fire broke out'wbile no one
was in the building on the Boxing
Day holiday. Alex Routledge, who
lives on the street east of Main St.,
was one of the first to see the fire,
and to give the alarm. From his
home, Mr. Routledge saw smoke
coming from a. back window of the
Bray building. At about the same
time a passerby on Main S't. saw
what he first thought was steam
coming. -from the building around
the edges of the door. ,.
The alarm was given at 1;15. p.m:
Reeve Roy Cousins came immedi-
ately to the scene, and in consulted
Con with the fire chief, Melvin
Thompson, decided that the danger i
of the fire spreading througl5 the
solidly built-up block of business
places warranted a •call foi help,
The Wingham fire department
sent a truck in answer to the call.
'Making the best time possible over
• .„.„know -drifted roads, the W4ngliam
truck arrived soon .after 2:00 p.m.,
by which time the Brussels brigade
was beginning to get the fire hi the
Bray building under .control. The"
extra hose lines laid by the Wing -
ham crew helped safeguard the
buildings on either side of the fire,
and by 3:30 p.m. the fire was end-
ed.
Damage was greater in the back,
or east end, of the Bray building,
and the fire appeared to have a
`ti greater sweep through the second
,floor than through the ground
floor. Destruction was least in the
office, which, was at the front, or
west end, on the ground floor.
•si' Mr. Bray made arrangements at
once td' get the use of a former
bank building three dopes north of
his 'burned -out building, and set
about organizing for business -as -us-
ual. He expects to be able to carry
on his egg -collecting business with-
out interruption, and to get his feed
business operating again without
much delay.
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Brussels Couple
In Hospital From
Coal Gas Fumes
An elderly Brussels couple, Mr.
and Mrs. John Simmons, each 80
years of age, are recovering from
the effects of gas fumes in Clinton
General Hospital. Mr. Simmons,
who suffered more from the fumes;
is expected to recover.
'The couple was discovered un-
conscious in •bed, suffering' from
coal gas fumes which had escaped
from a stove. -heavy snowstorm
was raging wh n they were found.
A local mflkma' , Scott Powson,
was unable to get any response at.
the door. Reeve R. B. Cousins, Jim
Armstrong and Thomas Miller
broke into the house. Dr. C. A.
Meyers had the couple removed to
hospital. Last September Mr. and
Mrs. Simmons celebrated their 61st
wedding anniversary.
Keeping Apples
Longer
The keepinrqualities of all kinds
of fruit, particularly apples, can be
greatly affected .by environmental
factors. For example, under natur-
al conditions the McIntosh apple
matures during the last week of
September, is picked, becomes eat-
ing ripe in ten days' time, at 60
degrees F. and by the first week in
November becomes shrivelled ani
loses flavour. Experiments conduct-
ed at the Summerland Experimen-
tal Station in British ,Columbia in-
dicate that this same variety of
apple, if placed in 30 to 32 de,
grees•,cold storage immediately af-
ter, picking, may be held in. satis-
factory condition until approxi-
mately the middle of January. Its
keeping qualities are thus • more
than doubled by storing it at a
temperature of 30 degrees as com-
pared with room temperature of 60
to 65 degrees.
While temperature is the most
important factor in determining the
keeping qualities of apples, S. W.
Porritt of the Summerland Station
points out that other factors also
must be taken into account. One
of these is the humidity or damp-
ness of the atmosphere, An apple
stored in a dry atmosphere soon
shrivels and its storage life is con-
sequently reduced because of de-
terioration in appearance and qual-
ity. For this reason, apart from
temperature, apples should be held
-at humidities of 80 per cent or bet-
ter in order to insure firm, crisp
eating quality. A smooth skinned,
unwrinkled apple, even if slightly
over -ripe, is often reasonably ac-
ceptable to the consumer.
Considerable work has been done
'n recent' years on prolonging the
keeping Iife of apples by manipu-
i lation of the chemical 'constituents
of the atmosphere. Thus certain
varieties of apples may be kept un-
der so-called "gas storage" or con-
trolled atmosphere storage in
which keeping life is extended 'by
reducing the ortygen and increas-
ing the carbon dioxide content of
CHANGE OF
INCOME TAX DISTRICT
NOTICE TO TA-F'AYERS RESIDING IN
HURON, BRUCE and
WELLINGTON COUNTIES
• The Counties of HURON, BRUCE and WEL-
LINGTON, formerly under the jurisdiction of
the London or Hamilton District Taxation
_,Offices;'. have now been transferred to the
( jurisdiction of the District Taxation Office at
Kitchener, Ontario, located in the Dunker
Building, 251 King Street West. Accordingly,
the records of all taxpayers residing in these
three Counties have been transferred from
the District Taxation ,Offices at London or
Hamilton, to their new location, and_any re-
lated correspondence or general inquiries on
taxation matters, should be directed . to the
District Taxation Office at Kitchener.
• Remittances of tax by individuals and cor-
porations, and tax deducted at the source -by -
employers resident in the Counties of HUR-
ON, BRUCE and WELLINGTON, should be
mailed or delivered to the District Taxation
Office at Kitchener.
• Taxpayers (both individuals and corpora-
tions) resident in the above-mentioned Coun-
ties, who formerly filed their appropriate
Income Tax returns and Succession Duty re-
turns with the District Taxation Offices at
London or Hamilton, will. file their returns
for 1951 and subsequent taxation years, with
the District Taxation Office at Kitchener.
isA ' N OF NATIO AL :REVENUE—
TAXATION DIVISION ..
the atmosphere. This method has-
been used particularly in England
with certain varieties which devel-
op physiological disorders when
stored in ordinary low temperature
storage. Controlled atmosphere
storage, however, hods met with on-
ly limited acceptance in Canada,
because in general our varieties re-
spond satisfactorily to ordinary
cold storage in air.
An apple in the course of re-pha-
tion normally gives off certain gas-
es which affect the keeping life of
that apple and other apples stored
in the same room. For instance,
gases are produced which 'cause
skin scald, and other gases such
as ethylene are kntown to acceler-
ate ripening. In recent years, in-
terest has centred around means
of removing some of these harmful
gases from the storage atmosphere
and thus preventing apples from
causing their own destruction. It
has been found that a large propor-
tion of the gases produced by ap-
ples can be absorbed on 'activated
carbon air filters. This is accom-
plished by continuous circulation
of part of: the atmosphere in the
storage room aver activated car-
bon, in order to absonh and thus
remove these gases. Ethylene,
however, which is probably the
most 'harmful of the gasps produc-
ed by respiring fruit, is not capable
of being absorbed on activated car-
bon at ordinary temperatures and
therefore other means must be
found for removing this substance.
The whole field of air purification
of apple storages by means of ac-
tivated carbon is under intensive
investigation at the present time,
but as yet no• final conclusions
have been reached as to the prac-
ticatblility of this method for pro-
longing the keeping life of apples.
For the average home owner, the
best way to insure that apples re-
tain their firmness and crispness
over as long a period as possible
is to store them in a cool basement
room as near to 32 degrees as pos-
sible and with as high humidity as
can be obtained, The relative hum-
idity of the atmosphere n' be in-
creased by sprinkling wateraon the
'loor of the fruit room, of by plac-
ing a false floor over a bed t ,peat
moss which can be periodically wa-
tered in order to provide moisture
through continuous evaporation.
Ftfr• the -owner of an apartment or
small .home where storage is
scarce, apples should be kept in
the refrigerator until used in'order
to prevent the high temperatures
normally found in a home from
causing undue ripening and shrivel-
ling.
Butter Has Long
History
The original discoverer of the
buttermaking process is unknown,
hut butter is believed to have ex-
isted before 2.000 BC., and numer
ous references to butter occur in
the Old Testament. Strangely en-
ough, some of these references are
the bases of controversy. For ex-
;mple, in Proverbs- 3033: "Surely
the churning of milk bringeth forth
butte's" The literal translation
rom the Hebrew is: ."When milk
s pressed it bringeth forth
Chemah." 'For a number of reas-
ons, this is taken' ..to mean that
Fermented curdled milw was
brought forth.
The uses to which butter was ap-
plied in the early days are numer-
ous. It was used as a cosmetic, an
external medication, for sacrifices
•n Hindu worship, an ointment for
the skin, an ingredient for the bath,
for smearing sheep. as oil for
lamps, and in India it was even
used as axle grease for bridal char-
ots. As a food, in the early times
it was used more to enrich other
'odds than as. a spread. One sig-
nificant point emerges. It was a
-rrized ingredient for all the var-
'ous uses, and ,its importance is
•••marked by a cumber of -early his-
torians.
As ,an article of commerce, little
's known of its position in ancient
times. An early 'historian records
that butter was shipped from India
'o ports on the Red Sea in the ear-
ly centuries. In the• 12th century,
German wine was exchanged for
Seanadina.vian butter, and in the
'3th and lith centuries butter was
an item of export from Norway and
Sweden. From records it would ak
pear that the art of buttermaking
'n Europe was developed in the
Scandinavian countries and was kit
traduced to the rest of Europe, and
later, North America.
In many countries a taste was
developed for rancidity in putter.
In Ireland and' Scotland, before the
16th century, butter was packed
,nd stored in peat bogs to ripen.
'rhe Romans are said .to have kept
'!'.heir butter until a degree,of ran-
'cidity was produced.- From the
12th century on, butter became one
of the important export items in
the trade of the Scandinavian coun-
tries, and as the. taste for butter
began boosting the demand, the
butter making industry began to
assume a position of progressively
greater importance to the economy
of the dairying countries of Eur-
ope.
Up to; and including the early
natt, of the 19th rentury, factory
manufacture of hitter was practic-
ally unknown in either Europe or
North America, and buttermaking
on the farms had grown into an
extensive industry. However. the
'ack of uniformity' in quality and
flavor., coupled with the need for
methods that wou'd speed up .pro-
duction led to the construction and
use of ere^ming"and buttermaking
equipment.
In the later half of the last cen-
tury much Canadian butter was ex-
ported to treat Britain. It is a
matter of record that on several
occasions the loss of the British
market was imminent, chiefly be-
cause of poor pack'ng; lack of uni-
fh'rtnity of quality, and in one Pi -
Stance a charge that Canadian salt
Would not do In butter for the Eng-
lish market. This latter case was
so Orions that an agr]dultural
cornin1ssion, then s'ttinH investigat-
ed tire, case and found that the
A busy and .versatile man is< -A_ ie Seaman Ranny O'Laney, of
Parrsboro, N.S, one of the 760 -odd Canadian sailors serving in the
Korean theatre. A crew member of the destroyer H.M,C.S. Noot,
ka, AB. O'Laney normally, is employed in the ship's Wardroom but
at action stations he dons 'a tin hat and switches his scene of ac-
tivity
stivity to one of the four -inch guns. Then, in his spare time AB-
O'Laney cuts hair for the destroyermen. The above photo show
this busy sailor working at all three jobs. At the lert he is
shown carrying out his steward's duties in the wardroom. Cen-
tre photo shows him at his action station, loading a shell in his
gun during a bombardment of enemy positions on the east coast
of Korea:'' With him in thiel photo is P10. John Derek of Toron-
to, captain of the gun. At the right O'Laney gives Able Seaman
James Kelly, of Renfrew, Ont., a sea -going haircut with the de-
stroyer's deck the scene of his mobile barber shop-
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Mackenzie King Home
To Be National Site
dious young lad of 16 years roamed
the wood around his Kitchener
suburban Woodside home and
dreamed of the day he would take
his place ,in the political life of the
nation.
It µwas not an idle dream. For
:he young lad was William Lyon
Mackenzie King. He not only be-
came prime minister of Canada
hut die held office longer than,.
•nyone else in the history of the
'wintry and the commonwealth.
For more than 21 years Mac-'
'tenzie King guided the destiny
)f Canada along the troubled road
'o nationhood. And seldom dur-
ng these long and trying years
did he forget the inspiration of
his boyhood home at Woodside. •
Today, in his recognition of Mr.
King's service to bis country, and
his Lifelong affection for Wood-
side, the old King family borne 1
on the eastern limits of the city, 1
is coming to life again. The pro-
perty is now being restored to its
former' beauty and plans are
being made by, the Mackenzie'
King Woodside Trust to preserve
it as a national historical site.'
The 11 .acres ,of woodland that
surround the family home are to
be converted into a park and pic-I
n'c grounds. The house itself will
be furnished with some of Mr.
King's personal belongings , and
family heirlooms. It will also fea-1
tune an art gallery of Canadian
paintings and a li•braiy that will in-
clude the books Mr. King read as
n boy.
These plans ,for the restoration
of Woodside were announced .by L.
0. Breithaupt, M.P., president of
Woodside Trust, organized last
Year under the honorary chairman-
ship of Prime Minister St. Laurent,
to preserve Mr. King's boyhood
home for the Canadian people. Oth-
er honorary patrons, representing
every province in the dominion n-
clude Premier Leslie Frost of On-
tario, Rt. Hon. C. D. Howe and Jno.
G. Diefenbaker of Saskatchewan.'
To finance the restoration pro--
tett, the Woodside Trust is making
a public appeal for $150,000. Al-
ready donations ranging from $1 up
have been received from people all
over Canada who are' anxious to
see that the King family home is
-reserved for future Canadians
Except for a few close associ-
ates, few Canadians realized the
sentimental attachment Woodside
held for Mr. King. But this senti-
ment was very evident when he
visited Woodside in 1947 and proud-
ly pointed to the cluster of pine
trees where he• sat as a boy and
read Macauley's hook on the Trial
of Warren Stevens.
Wben he was informed a short
time before his death that Wood-
side was to be preserved as „a his-
torical site, Mr• King was delight-
sd. "I just cannot tell you," he
^-r^te to a Kitchener friend. "how
very much I appreciate the thought
you have given to the preservitt.ion
if ts'oods'de." In still another let-
ter, he confided that the "old home"
las been "the main ,inspiration of -
my' life."
Ironically enough, it was only
fate that. prevented Woodside from
being cleared of its fine trees for
some years ago.and subdivided in-
to building lots, The Property had
been sold for this purpose and the
transfer was being arranged when
Harper
transfer,
a Kitchener solic-
'tor, recognized it a5 tine old King
family home. Mr. Schofield drew
the matter to the attention, of his
partner, J. lc. Sims, whose father
•'-^s a. personal friend of Mr. King's.
The North Waterloo Liberal As-
sociation was advised and steps
'Vere taken immediately to acquire
the property on a trust basis for
restoration purposes at an appro-
priate time. Subsequently a na-
tional trust was organized to ar-
,,'larges could not be susstant.iated.
With the advent of the creamery,
Canadian butter quality improved
-nd became more uniform in every
respect.
In the early 1920's, cream grad -
'ng regulations came ante effect in
`!'e Western Provinces; Ontario
'(']owed in 1926, and the Maritimes
and Quebec adopted grading Short-
ty after, Butter standards are nSW
uniform throughout Canada and the
butter 'pr'oduc'ed in this country i9
secular] to none In the 'world,
Things We Print
Store Sale Bills
Window Cards
Show •Punting
Visiting Cards
Laundry Lists
Bread Tickets
Lett e'- 'Heads
Meal Tickets
Filing Cards
Programmes•
Score Cards
Debenture°
Note Heads
Bill Heads
Hand Bilis
Invitations
Pamphlets
Circulars
Booklets
Dodgers
Badges •
Drafts
Books
. Tags .'
Bills
Bons
Labels
Blotters „s•
Cheques
Placards
Vouchers
Prize Lists
" - -Catalogues
Price Lists
Statements
Post Cards'
Menu Cards
Blank Notes
Milk Tickets
Legal Forms
., Merno Heads
Order Blanks
Shipping' raga:
Funeral Cards
Business Cards
Greeting Cards
Menu Booklets
At Home Cards
The Huron Expositor
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NOTICE
TOWN OF SEAFORTH
PARKING
BY ORDER OF POLICE
To facilitate snow removal, no parking'
on the Streets of this Municipality will
be allowed between the hours of 2 a.m.
anti S. a.m.
THIS ORDER WILL BE STRICTLY
ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE
WITH THE HIGHWAY TRAFFIC
ACT -- Section 43, Subsection 9.
NOTICE is hereby given that the
said Municipality will not be responsible
for any damages caused to parked
vehicles as \ the resul'r of snow removal
operations. ,
nll,•li aJ
towel.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Stackhouse and
Eva -spent last week in Glencoe.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy, of Exeter, vis-
ited Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Cornish fqr
a few days.
Mrs. Elsie Forrest, of London,
spent Christmas with Mr. and Mrs.
Arthur McQueen.
Douglas McBeabh, of Wingbasa,
spent last week with his , parents,
Mr. and Mrs. W. McBeath.
Miss Janet Watson, of Alymer,
spent the Christmas holidays with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. Wat-
son. •
'Mrs. William Smith, of Exeter,
spent New Year's -with her sister,
Mrs. Alice Rohner.
Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Cornish spent
New Year's with Mr. and Mrs. Roy
Brock, Exeter.
Mr. and Mrs. Forbes Elliott and
sons, of Stratford, spent the hob-
• day with Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Dai -
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rymple.
Mr, and Mrs, John McMurtrie, eS
Hensall, spent Saturday with Mara
and Murray Gibson.
Mr. and Mrs. F. Burdge spent
Christmas in .Goderiah. with Ms
and Mrs. Jas. Burdge.
We wish to extend very sincere
sympathy to the sisters and rela-
tives of the late James Bowey, who
passed away suddenly at his homes
in Exeter:
;Misses Ina and Ellen Scott, of
London, spent Christmas with their
brothers, Ross and Bill, and fam-
ilies.
Visitors• over the Christmas holi-
day with Mr. and Mrs. Alex Mus-
tard were their sons, Gordon, of
Hamilton; Thornton, of Kingsville;
Frank, of Northern Ontario, and:
daughter, Marjory, of London.
Mrs. Clara Dutot is visiting their
son, Alvin, and family of Goderieltt
Township.
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WITH STEADY, YEAR-ROUND
EGG PRODUCTION!
Be sure of steady egg production --through-.
out the year. -Feed your birds a well-
balanced "Freshly .Mixed" Feed. A Laying
mast- '- Int ade from NATIONAL.EGBILDER
CONCENTRATE a completely - balanced
mash, with essential proteins, • vitamins,
and minerals.
Keep your birds vigorous and healthy
—producing eggs week after week—by
feeding a `Fresh :Mixed" laying maash,
made the NATIONAL way.
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MANAGE YOUR FEEDING METHODS
LIKE A STEERING WHEEL
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Just as you turn the steering wheel of your err to left or
right as needed, so vary your feeding methods 'le ' self
flock requirements. -
If thee birds are losing body weight on good egg
production, increase their weight by adding more grain
to their feed. But if egg production slumps, step up the
weight fed of protein -rich mash.
Always aim at good steady egg production which the
flock can maintain rather than at high egg prodsrraen
which burns the birds out early.
• See your NATIONAL Deal., to -do --
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