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Your Inquiries ere InvNed... a Held representative will call upon request. <> VINELANO LABORATORIES, INC. ^ a sudaoMHV or damon imr**t lanm mt vwiiamo NfwJfftMvesMo m kwim'?*" Specialist* In Livability 0< > mons PRODUCERS OF VACCINES, DRUGS, SANITATION PRODUCTS AND EQUIPMENT Ha INDUtnv / JAMUASY, ln 066564 7 ON THE COVER 0^GG INDUSTRY COMMHCIM. MMMIMW MOM FAtH Q MAMR JANUARY, 1972, VOLUME 5, NUMBER 1 staff WILIMM A. MAWStt, . _MOWMT IWMtNI l*H OLAMB C. HMTMAN W. J. HADILMAN m. i. won MOIACI t HAHtlf NWAID W. MAHACK NEWS ANALYSIS 12 JUSTICE RULING ENDANGERS MARKETING C0*0P MEMBERSHIP Contract production said not eligible under Capper-Volstead 15 FAULKNER STEPS DOWN AS UEP MANAGER Egg cooperative movement enters Phase Two era OITOftlAL OPfKff MmiMW* MhtiM* ICUity, n/T o. Hi.. MtiUMlil. t. O. IM MOT NM***. 1mm. in*. tIiMm*i UIHMM WBM 0. to* A MM, CW mh nutuw. ww. ** at NM* KWtolal k **4 AOVgRTISIMO OFFICII I N *.. I*. Hhi, CMub, I*. NM. Hlaehaa HJ-CMU41. WMlfMt-twM!W*. CM***,*,*LM* I<MIa|IIMii,i,CHMa m M IMmAmm: lM>y H. to FfAMlMB, C*IM Mil TaMMaaa: `HI* * IOUTM-IM BmhmH Ca. Nm Mi Hi 0 His.. NO Mm Ji. 4miM Tm ;pw. IiMm! >110444)1 OATI OF IIIUI M IMDUIItH k --Ml*.* ** I ikI mMI by *M ftwin IMM HwIMM* Cmihi, hiM Kata IvilAM. MlI L.MH Av* l UJ*M CM. M. J Mil nttaMM <<" > City. H J UUCRIFTIOMS ?tfTT 20 ARCHITECT OF CO-OP MOVEMENT: JERRY FAULKNER As a manager, you "can't ride the top of the fence" FEATURES 21 SPECIALIST DEFENDS EGGS' ROLE IN DIET Fingers sugar, carbohydrates in rising heart diteaae 32 ANOTHER LOOK AT HIGH DENSITY CAGE HOUSING Four-tier system features complete automation 35 WHERE WE STAND ON PCB S Monsanto's program to avert further outbreaks 44 PLAGUED BY SURPLUS? SELL MORE EGGS Promotion specialists suggest how 46 COURT RULES FOR CASH ACCOUNTING Apparently, hens are not "egg-making machines" 50 SEARCH FOR THE FACTS IS PAYING OFF Egg nutrition commission lays battle plans AIIOCIATIO PUBLICATIONS CapytltM I*T1 br Oaraa Mat* Nb|hM** Cattibaay. Ail ilMl iiitiiI IuiMm flM wlIbBBl pinalnln ll OfltMy araMbMa* A DEPARTMENTS 10 Washington 11 Price Forecast MGNS 066565 54 Rttoareh Digatt 59 Tiny's Corner 59 Cemlny Event* 66 Editorial K \>. It starts with research. Dedicating our resources to finding specific solutions to specific problems. It continues with production. Apply* ing our scientific knowledge to producing products that increase your R.O.I. It's our sales and servloe departments making certain that your order is there when you need it. It's your Sterwin Poultry Specialist having the information that is crucial to your business. H s delivering on our promises... It's Reliability. mqns 0665*6 tee iNSvtnr/jANUAtr. nn SHwwfn labofsloria* lf., MUHbn>. P*l*w*r* IMM TlftWIM SwbalSIary ol Btartlw# 0ru4 ln. 7 ipsp----------- Shaver288* `Living and laying betterthan ever!' No matter how many eggs a layer can produce, if she doesn't live, she doesn't lay. Today s improved Shaver *Starcross 288 is built to thnve in the modern laying house. With her superior production, vitality and stamina, she's the layer that'll make each square foot of space work harder for you. When you have Shaver 288. you've got the layer that's got what it takes--extra production, inbred resistance to Marek's, plus continuous improvement through applied breeding and research. Ollicial records show it. For proof of Shaver 288's inbred resistance to disease, look at these figures from Random Sample Tests completed in 1970. None of the entries were vaccinated for Marek's. 13th Penna I Ith N. Carolina I6lh Missouri 13th Minnesota Growing Livability 99.2% 97.7% 92.3% 96.1% Laying House Livability 90.2% 93.7% 90.4% 91.1% With the profit squeeze on. you need the layer that's got what it takes. You'll be better off with Shaver* Starcross 288-the layer that produces higher net income in any market. Shaver Poultry Breeding Farms Ltd.. Galt, Ontario. Canada. Southeastern Division: Box 88, Cullman. Alabama. j SHAVERfSTARCROSS 288 4-time leader in USDA summaries. MOMS 066568 THE VIEW FROM WASHINGTON CONGRESS HAS PROMISED public hearings in January on the United Egg Producers production adjustment bill, but the UEP still has a rough row to hoe. UBP's campaign for passage of the legislation his been sprinkled with pluses and minuses. Congress has been Impressed with the large num ber of egg-producing organisations backing it, but the absence from the list of the Poultry and Egg Institute iPEIA) and Southeastern Poultry and Egg Ass n (SEPEA) has hurt. A key figure in the drive la Georgia Democrat Herman Talmedge, who is chairman of the Senate AgricuUure Committee. Talmedge has premlaed to help UEP get the bill througflRongress. provided the Industry went* it. The Georgia senator is reported to feel that the UEP plan has support of sn overwhelming majority of the egg industry. However, he is inclined right now to let the egg Industry lobby the production control plan through Con gress. Althougb^EIA and SBPSA hove net endorsed the UEP bill, they have not oppoeed It? Capitol Hill sources believe UEP could sell its bill to Con gress without support from these two influential trade associations just so long as PE1A and SEPEA do not actively fight It. Bui without PEIA and SEPEA barking, it could take longer to enact the legislation . . and time is important. If Congress does not gel cracking soon on the UEP bill, its enactment will come too let# to do Ihc industry much good. UEP has set up a temporary political base in Washington, from where its reps fan out daily to recruit votes and resound to congressional queries about the bill. UEP officials also are still plugging away at.the Institute and Southeastern, trying to get them in their comer "3 USDA'S ISO MIX purchase program has moved more than 19 million cases of shell eggs off the market the past year The government egg buy was the largest egg purchaao in 10 years. USDA stayed in the merket long er than usual because eggs were a goad buy, and because it was feh the market needed the support. The egg mix is used in programs to feed the needy. USDA also tries to key its food purchase programs to help ease the burden when s commodity surplus depresses prices. In 1970, USDA pur chased egg mix for only three months in the spring. It bought a total of 946,000 cases. THE NIXON ADMINISTRATION was not especially eager to launch that corn purchase program but was forced to do %m to buy the Senate votes needed to confirm Ear) Butz as agriculture secretary. USDA market experts warned that the open market buy was an economically umeuwd way to ap proach the problem of raising corn prices. The government also was get ting heat from feed users. But the White House had no choice. Several Senate farm Republicans put it on the line: no corn purchase program, no vote for Butz. What effect will the open market buy have on feed prices? It depends on how fr the government wants to go in carrying out its commitment. Since the motivation was essentially political, USDA could start with the hope that the announcement would have a positive psychological offoct on corn prices, occasionally make a few token purchases, and let it go at that. However, most market experts here believe that if USDA is to have any appreciable Impact on corn prices by using this approach, it wUt have lo go on a real com buying sproo, tea msuinr / jahvaht. mi HONS 066569 i IMOUirtY / JAMIMRT. im The Poultry Profit Protector.. BWVAC-HVT safely guards your flocks against Mareks disease. Putty licensed and Federally approved tor production and dietnbutlon, BIOVAC-HVT la a live turkey herpesvirus (isolatad by USDA researchers) for tha Inoculation of day old cluck* as a protective meaeure against the developmant and spread of Marek s disease. Both laboratory and field Iriels prove BIOVAC-HVT substantially raducaa the Incidence of permanent laalona normally found In Marek's diaaaaa Infected flocks BIOVAC-HVT meals Ihe rigid standards established by the USOA for the production of a MareK's diseeee vaccine, on chicken embryo cells, every step of its produc" iging and shipment In liquid nitrogen is cere- in accordance with these standards. All sold has undergone a lull sis week period to Insure purity, safely end potency. for handling, thawing, vaccine/diludpd eaoeinalion procedures accompany all ef MOVAC-HVT. To order your BtOVAC-HVT. I: Agrt-Blo Corp,, Bos 280, Ithaca, N.V. 1*890, _ *0. ISNVT it a product of Agri-Bio Corp. Available in end TOM dbee ampules smaBy Owned tebiidlety ef Bebcocfc Industries, Inc. tm|i.fiirrTiTii"nTr.irir HONS 066570 NEWS ANALYSIS Contract production threatened THE CONCEIT of contract pro duction in agriculture is threat ened by a Justice Department "ad visory" opinion which possibly could force many large integrated firms and co-ops to withdraw from participation in marketing coop eratives such as United Rgg Pro ducers (and its six regional co ops) and National Broiler Market ing Aas'n. The issue surfaced when Holly you pick up the profit difference. ) When "other birds" (all oH m "hell egg" production near ihe end c>! live lawny period tlm Pearl" is slid producing . an antra ceMonable iwo dozen, lltai makes a mighty important difference in the balance Sheet et|H)ciaHy donng a profit squeeze In inr.ome ovei-feed flnrt c.lnr.k costs, lira ' Peart" leads the held* Ami yon con always count on Ghostley s consistent shell strength and interior ogn quality Year aflor year lire Ghoeiley Pearl lope every other breed in miniiot eyu quality tHetigh units) Pick up that satin CHiionsble "double dozen" per bird in your neat laying flock and beat ihnprnhi squeeze Pick up the phone now and give us a cell ^ *?nd |rii:<i laceiH two yoai U S 0 A. Random Sample Egg Test iadulations Farms Industries, a broiler com pany. sought Justice's opinion be fore joining NBMA. Justice told Holly it failed to qualify a* a "farmer" (producer) under pro visions of the Capper-Volstead Act This 1022 act was designed to give farmers some degree of control over their markets by reason of the abnormal risks involved in handling biological products, such as drought, disease, etc. An exempt coop is allowed to lessen competition among its mem bers and even agree on prices-- something that ordinary business men would be jailed for as anti trust violation. Ralston Purina Co . as a result of the ruling, dropped membership in National Egg Co., and. conse quently. UEP. and in NBMA. The co-ops swiftly filed an informal brief directly with Attorney Gen eral Mitchell, seeking a review of the advisory. The best the appli cants can hope for. Washington observers say. is for Justice to review the advisory, meanwhile agreeing not to prosecute mem ber* of existing C-V co-ops whom it considers to be nonqualified members. The key seems to be whether the large firms, such as Purina Swift and Armour, bear the risk of products handled under the contract system. The original C-V intention, apparently, was to ailew such firms to participate if they produced more product on their own (arms with direct employees than on contract farms. Few de. But until now, it was understood that this meant that company-owned birds in contract growers' facilities qualified. Now Justice says they don't. it appears a private civil action probably will be needed to clari fy the issue. Hope is dim for a favorable Justice ruling in light of sensitivity of the administration to charges against it--and new Ag ricultural Secretary Ear) Butz, in particular -- that it favors "big business" farm corporations. One high UEP officer said: "If carried to the tetter, the advisory would put UEP out of business." tee IMDUSTtT / JAMUAST l*| HONS 06*5 U ChoreTime introduces awhole new concept incage feeding. feeding for buds* in cages is here. now, The ChoreI urn* rage feeder makes II possible lo deliver an ample supply of fresh, unpicked-over feed In every cage, on a proy.miT'Tm'd basis. Wo tecominend 2 or 3 full feed ings a day on this program. This al lows (he birds lo dean up ihe leed trough. Experience has shown th.il buds' appetites are improved when Ihev'ie allowed to dean up leed at leasl uin e a day. I hey convert feed more efficiently - thereby produc ing more eggs per pound of feed Programmed feeding has been so successful that it is the nnlv svs lem we presently recommend It may be gist the edge you need m todav s compefiiivc mu kei To find out for vouisell the advantages ol programmed leed mg and how ease it is to adapt ,i Chore- Time cage feeder to v*'ui present cages, write us - or tail collect Chore- l ime Equipment. Inc, Milfoirt. Indiana 4t>s42 Athens, Georgia, 30hlM. M.ilde gem. IWIguim Made to work. Built to last. MOMS 066572 'iwWrU'.UiitiawB i'iuiMiii.1 NEWS ANALYSIS Faulkner's exit may usher in `Phase Two' era for UEP UNITED EGG PRODUCERS, beset by regional jeulutisies and disun ity. has ridden out crisis after crisis in its Ihrcu-year history. It has just faced Us gravest. Yet, it probably will survive--maybe in a somewhal different form--and could become even more effective in Hie future. Jerry F. Faulkner, who contin ues until January 15 as general manager after his resignation. De cember 17, leaves an indelible im print on poultry organisation his tory. His volatile, free-swinging style, which daily affected the in comes of thousands of producers, distributors and customers, built the first truly national cooperative producer "voice" in history and guided it Ihrough its first, forma tive years. The. situation leading to the change in management actually reflects much more than a de parture from Faulkner's personal mode of operation. It culminated from a series of events which shook the industry, combining to create perhaps the worst crisis the industry has yet faced: overpro duction. which always follows a period of high prices; the PCB and cholesterol scares, and, Anally, the critical 3'> or more unantici pated increase In egg production due solely to a new invention--a vaccine to control Marek's disease. In that swim, Faulkner and UEP were a victim of tragic circum stances. Overproduction and con sumer disinterest led to a financial crisis within UEP. Not only did membership dues fall, but the need by UEP for more and more capital grew, in an attempt to put a finger in the dike to bolster paying prices to harassed produc ers. UEP played an activist role. It entered the futures market and bought contracts because its direc tors believed that only by influ encing the futures market could it make the "spot"--or cash--mar ket behave according to true laws of supply and demand, instead of moving at the whim of specula tors. There was another way. Let the futures market find its own level; then move in and buy the eggs on the open market and divert them from consumer channels, thereby bolstering paying prices. UEP playod both roles, up to the limit allowed by its financial resources and by the exchange au thority trading limits of 150 cars per month. It simply ran out of money. Over a two-month period, UEP had to take on estimated 300 cars, losing about $1,000 per car Some say UEP spent as much at $600,000 m two months--Septem ber and October--trying to stainlire the market. Faulkner made the daily deri sions, any one of which usually offended one segment of UEP nr another: the retailer, middleman. West Coast. .Southeast or Midwest, etc An impossible job. really, given the scope of total industry pres, sures. In any event, Knulkcr. pressed by the five-man executive committee, said the situation could not continue as currently run and offered his resignation. "We accepted with regret," ex plained Fred Adams, UEP presi dent. "because, as you know, mv analysis is that Jerry has dune a tremendous job over the past five or six years with National Egg Co. and UEP. But we feel we had reached a plateau In order to go from here, we realized we must-- to a degree--sacrifice the past and present and start over." Dr. Gene Matters, UEP econo mist and statistician, was named as temporary general manager to lake over when Faulkner s resig nation becomes effective. Faulkner's exit from I'KP muv set the scene for a change in style for the organization, which is the national headquarters for six re gional egg cooperatives. It might be looked upon as a transition from Phase One--which saw (he birth of the egg coopera tive movement from regional to national during a stormy, violent building period--to Phase Two. which could mark a more orderly. Continued on jtaiie Iff PHILLIP ALAMPI jokes wilh Herbert Gabriel during the industry dinner in New York Ctly November 30 honoring Alainin, New Jersey secretary f agriculture and chairman of (le National Kgg l*rke Systems Study Committer. Gabriel, head egg buyer for A4I'. was honored similarly Iwo years previously Over 100 attended the StOO-a-ptate affair Pro ceeds went to an egg industry fund and to Beth Hillel school mi Israel. Tin- honor riled Alampi's contributions to the egg mriiisii v. Kir reprint vf the |iv-i'h delivered after the dinner by a siK-eialisl defending eggs contribution to the diet, ace page 2H iNbvmr / jAMOASt, irn MGNS 066573 IS HONS 0 6 6 S 7 4 NEWS ANALYSIS CotilfMwcd UEP change ... business-like era with some decen tralization of power back lo the grass rods--the regional cooperalives. Faulkner was the architect of Phase One. guiding the co op movement through a stormy pe riod, going from crisis to crisis with little chance to chart the course and define long-range ob jectives. Perhaps few could have performed the job better than Faulkner, ('crlnin)y, few couhl have withstood the heat generated by critics, One with less poise and a thinner skin might have "blown his cool" many limes. Whether Dr. Masters is the "man of the hour'* or whether UKP will turn elsewhere for man agement leadership in this new phase is yel undclenninod. In deed. Masters may not want to continue in the job for the same IKirsonai reasons Faulkner had up permost in his mind about quitting --lime for (he family. Nonetheless. Phase Two leader ship demands indicate a somewhat lower key. decentralized approach and change in style of operation. Masters is recognized as the type of manager who may precisely fit the bill in transition---and, per haps, surprisingly, thereafter. Dr. Masters was recruited by UEP in April, 1U70, from the Uni versity of Georgia where he was an employee of USDAs Economic Research Service and a full-time faculty researcher. He had worked on the ERS national study on egg pricing and did his doctorate thesis on the same subject. Born on an Arkansas farm, he pained a B.S. degree in agricul ture at the University of Arkansas nod later did graduate study in marketing and business at Geor gia Slate University, Atlanta. His Ph.D. degree in marketing and business administration was re ceived in 1971. From 1959 to 1962, Masters was production manager of Smiths Pride, Trussville, Ala., an integrat ed poultry operation. Later he was USDA supervisor of federal grading of poultry, eggs and egg products, at different times, tor the slates of Missouri. Mississippi. Alabama and Georgia. The Masters family lives on a farm in Oconee County, near Ath ens. Ga. His wife is a graduate student at the University of Geor gia in library science and a son is an undergraduate in political sci ence. A daughter is an art major at Valdosta iGa.) Stale College while one son and one daughter are attending Oconee County schools. If UIP de-emphaiim its role of actively trading in futures and cash markets, directors will un doubtedly seek to transfer this function to its six regional co-op members This would call for an even higher degree of skillful busi ness administration in UEP in co ordinating long-range objectives-- the kind of training Dr. Masters has had. ft was he who made UEP's shortrange and long-range projections on price, stipplv and cost factors When UEP challenged USDA fore casts. it was Masters who devel oped the data. Stability muv be the keynote word for (he "new" UEP. If Monager Masters has his way. friends say, lhe board oi directors will hammer out a set of objectives that span an entire cycle of egg prices for at least throe years, perhaps live, then stick to them, except for emergency situations. Even then, with Masters' type of planning, standby measures would be available for board and mem bership eonaideralkm. If UEP can Isold its small stuff together -- which seems likely :it this writing--its first objective will be to continue to push for passage of the Fowl Adjustment Act now before Congress. If it proves un popular. Dr Masters is the type, associates say. who will concen trate next on what he thinks is much more fundamental in tinlong run--a rhcckoff program (or research and promotion. Many within UEP, and without, feel that egg prices generally will not return to protltablc levels for most until summer. The "one shot" appeal of a fowl removal Continued on pn<;r 20 PRICE FORECAST No quick recovery is in the cards DKCKMIIKII PHICRS iveraccd several cents txdow the previous year and below the four year avrraec for the mwlh We einaely prcdlrlrd the low December prices winch resulted from the rnnlmmnj! surplus position of I he imliistry. The present PRC surplus problem is pri marily the result of improved rale of lay due tv March's vaccination. Chirk placements in Novcmlmr and December were uol down as much as many observers experted in UkIii of extremely low prices of reeroi months. Placements were redneeil only H,7`. in November, deductions do nol appear lo be sufficient to compensate for improved laylnc performance of March * vacemoted I price slump is to lie overcome, slaughter wtl sharply increased this wmlrr I'ritea are expected to avernct* lw4o cm lion for most ol 1972 Were not out of the > Price expectations below are lor New tirade A (cents per doten): January February First hall ol '72 4-Yr. 4 If 1 lo ir lo In k I-arte d 71 V. MGNS 066575 This is all it takes to improve your pack and plug a costly, hidden profit leak? news analysis Continued UEP change ... program could bring price recov ery almost overnight. However, neither Masters nor UEP direc tors ever were under the illusion that it could be more than a "one shot" approach. They recognize the impermanence of such a pro gram, but say it would at least exhibit industry's ability, in the face of consumerism and other pressures, of being able to "get something done.'' Under Faulkner's forceful di rection, UEP drafted and intro duced the fowl removal proposal in less than SO daya, a process that normally would have taken six months of deliberation by any other trade group. It didn't pro vide for a referendum because thv nature of the emergency was con sidered critical enough to give it unorthodox attention. Faulkner (old Egg Industry, in announcing hia resignation, that he never envisioned this piece of legislation aa more than a one time attempt to clean up entirely unanticipated surpluses--the kind of action, he said, any business manager might have taken, in his own business, when beset sudden ly with problems such as PCB's, V'A higher production from MD vaccine and a cholesterol scare that decreased retail demand. Supporters end foot alike rec ognise that, even if the bill pastes in quick time (by March or April), it may never be used. The indus try, feeling 'the drastic pinch of ecofumflcs, is bJfelnning to make its own adjustments, and prices could h*above cost of production before a three-month below-cost period could occur. Since the "up" cycle usually tuts up to three years, the bill would expire, un used, in two years. Supporters say the precedent would be valuable, however, If 20 such a bill were needed again. UEP Is learning from experience, too. Part of that lesson is that more can be achieved if the entire in dustry shares the program rather than if UEP lakes the bit and tries to run with it alone. UEP has srored somewhat of a victory in the number of state poultry organizations which have endorsed the fowl adjustment plan. In mid-December these include at least one (and sometimes two or three) poultry organizations in 19, including most key states. Even Perm Bureau gave quali fied endorsement. But FB wants the plan to include provisions lim iting the growing of replacement pullets and the definition of a "producer" lo be changed lo in clude contract egg producers. Masters, at least for the pres ent, is charged with the task of welding together the shaky UEP structure in order to follow through on the fowl adjustment legislation and continue to direct energies toward the checkoff PEIA directors last month ap proved a motion lo support n checkoff. UEP's financial crisis, allhough serious due to heavy futures losses, appears to be under con trol. Regional co-opt have come up with financial aid to keep UEP solvent until enough regular in come Is received to erase the debts UEP's Phase Two appears to be under way as 1972 begins, and the organization and egg producers ev erywhere look hopefully ahead to a year that has to be better limn the last one. 'YOU CAN'T RIDE THE FENCE' Regionalism biggest problem faced by UEP: Faulkner SINCE RESIGNING as general manager of United Egg Produc ers, Jerry F. Faulkner has been spending more time with his fam ily at their home near Stone Moun tain, Ga., harboring no apparent bitterness toward individuals in the organization he helped form and led for three years. Regionalism, he says, is the sin gle biggest problem he faced while leading UEP. In facing one seri ous decision after another in dayto-day management of a pioneer ing co-op organization, he points out that a manager can't "ride the top of the fence." "You've got to take a position on one side or the other. Once you take it, the decision is not go ing to be universally accepted." The deep split in UEP's ranks over participation in futures trad ing--that left UEP virtually broke after heavy September losses-- triggered the crisis that produced JMttY PAULKNI* his resignation from his job mat paid 145,000 a year, plus fringes. Faced with the same unumstances, he would mike the same decision again, he says. "1 never worried about H because we were geared to lose monSy from dav one." The magnitude of the losses were unexpected, however It was his own decision for l'KP Continued on pope 24 tee iMtumi / mnu>i< h? HONS 066577 Ills bad business. If you have to buy or sell the raw materials of your business when (he market is going against you, it can cut deeply into your profits. Perhaps you've thought that this was an unavoidable risk of doing business. It may not be. There's a centuries-old business practice called hedging which is being applied with great success to a number of new commodities. Hedging helps you avoid paying too much or selling for too little. On the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, you can now hedge cattle, hogs, pork bellies, boneless beef, eggs, potatoes, lumber, hams, turkeys and inilo. It's a lot more business like than trusting to luck. Ask the commodity man at your broker's to explain hedging to you. Or write to us for more information. eimWOMBCNmUEXCHim <10 NvriK FranMm Chrea. Ht-nwra ftOOOt HONS 0665 78 INPUtTftY / JANUAIV. It?) UP DOWN ...that's how Seymour washers scrub eggs dean (instsad of menfy "brushing" st dirt with a swirling motion) 13 if nw mam uanm up and town. With cooloared brashes of toft nylon. With water flowing from brash roots, so ere17 brittle is free to scrub. Without high pressure sprays or node* to clog or clean. Without inlinerang the eggs. This is how Seymour washers clean egs Gently. SafeJy. Spotlessly Nest, eggs are thoroughly rineed with fresh water or a hypochlorite manner (at your option). then passed wider a "squarel-cage" fan for (aa.efftcseM air-drying. Seymour egg washers operate at up to 60% lower cost, require las mainseneocc, lea clean-up. Aad you get direct, te-line transfer to aay mate or model grader via a smooch, continuous How of power sup plied by the grader motor to eliminate timing prob lems. Seymour washers ire factory pro-wired, loo, so installation is easier and lem costly. Write today for full information on a Seymour washer-dryer that exactly fks your operation. Sey mour makes 12 different models, with capacities from I.SOO to 2S.200 eggs per hour Seymour Foods, lac.. Box 1220. Topeka. Kansas 66601. U.S.A. SEYMOUR MOMS 0 6 6 5 7 9 t r v Ctoss Auger Convayoi available in Iuui heavy duly dt>v option*. Drive* lot Iioim m mM location, electric or I' 1 (1. IIOWOI ICY Twin Blade Pit Scrapei aciapes two lows o' cage pits at one time Scraper n artpiaiMrlA for various pit rtimansions; snachment kiis to 111 most small tractors. 24 NEWS ANALYSIS Continued Faulkner... to participate directly in futures In order to influence price no as to benefit producers, Faulkner ad mits. The alternative would have been to have large Arms in IIEP's membership handle the paper with UEP picking up the brunt of the iotaes. He felt the latter way was to be avoided because il might ap pear to be a conspiracy betwee n these members and the co-op. Pressure from the Southeast and West Coast led to the brawl over futures and, consequently, Io Ihe acceptance of his resignation by the executive committee. But he traces the beginnings to the battle over an improved price discovery system. Some individuals In the Southeast blamed him for the breakdown In communications be tween Frank Urner and Egg Clear inghouse, Inc., on the eve of its scheduled opening last June. At times, he notes, he would make a decision popular with West Coast producers and suddenly SWEP (Southwestern Egg Produc ers > became his ally and NEC (Na tional Egg Co.) might be very crit ical. Then another decision would irritate the Westerners and SWEP would "get down on me.'' He stresses tbat such sssessments should not be interpreted as "sour grapes" because "I tried to call it as 1 saw it." While he expects to remain in industry in some role, perhaps in marketing, he maintains that some solution to the violent price swings must be found. "The industry must be operated as a business, instead of a farm enterprise" . . . with "some kind of production regulation. I don't believe the industry can regulate itself at this point; there may be a time in the future when it can." He thinks "something has to be done about fanning, in general, and egg production, in particular." Many of UiP'a trowMoa can be traced to the price slump, Faulkner thinks. "When you have member ship that has been losing money for 22 months, they become total ty numb and lose their clear think ing. One wants to do one thing, one another If we hadn't had three years behind us. it would have shaken ua out of business six months ago." He fears that "many producers are on the brink (of going broke) and the next six months could be the feather that breaks the camel's back." He doesn't expect substan tial price recovery before June or July and thinks the "washout i starting now." Faulkner, who is geared to ac tion. thinks UEP has been mov ing away from the activity that made it what it is: directly trying to influence producer paying price He thinks it is in danger of becom ing "just another trade associa tion involved, primarily, in legis lative matters." Tha tendency has been to get away "from the real guts of whal UEP was organised (or: to get in the marketplace with both feel and try to do something the pro ducer can feel results from." He points out that this is why a promotional agency like PENB (Poultry end Egg Nettonel Board > has never received the support it needs. "You can't measure results from promotion easily. But you can remove four loads of egg* in the market and move price of eggs up a penny. And you can see those results in your paycheck." Faulkner, still a young man at 38. must be recognized as the driv ing force in the movement that founded United Egg Producers, the first national commodity co operative. Born on a small farm in north ern Georgia, he worked on the University of Georgia poultry farm while earning a degree in 1W85. majoring in poultry husbandry Continued on page 20 166 INDUltSV / MMUAST. Itt) HONS 066580 EGGS arc our BUSINESS AQUAMAGIC means Egg Handling Equipment Huuutfaefmtu* aj ojjititmt jo* off ,tuum--------- CLEANERS CANOIERS COUNTERS GRADERS PACKERS LOADERS TWIN SYSTEMS (up to 40 caw p#r hr.) TURKEY EGG WASHERS The Lin* that is sold, backed and serviced by this nationwide group of distributors timLJ NATIONAL POULTRY EQUIPMENT CO. *'* V*,lM *VNWI. NORTH RENTON, WASHINGTON PROS} -asrs.wsmmt* "SnW.fc'MSl wtHMi* mMfwMMIm. inHtwiiml H*uNmM."iIm " - "sa! ST.............. I MM| |>Mn ff&SnSur uwwi siw >*1 *iSP,,u .n wtniiaiaiiu, .in". ;nr1!i"m*m" UN*. 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From heading the research de partment for Pillsbury's Gamesville, Ga.. operation, he took over as egg projects manager for a million bird contract operation. When Plllsbury decided to get to tally out of egg production during the 1080 price "bust," Faulkm-r entered the started pullet business When Georgia producers ap proved a checkoff in a statewide referendum in 1062 he was executive secretary of the ruling body created, the Georgia F.gg Commission In 1986. he helped organize Na tional Egg Co. in seven Suulhciistera states. Aware of SWEPs ac tivities, he (eit the pool system would not work. The name was selected because original founder.'! hoped to organise producers na tionwlde NIC grow to represent IS states and talks with producers in the Northeast led to meetings with SWEP representatives. UEP final ly emerged. Faulkner looks hark on the or Iremely demanding aspects of the job that took him away from his family much of the time. Though he had hoped eventually the job pressures would let up some, he finally realized that "I could not go on that way without continuing to make personal sacrifices." He admits that "the fault is probably mine. I was willing to put my job. my prestige and mv work ahead of all else. "Suddenly I realized it. I looked at my daughter the other day, who will soon be 13, and I said to-my self, `My god. where have I been while she grew up?'" (SO IMOUttir / JANUAtT TV HONS 066582 Here's how to get up to 1000 eggs per cage instead of only 750... ... on the same amount of feed! Ym!--it CAN be doo* with NEW t**d saving Cotenia! True."Mini" layers! Four 3 lb. "Mini" layors will lit easily in to o 12 inch co|t built for thrw 4 lb. "nor mal" layirs. This totals 12 pounds live woi|ht in ooch can--but tho "Mini" cage has ONE EXTRA EGG MA CHINE! Result--you canfrt up to 1.000 eggs par cage with the lour Colonial True-line "Mini" layers com pered to only 790 per cage (290 eggs per hen per year) from the three normal 4 lb. layers, up to 250 MORE EGGS PER CAGE on the same amount of feed with no increase in labor except to gather eggs, no Increase In electricity, and no increase in building costs! The Colonial True-lines "Mini" represents the FIRST major advance in poultry breeding since the advent of the hybrids. Since she is NEW. we realise you may have questions concerning this new bird developed through Colonial Research. The following are some ot the questions we have had to dele--and the answers. It you >iave other questions, we'll be only too heppy to answer. Just write us. Q. Is ths Cotonia* Troo-imet "Mmr actually different! if so. what breeding technique* have made her different? A. Yet, Cotomst Tree-Lutes "Mini" white egg layer it naw and different She leeretentt an entirely naw conceal m layors. She is smelt -yoi not too tmoS for high sustained aroducllon tnd adoauoto egg sin. Tho Cotentol brooding program as directed by gonotrtist Dr. trad Shulls, he* for many years bean aimed ct tho development of tho amabeat layer possible consistent wHh proaewt day merbet demands and nandt. Oui brooding erogram has several unless features not found In other brooding programs. For instonca. wo weigh aH aggs from tho trapnostod puNots In our several pore Hnet. This gives us an enact measure of tho rote ot Which egg tuo increeaea and the proclaa tuna the egg reechos maximum sin. Such Information is not poosMilo with conventionsi periodic washing* which most breeders use. Further, wo make extra weighings to obtain acctirufs measures of body weights. Those are lust two of the hoy measures assigned to produce layers with maximum profit potential. The "Mini'' it the result of mdliena of such measurements by our issooren start. Q. Has thar# boon field testing of tho "Mini"? What are tho results* A. The Colonial True Linos "Mini" has boon tested by s num ber of State Universities, in addition, our own tests and field lasts Invotvrng several thousand "Mini" layers show some distinct advantages lor tho "Mini." In one lost, com paring tho Colonial True Line "Mini" with small type and dwarf or midget layer* from other brooders gave the loi lowing results in favor of tho Colonial "Mini" . . . ... 11 % to 96% more to* per hen hooaod ... up to 29% loss food ... 12% to 22% more largo and astro largo eggs ; . . 8% batter egg ovality as lodged by Heugh unrt scores. Q. What is tho market value par pound of laM out Colonial "Mint" fowl* A. The same price per pound as normal alio hybrid layers. Wo hove discussed this with some of the notion's iergoot buyers of iowi end they tod us they wrd seeapt the Colonial Trot Linos "Mini" fowl ot tho going pricefor nyWM or Leghorn foot. Q. Some of tho now model dwarf rayon bomg oovompod am said to bo very skrw maturing--lata M starting tu lay How does the Cotontei True-Line "Mini" compere in this trod? A. Tho Colonial True-Line "Mini" matures astro tarty Mans laying up to 30 days earlier then some of tho butter normal site slocks. Q. Egg sin is often a problem in small alia layers. What about the egg sin of the Cofonisl True-itnot "Mint"* A. The Colonial "Mini" eggs writ average oboot 70 per cent largo and astro large for the foil laying roar, depending on environment, feeding and other factors, shall ouahty is bel ter than average, holding up portlcularty wed tn tho rate months of lay. Q. What about tho livability of tho Colonial True-Line* "Mtm' T A. Fvan before the development of Monk's vaccina, tho Co lonial Trut-Unos "Mini" was showing much batter than overage itveMMy In areas of heavy axpoauro. Tho Colonial "Mini" is sturdy, healthy little bird. Wo fool that she vail Hoe as wall or bettor than any commercial layer on Ike martlet today. Q. What do you consider to bo the "Mars" most outstanding trails! A. Her smeller body slit which permits up to 29% more birds in o housing unit, and hsr superior food efficiency with proven savings of up to 29%. Q. Whore can I order these new Colonial True-line "MM" while A. From any one of Coionisrs hatcheries end service cantors listed in (ho coupon below or from authoring Cotomst Trus-lmet trsnchlsa hatehsnos and distributors throughout tho U S. and world-wide. Write lor name of tuthormd franchise distributor nsarost you. Modern air lino shipping putt us within hours of almost any place on oorthl MGNS 0665SJ . -'i`fvSimaite!.,.., VIEWS OF A DIET-NUTRITION PHYSICIAN Specialist defends eggs, fingers sugar, carbohydrates in atherosclerosis increase Dr. Robert C. Atkins, New York City, o specialist hi diet, nutrition, internal medicine and problem! related to heart disease, was the featured speaker at the egg indtulrv dinner honoring Phillip Alompi, New Jersey Secrtlory of Agriculture. Hi* speech, '`Bps* and Cholesterol: Is America Owerreoctinfl?"tt printed here. Dr. A thins <* the author of numerous magazine articles on the sub ject and a booh he torote on the topic will be circulated soon. SOMEON1 ASKID MS before my talk, "What do you think of egp?" 1 answered, "What else are you going to eat for breakfast?" Thia is the way l was brought up. But things have changed a btt. As an example of how they have changed, I waa recently going over laboratory reports with a patient. I mentioned that hla cholesterol level waa a little elevated. U HONS 066584 "Does that mean I have to atop eating eggs4" he asked. It wouldn't have bothered me much, but it was one of the men right in this room. A member of the egg industry thought that because hit choles terol level wag high, he should stop eating eggs. If these in the egg industry feel thia way, would you expect the lay community to reset any different ly? How it all came about 1 don't know. But I place much of the blame on my friends, my buddies, the doctors, the medical establishment and the American Heart Aas'n. AHA it on record for promoting diet low in saturated fata, low in cholesterol, low in eggs, and high in anything that is left. Well, some of the things left include sugar and other carbohydrates. They propose a preventative dietary program to prevent heart disease as though they have proved their case and its effectiveness beyond doubt. It He* been 60 years since researchers were able to show that there was a relation between the level of cholesterol in the blood and thia condition they had just discovered: atherosclerosis. In 00 years since, we have seen no evidence that cholesterol in the blood, that is lowered by diet, in any way modifies or changes the nature of heart dis ease. Yet nearly everyone---including my egg indus try patient--is perfectly willing to accept the recom mendations of the medical profession urfthout ques tion. And the doctors use the same logic we would expert of a lay person. Dr. Yudkln, one of the great nutritionists of the 20th century, describes this as "Header's Digest logic '' It goes like this: There is cholesterol in the aorta and cholesterol in eggs. So, if you eat eggs, it raises your cholesterol level. It seems perfectly logical. But much more is known about the metabolism of blood and about cho lesterol than that. (St IMOUItIT / MMU4*V >tJ "W could cut out ail cholesterol in our diet and our bodies would begin to manufacture more . . . (with) little change in the cholesterol level in the blood." . First, most cholesterol circulating in the blood Is not eaten but is manufactured. About 25'% of the cholesterol in our blood comes from our diet and 75% is manufactured. We could cut out all choles terol in our diet and our bodies would begin to man ufacture more. There would be vtry little change in the cholesterol level In blood. The calculations go something like this. For ev ery 100 milligrams (mgs.) of cholesterol removed from the diet, the cholesterol blood count drops about three polnti. If your cholesterol level is in the 200 range--considered normal--you could lower it by about three points (or every 100 mp. of cholesterol you remove from your diet. One egg contains about 250 mgs. of cholesterol. Americana average eating about one egg per day, baaed on figures of total eggs sold, divided by the population. Unfortunately, this consumption level has been felling. So, based on 1965 figures, we got approximately 270 mgs. daily from eggs. Our total cholesterol in take dally was about 520 mgs., slightly more than half accounted for by eggs. If we were te outlaw eating of eggs--wipe them out of our world--our average cholesterol level drop would be about eight points--an insignificant fall of 3 to 4%, not enough to change anything. The mechanism for this is really very simple It is the basic principle of physiology of anything In the body. If we add sugar to the diet, the body manu factures more Insulin to lower the sugar level. If we add fat, the body will try to burn up the fat and keep Us level constant. So It is with the mechanism for control of cho lesterol. The more cholesterol you eat, the less you tnflMwfncfurr. You esnnof rsiee the cholesterol level by ealing cholesterol. Yet, rhere is no question that something in our diet ia contributing to heart disease. It wasn't until 1011 that the first coronary thrombosis was ever described. It hai grown, just in the 20th century, to an illness that seems destined to eventually af flict more than half of us. People ask why (hey weren't diagnosing coro naries before 1911. 11 wasn't because pathologists in Ww medical colleges were not good. They were skilled in dissecting the body and finding out just about any thing that was wrong. But these men did not describe coronaries. As common as coronaries are, we are prone to think of (Item as something we have always had. But they really are a disease of the 20th century. We hove always had trouble with animals in heart experiments. Wo couldn't even get most ani- 16* IMOUURt / MMUAtr. ml mala to develop atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries. It wasn't until about a month ago that Dr. Wlasler showed that the best way (o give monkeys atherosclerosis la to feed them exactly what Ameri cans eat They had previously tried to do this by feeding cholesterol or saturated fat or most everything else. But when they began to feed them the typical Ameri can table diet of pizza, cereal, ice cream and candy, then the monkeys began to develop the tame kind of coronary arteries we have. The Increase in heart disease is a very real thing The World Health Organization has kept figures only ON THE COVER this month is a reproduction of the third promotional advertisement (or eggs in the series financed by PENB's SO-60 Cholesterol Club. These ads are appearing in medkal and nutritional journals. The cover sd. prepared by Buchen Agency, Chicago, was published by Ecu Inoustuy so the industry can see one type of promotion (hat could be seriously undertaken if PENB were properly financed, or if the proposed mandatory egg checkoff become* law. Other activi ties that might benefit eggs in the marketplace in clude publicising talks such as was given by I>r Robert C. Atkins and Is reprinted hare, and by industry groups that are doing something about cholesterol charges with a campaign to determine tho facia and publicise them. See story about such a group on page 50. in recent years. What wc don't know is the prevalence of heart disease in the 19th century, bul it was truly very low. We have seen it go up by 20% in the last 15 years. In the same period, incidentally, per capi ta consumption of eggs in this country has gone down by 20%. When the World Health Organization studied other countries, they noticed that Japan was fortunate enough tu show a 14% decrease in heart attack deaths during the same period. During the same pe riod, not only was their intake of saturated fats and dairy products increased, bul their consumption of eggs went up 300%) Se there la no correlation in epidemiological studies between intake of eggs and the change in rate of heart disease. Findings are similar in every study done. In Israel, a Dr. Kohn has been interested in the Yemini tribe. He was amazed that these people nev er had three things: diabetes, heart disease or (rou ble in the aorta--the three things that in our society mons 066585 n "Th Eskimos novor hod hoart disotso wh*n thoy livod on a pur* Eskimo diot, which was nothing but fat." go hand in glove. They usually occur in the same individual. yet, he found that when the Yeminites moved to the cities after World War II, 20 years later the in cidence of diabetes and heart disease in them was identical to that of the other city dwellers. In a very careful dietary analysis, he found that (he intake of fats and eggs and nearly everything wi the same for those living in the city, compared to previously. There was only one significant change. Intake of sugar was unheard 0/ in the tribal Yeminltes, bui those in the city consumed the same high level of sugar as their neighbors. in every study on incidence of heart disease, it has correlated with super intake, or a very refined carbohydrate diet, such as flour or polished rice. Although many tribes, such as (he Masai and Somburo, hove very low cholesterol levels in their blood, they have s diet very high in cholesterol and (at--but eat no sugar The Eskimos never had heart disease when they lived on a pure Eskimo diet, which was nothing hut fat, Tho moat tignifkant evidence was a very com prehensive study of American eating habits of over n hundred years ago. They found out that in 1840, per capita consumption of sugar was abcut seven pounds per year. By the turn of the century, with advent of mast distribution of soft drinks, it went up to 60 pounds. By World War II it was 100 pounds and now is up to 120 pounds of sugar per person. If we consider all the simple sugars that occur in syrup, honey, fruits ami milk, it's about 170 pounds a year--contrasted to seven pounds 100 years ago. This then, in the cyoa of those who have studied the epidemiology of heart disease, is the reason wc have so much heart disease in the 20th century. I'll try to explain exactly what the mechantsm of heart disease Is. Our forebears were carnivorous, or meat eaters--and I'm talking about the human race before we became civilized. We couldn't even grow grain; all we could do is kill animals, or some times rob their eggs. We found a few berries, which were vary low in caloric value anyhow. It is estimated mankind sur vived on a diet that contained 90% fat and protein and no more than 10% carbohydrates. Than came the agricultural revolution and we began to plant crops and grain. This latter period represonte perhaps 1% of mankind's existence. Our bodies then were able to handle the small amount of unrefined carbohydrates as they occur in na ture, mixed with protein and fat. It wasn't until this dramatic change of the last 100 years thst the human body could not adapt to an intake of sugar in the magnitude so different from anything that the human body has ever before been asked to hsndle. Our bodies handle sugar by producing insulin. Our pancreas is capable of handling perhaps 10. 15 or 20 pounds of refined carbohydrates s year If it is asked to handle 100, 150 or 200 pounds, something has to give What gives is that the pancreas begin* to act hysterically and can't begin to control ihe in sulin level. It overreacts and produces too much in sulin. So we get a good deal of low blood sugar Of cause of high insulin levels. This is when the pan creas loses its ability tu keep up and diabetes nmirs There is some link between the high level of insulin our bodies produce and heart disease. This is getting somewhat technical for a nonmedi cal group. Rut I think we need to know what wc are talking about before we say cholesterol correlates with heart disease. We are all Interested in knowing whether wc can predict who is going to have a heart attack Wc take all sorts of blood determinations and try to And out what correlates with what. We have learned that the blood level of choles terol does show some correlation with heart disease A little later we discovered that another fat seems to show a correlation. It's triglyceride and is being studied more closely. TrigtycorJda is the fat you store when you're overweight, and is part of the fat cells. Triglycerides seem to have lust as much correlation with heart dis ease ss cholesterol. Any study that tries to link the cholesterol level with heart disease, without consid ering the triglyceride level. Is incomplete It is possible to raise the cholesterol level atul lower triglycerides and be at a standoff, or vice versa. In order to do any good, you have to lower one /rithout raising the other. Our studies show that the substance in the blood showing the most correlation with heart disease is the insulin level. The sweets that should most be avoided are those that force us to manufacture I ho most insulin. Most of us know that insulin will lie manufactured when we consume sugar This, then. Is tha link between increased inci dence of heart disease in the 20th century and our diet. Much evidence proves the role of insulin in heart disease. One pathologist showed that if you add insulin to the serum in rats, you increase the formation of atherosclerosis in arteries. Recently 1 visited Dr. John Goodkin in London, probably the greatest name in the field o( under standing heart disease. He showed me photographs 30 ISA INOOtHY / 1AHUAIY IMl MGNS 066586 v |nmp|iifmsn|l)i ~ "H a man can't eat *ggs. I faai sorry for him. Ha can't substitute caroals, which is nothing but an empty source of carbohydrates." hv had taken of the aorta of laboratory animals ho studied. In animals on a high sugar diet, there was f.n all through the aorta. In photographs of other animals which ate the same diet, except with no sugar, there was no stgn of fat or atherosclerosis in the aorta. Many other technical point* show that intake of eggs is not a link in the causation of heart disease. You may be aware that we now type blood feta as type l, 2, 3, 4 and 9. One la a high triglyceride, one a high cholesterol, one a combination, etc. In our studies, 95% of patients were either normal or type 4 Typo 4 is the most predominate disturbance of nil, having a high triglycaride. This has bten proven beyond a shadow of a doubt to be related to sugar and carbohydrate intake, and not related to intake of dietary fat. No more than 5% of our patients show the dis turbance which is said to be aggravated by increasing (iit intake. We are very interested in the cholesterol problem and have treated about 8.000 patients. We put them on a very special diet: restricted in carbo hydrates. yet with no restriction on eggs, meat, fat m- saturated fat. Yet, in our patients' population, 63% show lower i iiolcsirrol levels compared to before they went on (he diet. And 11% show a drop in cholesterol level of 100 points or more; not little drops, but fantastic ones. The cholesterol problem in these cases van ishes. although we tell patients to eat oil fie eggs "<0!/ want. And 94% show a drop In the triglyceride level. I recently had a patient who was allergic to eggs; stic breaks out in a rash when she consumes eggs. 1 (Nought to myself, "This poor soul is going to be deprived of about 50% of items I recommend on Ihe diet." l went over this recommended die!--not only for treatment of obesiiy, which has been my main interest, but for treatment for prevention of heart disease and for correction of low blood sugar, which hu gotten to be one of the commonest reasons why .-myone walks into a doctor's office today. This patient not only can't have her bacon and eggs or a Western omelet in the morning, but she an't enjoy our special dessert--diet cheesecake, made with a lot of eggs. She can't have our special dishes made of egg yolk or merglngue made of egg while. She can't use our recipes for breading or for lish and meatball* where eggs help the product from (ailing apart. We have diet muffins and diet bread, made from eggs. We recommend chicken, tuna and shrimp salad, which uses mayonnaise, so she can't have that. She can't have any of the things that help make our diet palatable. 166 INDUIMY / JAMUA*r l*H Our theories about dieting vary greatly from the standard, which says cut your calories and eat less. We have proved that if you cut out carbohy drates, it's not necessary to eat less. We have one patient who is a caterer and all he eats is chicken, corned beef and three eggs for breakfast. Despite eating 5,000 calories daily, he haa already dropped 100 pounds by eliminating carbohy drates. His friend, eating the same food, has lost 95 pounds. This is routine. All we have lo do is cut carbo hydrates from the diet and we lose weight. This has been proven lime and again. Yet the same medical establishment that denies that eggs are perfectly safe and. In fact, lower cholesterol levels, if anything, says such a diet does not work. You may wander why 1 seem to be alone in the medical profession in making these recommenda tions. with no restrictions whatsoever on egg or fats consumption. I fail to see how the medical profes sion and (hose advocating eating fewer eggs can fail to know so little about cholesterol metabolism to see that eggs aren't doing anything harmful to the cho lesterol level. They are vaguely aware that something is wrong with the diet because they are aware about the in creased incidence of heart disease, and they feel they must do somthing. Somehow or other, these mrn have found themselves in positions of authority and they have to speak. They say tha only thing they know--which is "Reader's Digest logic"--that -f cholesterol is high, it must be the eggs Many are not aware of the results of our studies and others like ours because, frankly, we have trou ble publicizing our work. There are people like l)r Frederick Stare at Harvard--who is t paid consultant to the American Cereal Institute--who bappen lo con. trol many nutrition publications. Whenever I write something that disagrees with (heir views, it i.< rejected. I have been forced to use lay publications in or der to get my viewpoint across. So I am writing a book and you may see things 1 believe in magazine articles. I don't know what role the source of revenue of these people--from the cereal and sugar industries --plays, but it strikes me as a possibility The reason eggs arc important in our diet is easy for me to understand because every day I have to tell people what to eat. If a man can't eat eggs. I (eel sorry for him. He can't substitute cereal, which is nothing but an empty source of carbol'ydrntc*, which is really bad for (he conditions I treat. When Continued on page 90 HONS 066587 " i WINTERPOCK FARMS JL------- ----- Hm nouaei t,5 rows or tt-ilt-i{l> <!*. 300' mw | ------------j 330' *0''*'.. "*0' J 81tlr conveyor 119' hetween nuliolnfts A fresh look at high density housing Hudgins likes automated *gg collection, manure cleanout, travaling food hoppars from Iwo layer houses. HIGH DENSITY cage laying houses are receiving more atten tion from American poultrymen, especially in crowded Eastern areas. On Winlerpock Firms, Powha tan, Vs., leu than 30 miles from Kichmondri new 48,000-bird, fully automated laying house is nearing completion. While some housca now being built hold up to 80,000 layers, the Impressive thing about this galvanised steel structure is Us physiral sixe---only 40 feet wide and 330 feet long, including a work area. This is high density. Installed Inside are five rows of four-deck cages. The house is equipped with the English-built Salmet Laying Battery Cage 21-dsy system, fea turing complete automation in cluding feed, water, ventilation, egg collection and manure remov al. The new house was construct ed alongside sn older, converted house. 32x330 feet In size, with tour raw$ of ihree-derk rages, sim ilarly equipped, housing 27,000 birds. The two houses are being connected by a covered conveyor so that eggs from all 72,000 birds will feed In-line to an egg packing room at the end of the older build ing. Ludeon Hudgins, general man ager, explains that the older house formerly held 8,500 layers in a double-deck cage system. It was increased last June to its present capacity by adding 100 feet to the length and converting to the Salmet three-tier system. WINTIRPOCK'S IUD HUDOtNI HONS 066588 Hudgins liked what he saw ami decided to erect the new. largo house. Engineers from Harrell Bennett Sales, Inc., Nashville. Tenn., Salmet distributor for the Southeast, supervised installation of the equipment but Wlnlerpock's own crews handled ail construction Hudgms has definite Ideas about poultry housing design and con struction He choae Satinet's 2! day cleanout system over the same company's deep-pit Europak sys tem because he thinks the pits of fer potential problems in regard to odor and manure disposal. "Whether you let it accumulate five years or do it now. it's got lo be done,'' he said. "You get rats, flies and odors in a deep pit that you don't have in my houses I've been in some deep pit houses that didn't smell, but 1 know there are days when they do smell.'' At Wlnterpedc, the manure is cleaned out about every two weeks Manure drops onto an asbestos L. board supported by the cage be low. Scrapers push the manure to (he far end of the building where it dropa into a collection bln and is augered lo a truck outside. Even in rainy weather, manure dries on the boards enough (50% moisture) to that U is firm, much like toil, when it is scraped Into the bins. Hudgins likes this cage system because it it easily adapted to older buildings. "Out cost per bird in the new house, as far as the building goes, is going to beat anything anyone else could come up with. We figured with another company and know our cost is 90' r of what theirs would be if we built it to use their equipment." Five birds are put in the 16x17null cages, figuring out to M square inches per bird--the same as for four birds in a 12xlS-inch cage or five in a lOxlB-inch cage. Coat of the 45,000-bird house, fully equipped including Bggomalie drum-type auto packer, was about 12.60 per bird. Hudgins likes this system, which places the equipment on a con crete foundation. Ho feels that systems where equipment is hung from the ceiling are less stable. His building has steel braces in the walls for wind resistance. The new building is equipped with one 72-inch fan, powered by a iwo-horsepower motor; two 48Inch fans, and one 30-inch fan in Ihc center of the building on one side and a 42-inch fan on one end. When the outside temperature is around zero, the 30-inch fan will take care of the entire house. Split baffles on the opposite side may be used to direct air up or down or both simultaneously, as desired. Three inches of fiber glass in sulation is used in the celling and windowlets walla. An additional 22-inch fan in the attic runs dur ing hot weather. Total ventilation from fans is 270.000 cubic feet per minute (c.f.m.), or 0 c.f.m. per bird. In 100-degree weather last sum mer, it was more comfortable in the older, completed house than iee iNevinrr/MNUAar, on MAHURI It ITORID on board* above cam for up to 21 day*. Bkimt *mpl<- spec* provide* for good ventilation, manure often dm* down to about 90% mow- lure. The cable-drawn acrapar it beginning to operate, in top photo. M far end of rage row. At bottom the dry condition of the manure it evident at it it push'd Into a iterate bin. Pram there it It augered to a truck outside Manure it re moved about every two weak* in thia inetollolion at Winterpoch Farm*. outside, Hudgins said. Doors, instead of shutters, are used outside the fans. When fans are on. doors blow open. When off, weights pull the doors shut. A Texas engineer, who recently entered poultry designing, handled the ventilation system, from the fan doors to the split baffle sys tem. Hudgins says It la simpler and cheaper to build than the baf fle system used on the converted house. Pan* are on the "downwind" side so that strong gusts of wind will not tend to blow the doors shut when fans are operating. The epg collection system has some unique features Due to a slight slope, eggs laid in each tier of cages roll onto a separate plas tic belt, which conveys them at a maximum speed of three feet per minute to the end of csge row. Here a "soap dish" lifter genth takes two eggs at a time at timed intervals to the bottom. From here HONS 066589 33 .yswa. eggs are transported on an 18-inch* wide "round" slatted conveyor. To (Ming the egga In at the right level for in-line washing and grad ing. oggs are lifted by plastic-cov ered fingers on an elevator and gently discharged. One advantage of the slatted conveyor over a belt, Hudgins pointed out, is that the conveyor may carry eggs uphill at a alight angle without fear they will role backwards. This is an advantage since the new house ia on a lower level 119 feel away and the slatted conveyor will carry egga up a slight grade toward the egg room In the older house. With belts running at maximum speed, it would take 100 minutes to collect eggs from the 300-foot rage rows. Hudgins says, but the packer could not handle the egga at that speed. He thinks one per* son will be able to pack the 90 cases of eggs daily in about three hours. SMes and doers of the cages are independent parts that slide to gether and can easily be assem bled or taken down. "The finan cial people Hko this," Hudgins ex plained. "because it's a portable operation. If we had to move a house, or if a producer failed, the cages can be taken apart, put in a hot-dtp galvanixer and be like new again. A plastic pipe runs through the cages to bring water. Either nip ples or cups may be installed in each cage. Connections are at 18inch intervals. Below the pipe runs a shallow water trough that catches any spillage or overflow from (he system and prevents ex cess water from falling in the ma nure. It's not difficult to observe birds in each cage, Hudgins claims. One can look up through the fourth tier from the bottom to see if there are any sick or dead birds. Distribution of feed is handled by traveling feed hoppers operat ed automatically by a Ume clock. Hoppers move to the end where an overhead feed system fills each 34 LIFTM fVfTtM at end of cage rows gently lower* e*g* ' if* !*** cmvwvnr ayMern at bottom. Egga enter the lifter* two at a time, earh /Hiin* jmo a separate "iwy bowl" rap. controlled by a timing mechanism. hopper with fresh feed. Then all feed hopport move at the same lime, if desired, evenly distribut ing feed along the feed bins. This assures thst bins next to each cage receive the same amount of feed. Hoppers can be timed, too, so that all of the old feed is con sumed before fresh feed is dis tributed. "It takes only 17 minutes for the hoppers to travel the 300-fool cage row," Hudgins said, "which is a quick way to feed 43,000 birds. " Inside Winterpocfc's converted SIATTIO eONVtVM Iranvpnrtx rut:* from case rows fn m-tinr prorrxMfii.' equipment. Round, plastic coaled wire ilals make it possible for convrvnr < travel up atipht grade without dangrr nf esc* roilinc bark. UNUSUAL SIOMT in Winterpock firm a converted houae shows brown ami white eeg layer* looking *t each other acrot* the stile. Winterpock supplies s limited brown eci market. These are Ihree-licr cases. MCNS 066590 house is an unusual sight. Brown and white layers stare at each oth er from across one aisle "We have a limited brown egg marker" Hudgins said. "There's no more profit because if costs us more to produce brown eggs. If w get overloaded on them, we lose. We don't feature brown eggs in advertising, except occasionally on Mediums. It is more of an ac commodation. Brown egg layers eat more feed and lay fewer eggs, but they sire up amt grade ont belter. We feel we must gel two SWfNaiNO 000*1, instead of shut(era. cIom when vemtlMimt fans are rtol operating, pulled by a weighted syilcm. Whon fans operate, sir pushes the doors open cents more per dozen for them to break even." Winterpock Farms Is the com mercial egg branch of Clay's Hatchery, a DeKalb franchise at Rlackslone, Va. Most eggs arc sold in Richmond independent stores, some under private labels and some under the Winterpock label. The market is growing. While 500 cases were being mar keted weekly early last fall, Hudg ins said there is a market for 1, 000 cases that he intends to All with his new production and outtide sources. "We're sitting just about 25 miles from 700,000 people," Hudg ins says. But he recognizes that nearness to market has its disad vantages, also. While manure is now being spread on a 1,000-arrc farm, in rainy weather it presents a difficult problem. Because of nearness to residential areas, no more expansion will be undertak en at the present Winterpock Farms location. But Hudgins thinks his automat ed housing system will allow him lo operate with minimal concern from odors and flies. The clean out system is especially favored because the space between cages CASH ARC MAO* of component port* that slide toeethei ronrn<'cntl. <*<- ran tie diucaembled, reaalvanned anti creeled at milker location. if desiml. Harrell Dennell, Holmet dtfUOMiiw. easily lifts lhe door off a cocc is sufficient to allow for air dry mg of manure before each clean out. The degree oi nutormition will allow one person to lake care of the 72.000 layers, with some <ncasional help on mechanical prob lems and manure handling. "We've had some problems. jnM like anyone does with this much new automated equipment." he says. "But we are very pleased and are convinced It was the best way for us to go." Future PCB outbreaks unlikely: Monsanto OUTBREAKS OF l*CB's m h as ap peared In the North Carolina fish meal incident Iasi summer are ex tremely unlikely to recur in the future, according lo the environ mental protection director for the Monsanto Chemical Co.. St. Louis. Mo. Monsanto is the only United States manufacturer of PCB's {polyrhlorinated biphenyls). W. A. I'apageorge traced the his tory of the use of PCB's. includ ing their recent emergence as a potential polluter of environment and foodstuffs, and told how Mon santo has moved to avert possible future contamination His talk was heard at the Midwest "Quickie" Seminar of Poultry and Egg Insti ie INOUtMT / JANUAtt ITO tute of America at Kansas Ctty in December. Are any new outbreaks of PCB'g likely? "Extremely unlikely." Papageorge said, "unices some proc ess or application has escaped our attention . . . It's inconceivable, unless someone has stockpiled PCB's and is secretly using them." Monsanto has discontinued sup plying PCB's for most uses, espe cially for any application remotely connected--directly or indirectly --with food or feed for animals. The action was taken due to re cently uncovered data concerning PCB's in the environment. What are PCB's? Papageorge said in high school chemistry we learn that when you put benzene under proper temperature and pressure, you produce some by drogen and biphenyls I two bun zenes together) If you add chlo rine, it attaches itself randomly In the benzenes. The product "is not a pure chemical, hut a cod awful mixture, depending on how many chlorines are attached." The resulting PCB's have cer tain valuable properties, however It is flic resistant, doesn't react with acids or alkaiines. and has good insulating properties that last forever. "Notice." Papageorgo said, "that Continued on pope M HONS Q66591 35 A closer look at the Golden At hl the H&\ Geidm Efmey ioah like m ordoiem white egg From an ordrary Whrte Leghornloyloe ben. Pm-hem iWhaavoeU_____ _____Wt* andhe-proMf.* H6N Golden Egg cm be justu alu the atae implmr Tl HSN Goldin Egg a eatmerdmeniy mmbetabit farto The lercple Backs of new H&\ "Nidi Chicks ended the laying year with n avenge of about 26lb ounces perdoien. which waouhts lo 73 to 80% Urge ia. for the year. Selecting for bigger egg* u several f oor compctrton de. won't add very auch to the percent Urge. batK can bout production, end di *dd iMiwnbr to the feed curt Fjmcfi t' ji> tfe ' *\ici Cltick an iifientieevftine- to four :trli per hen bonvd due to 108 *** *Uae' Mot. ver. HF-V< new' Nv-k rVvV* ' '8er art additional feed carl advantage by momtarnne lower bndy weight than we rshw 1 .ken ftrtmi ' 2 It hai a tonne itiMl -- ben* that U> prtdtrnimatuiv eitra latte m iwmbo Si natunflv deplete ihetr cal'-am tewrrea finer and produce poor quality thrift tnoner The new Ht.\ I Xrck Chick'. marola-nim a j deutableeee use putt (i calcium f tupply to work fa you ware eftrtcnfk . icndlmf inpenntentireoedihcU ftrength end quakty SbtRWtb and . queltty that ate an tWulr mint fa . today t mechanical at funding . , iciftc gnvrtvtctti of rtgifron the maior Wfute Leeftom rlmtiw oew Ht\ Vick Chick" at) ralr among the kiptrn. TradtttonaOy H6\ Nick Cfitck" eega show vev lew modetvre of blood tpott The H&NGoiden Ep o particular!. profitable fee on* h<| teaaon We believe the new H6X "Nick Chick" will lay more mockeuhie cggi then any chelm anywhete Report! (mm ike Md indicate that thenew HN Nick Cbck nuw the midtt oi tta ftfrt complete Uyrvg >ea> it challmg up tpectacular production figures. like occragmg %>n% rote offer for 23 oaths after reaching 80%' L vabtar hat t lot to chi with t Many Becks of new H&N "Neb CWkf etc ncordoM mortality retet between 30ard 36 weektatlewa *4 of I* a month. Docdt 1,1,1 To bidout more abet* the H&N Golden Egg. and the chicken that tayi . contact ycatH&Vreptetcritative He'| be happy to thaw It to you complete with a detailed explanation ofwhat HfhN irdoing to atako it evenbetter Like (hetetU jur Poultry > tmlogy Department (one of the most advanced m the December, 1971, Feature Articles Mow Long May Layers Re Profitable? -- Robert II. Adolph 577 This House Is Light-Tight ........................................................ 580 Reducing Social Stress in Rearing -- G. A McDaniel 583 Winter Ventilation of Curtain Houses.................... 584 Cleaning and Dipping of Hatching Eggs-- W. F. Ktueper ....................... 588 Hrollcr Sire Selection -- Wade M. Smith, D.V.M. ...............................591 Top Egg Production From Turkeys -- Chester Gibson 595 Brooder House Heating System* -- WiUiam A. Junnih 597 Dead Bird Disposal -- W. C. Fairbonk rmd F. h BramhaD 600 IS ISIS SSSS S iS iilis Table of Contents of All Articles in This Issue Breedinf and Hatching Cleaning and Dipping Hatching Eggs ......... 5M Broiler Sire Selection .................................361 lidbri Winter Ventilation of Curtain Houaet ....... W Kantme Broiler* Sam Feed .................... 60S How Price liaae Could Hurt Broilers ............. 609 Open ilouxmg and Old Litter OK.................. SOT Breading and Roaring When Pullet* Are Underweight ................. 976 Reducing Social Streaa in Roaring.................. 963 Brooder House Heat In* Systoma . ....... 96? eulogy and Waato Handllnf Manure Buildup in Deep Pits ................ . 966 Dead Bird Dlspoaal by Rendering................ dOO f*~ Kffrclc of "Prudent Diet" ........................ 976 ItoW Lame May Layer* Be Profitable? ......... 377 Booby Traps in Force MoItJng................. .... 963 Premature Moll* in layers ................... 966 What Is Good Egg Quality Worth? .............. 960 Poor Dabeaking Adda to Food Cost.............. 60S Bgg Producer* Need Profit Sharing............ 609 Peak Lay Not Key to Profitability ............. 009 Protect Egg Prom fta Detractor* Only Two Grams of Saturated Fet Pood* and Reading Overfeeding Can Be Expensive No Dietary Selenium Residue Opal Wheat Booata Feed Efficiency Too Hl||p or Too Low Protein Coally Mau*iop and fioulpmewt This House la Light-Tight Insulation Damage FTom Vests Insulated Bins to Protect Fred . Housing Practice* in England Poultry Health Precaution* in Uaing Disinfectant* Water Vaccination (or Tracheitis Turkey Hens Negative to Mm. ... Vaccinate tu% Against Merck'* . R. Mivati Not Highly Pathogenic Reduced Vaccine Door I* FITactive CoccidioMat* for Cage Pullets? ... Distillers Feeds Present Fatly Liver Turkey* Turkey Egg Cleaning Made Easy 1'op Egg Production From Turkeys Curled Tongue Can Re Hereditary 567 969 0U9 This Tabic of Contents from one issue Indicates why Poultry Digest is the must complete single source of production Information on eggs, broilers and turkeys. During 1971, Poultry Digest carried materia] from 180 sources--magazines, scientific journals, technical reports, conventions, sem inars and others Keep up to date with the latest profit-making ideas in production. Poultry Digest is $3.00 per year In the United States; $5.00 per year in other coun tries. Indicate your poultry Interest (serviceman, sales-servlccman, egg producer, broiler producer, turkey grower or whatever interest you have) when sending your order to; POULTRY DIOBST, Soa Isle City, N. J. 09243 HQHS 066593 iNOUfiav / MMUAlT "PCB's have certain valuable properties . . . fire re sistant. doesn't react with acids or atkalines ... good insulating properties that last forever. Notice that these are the characteristics that plague us today." PCB'S Continued from page 35 these are Ue characteristics that plague us today." Initially, PCB's were manufac tured. starting in 1029, by s small Alabama company, to supply a nonflammable, nonexplosive fluid for use in electrical transformers. Today, this is the most valuable UM' of PCB's--because of its abil ity to "resist breakout when the transformer arcs internally" so (hot "explosive gases are not formed." If a transformer should rup ture, PCB's mean "you don't have the situation of a flammable fluid scattered in all directions." The only substitutes known for PCB's in these electrical applica tions are mineral oil and air. Papa* gcorge said, but these require mud) larger units and are dan gerous and cannot be used unless the transformer is isolated in re mote country--such as is seen in isolated electrical installations sur rounded by high fences to keep people away. (n the 1930's, Monsanto acquired the Alabama company and has con. ttnuvd to be the only American !*CH maufadurer, H was found that lull's were valuable in capac itors. which allow transmission of electricity over long distances without loss of power. In this pe riod of power blackouts, this use tsa iMouirav / mnuait. has increased dramatically because of need to transmit power over long distances. Because of PCB's characteristics of resisting breakdown, new uses were found during the mid-1990's, Papageorge continued. PCB's were attractive as ingredients in the fnllowing products: Paints. PCB's help paint with stand corrosive environment. Uses extended to marine paints and paint lor factories working with corrosive materials. PCB paint has also been used on concrete sur faces and for traffic lanes. It was nnt used in normal interior paints, however. Sealants. PCB's were attrac tive to caulking manufacturers be cause it would allow material to stay pliable for years. PCB caulk was used In modem skyscrapers to fix glsss panes permanently, the caulking promising to last the life time of the building. (oka. Only in specialty print ing inks were PCB's used. It helped inks withstand ultraviolet lighting deterioration. It wasn't used in common or newspaper inks. Adhesives. Its attractive prop erties were its flowabllity In appli cation of adhesives. Carbonless copy paper. PCB's made possible use of copy paper without carbons. With extended uses, PCB's. "more and more were starting to get into our environment." Papa george said. "PCB's range from materials that have about the same consistency and clearness of wa ter to solid types that look like wax or resins. PCB's that look like water have little viscosity and have small amounts of chlorine in them. The more chlorine added, the more viscous PCB's become, until they Anally become solid " Due to problems in manufac ture, Monsanto was aware quite early that it needed to be careful in application of PCR in the plant and for customers. "We warned customers to ventilate rooms properly, don't get it on your hands, wash hands after han dling it. etc., primarily oriented to industrial hygiene practice* known through (he years. But at no time were we aware this ma terial could be harming the en vironment " In 1996. when Swedish investi gators identified the unknown ma lerial that interfered with insecti cide analysis as being PCB's, "w<> at Monsanto were frankly sur prised and disbelieving," Papa george said. As reports kept coming in that PCB's were out there In the en vironment. Monsanto in late 1997 decided to "have a look." "We developed our analytical methodology, capable of delecting this material down to part* per bi/Jiort--a new standard since nu attempt had been made to oper ate at such a tow concentration be fore. "The analytical methodology is as sophisticated as any that we naware of in the business It takes experienced chemists and expen- HONS 066594 Somtim in 1968, "w convinced ourselves that, sure enough, this material was out there in the environment. The next question was: what harm does it do?" live equipment. Those of you who have had this work done for you by leba are aware it's expansive work." Sometime in 196$, "we con* vinced ourselves that, sure enough, this material was out there In the environment. The next question waft: tohat harm does it do? "Throughout 1068 and 1060, we received reports of PCB's being found in some sports fish, flsh-eatIng birds and shellfish. The prob lem appeared to be one of posai* ble harm to some species of wild life in the environment and it ap peared lo be the more highly chlorinated versions. "No one had detected the low er chlorinated materials. This led us to believe, initially, that the latter were probably degrading and not really a program." Monsanto began a mulU-poioted program: Continue refining analytical capabilities. Begin trying to develop re placement products. Start animal feeding studies. Initiate biodegradation stud ies. Educate customers as (o po tential problems. The two-year feeding studies on beagle doga, white mice and White Leghorn chickens were completed list summer. The higher chlori nated materials were fed at 100 parts per miiUon (p.p.m.). They affected dogs and mice in terms of weight gain and causing enlarged livers. Livers were not damaged but appeared to be growing larger to cope with this new, strange sub stance. The lower chlorinated ma terials had no effects on mice or dogs. The higher chlorinated materi als also affected reproduction caps. bUtties. The second generation had difficulty in reproducing a 40 third generation in terms of litter sise, mating and survival of pupa. Nothing in the experiments in dicated that PCB materials were highly toxic, Papageorge stated. With the chickens, the lower chlorinated materials did show some effect. The first warning sig nal was lower hitchablltty of the egg. It wm found that at 2 p.p.m. there was no effect, but at 4 p.p.m. some showed up. "This was the first indication we had that the lower chlorinated materials could also be a prob lem." What did Monsanto do? "We saw it as an environmental problem Animal experiments revealed that reproduction copebilitios wore adversely affected, but nothing indicated that PCB meteriels were highly toxic. and we had better get out of the business." By late 1060. a plan was formulated to drop ail PCB business that could not be con trolled in terms of escape into the environment It's easy to reach such a decision in the conference room, but diffi cult to implement. "There are thousands of customers Involved and many don't appreciate envi ronmental problems. Many busi nesses depend entirely on this one product and they don't have re search departments and resources to find alternative materials "It was an emotional situation. In some quarters, we were hailed as heroes--usually by the person who hasn't been affected--and In other quarters we were S.O.B.'s. "By May, 1970, we dropped all businesses where PCB's might leak into the environment, nich as paint, adhesives, sealants and ink. The only businesses we would continue to serve were electrical transformers, electrical capacitors and heat transfer systems." Ptpageerpe explained that in commonly used steam heal trans fer systems, water is bested Into steam and Ihe steam is transferred to the process for sterilization, ll condenses as it cools and is re turned to be recycled. The re cycling Is carried on as a dosed system, within pipes. The pipes heat and only Iheir exterior sur faces are In contact with the ma terial to be sterilised. PCB's were used for this sys tem because they ran withstand extremely high temperatures with out being vaporized. "This means when you design the system, vou don't need safety valves or Ihc high-pressure design uf steam sys tems." Tse should be dosed systems and with proper maintenance can be operated as such. Monsanto fixured that, with proper care, they could live with such a system. "When the unfortunate North Carolina fish meal contamination broke, we realized we had ne glected one very important consid eration: attitude of the operators, and ability to inspect, repair ami maintain the closed system "Also, in a system like this, the problem must occur before you can locate it." As a result of the fish meal in cident, Monsanto reviewed its pol icy and decided it was too much to expect all heat transfer systems to be entirely leakproof at all times. So it was decided not to service any heat transfer system related--directly or indirectly-- to food or animal feed. Mensente went to each auch customer, helped them drain and flush the units, and gave them re- see imvim / wiwmy. >*i MCNS 066595 The New Over-Under Principle Pockmans MARK-1 Cage Feeder Porkman introduce* a new concept in Auto-moted Cage Feedert our exclusive OVER-UNDER-chain principle which mixes return feed with fresh feed for profitable egg production. feed wastage is controlled by bringing returned feed to top of the feed hopper - not at the bottom at other cogr feeders do. And lemember, our exclusive fooder choin is design' pH 'o rnny the feed - - this helps prevent feed separa- The Mork I Cage Feeder was destgned for and is compatible with Pockmon Cages. It was never o floor feeder -- raised and then wrapped around cages. let us quote you on the Mark t Cage Feeder foi new or existing cages. Pockman s Complete Poultry House Systems pay their way automatically S* IN0USUT / JANUAtT, |WJ POCKMAN MANUFACTURING COMPANY P.0. Sei INI DKeter.Alt NNI PWm: (SHI SUlUt A CttromtHoy Amonctn Corporation Sutmditrv MOMS 066596 41 PCB'S Cortlvr fd from page 40 placemen! fluids The-PCB's were then destroyed by Monsanto. All of this was at no cost to the cus tomer. Unfortunately, no fluid except ITR's is Arc resistant. Within a month three units had suffered fires. Many customers had to go bark to insurance underwriters and were told they must install additional fire protection systems, sprinklers and Are walls. Monsanto also derided to sell no PCB's for any new heat trans fer syslenis. regardless of applica tion And program was begun to try to convince ail remain ing heat transfer applicants to change over to other fluids. `"Hie sources of ITB's that could affect your business are no longer being supplied," Papageorge de clared. Since PCS'* do not break down easily, they will continue to con taminate the environment for some time, bui not in missive out breaks, he thinks. Source of PCB's in recycled pa per products was the PCB that carbonless copy paper contained, plus some possibly from Inks and adhesives used on boxes ind con tainers. Some small use of PCB's was made in special paper coat ings. All of these products are re cycled and carry PCB's Into the recycled product. "Much PCB contamination being observed to day in cereal and cracker boxes may well be third generation bocauae PCB's are so persistent. It will be with us for some time to come." Monsanto took the lead in alert ing foreign manufacturers of PCB dangers, At first they were polite ly ignored, but now these Arms are taking similar steps, about a year behind Monsanto. Could PCB's continue to be used 43 in food - related applications by companies that import the sub stance? Unlikely, Papageorge said. The foreign companies say they cannot realistically accept such business because of the conse quences. Monsanto ia monitoring imports and has found no evidence of PCB's being sold to domestic companies by foreign firms. There are two PCB producers in Japan, one in England. West Germany, France, Spain and Italy. All are following Monsanto's lead except llaly ("they haven't recog nized that PCB's are a problem") and Spain ("they don't listen"). Monsanto has no way of know- Since PCB's don't break down easily, they wiN continue to con taminate the environment tor tome time, but massive out breaks ere unlikely. ing steps being taken inside the Iron Curtain where there are pro ducers In East Germany, Russia and Kumania. Japan was slew to recognize the problem but is now moving so fssl on regulations and control that they may exceed the concern of (he Scandinavian countries, where PCB's are being banned. Are PCB's being used in heat transfer units to process ingredi- ents such as fish meal in foreign countries? No, Papageorge said. Steam sterilization is being used in all operations outside the U S. Is there danger that PCB's esn scape from old transformers in to the environment when they are being dismantled? Papageorge said all users of such transformers are constantly warned not to dispose of them randomly. They are to be returned to Monsanto for dis posal. Any company found not to be cooperating would not be able to secure equipment containing PCB's in the future. "Anyone causing trouble will be dropped. We can't stand this sit uation any longer." he said. How ere PCB's destroyed? Mon santo has specially built incin erator at St. Louis, believed to be the only one capable of destroy ing PCB's. Heal in the firebox reaches 3.000 degrees F. Near this point, PCB's ignite and "take off with a roar like a Jet engine. The flame is incandescent and one can't look at it long with the naked eye." Products of the combustion art: water, carbon dioxide and muriatic acid. "We can't dispose of muri atic arid straight up the stack but we scrub it. We end up with a weak acid that is neutralized and treated along with other wastes. Monsanto charges a nominal three cents per pound to dispose of PCB's--which is a break-even cost, Papageorge explained. "We don't intend to make profit from our customers' problems." Better performance found in large units LARGER PRODUCTION units gen "And this survey destroys the erally have better bird perform hairiest of myths--that the small ance than small units, according to unit will always outproduce the a study made in England by Mrs. large unit in terms of egg numbers Sue Richardsun, of Manchester The Manchester survey indicates University, as reported In the Au that this is not so. Units with an gust, 1071, iaauo of Poultry In overage number of 6,500 birds dustry. produced five eggs per bird less "Some bigger units surveyed had than 30.000-bird units." marginal pluses in lower feed Mrs. Richardson also found that costs, lower labor and a higher larger units had a lower flock mor margin over costa than the smaller tality than smaller flocks, "con unit,' the article says. trary to what everyone believes." toe IMOUSTRT / JAMlIAtr, im HONS 066597 Poultry Spray stops mites,files and Bee. SMI Poultry Lamridde stops maggots. Pul in end to fly and mitr problente in poultry operel ion* with tho com. hmalmn of Shell Poultry Ijtfvicide and Shell Poultry Spray ... and with no |\il midur to meat or CfRe. Shell Poultry vicidr provide* effective fly mosoot <"' when uord in chtcken manure pit* under cased layot*. Uee it for complete vietdins or for hotepnl control. Slop m._ with Shell Poultry Spray. and ahcontrol Aloe and liee. Apply directly to the nrt . ofthe bird ideol for caod layere or pullaU. Uar il to treat walla, rooeU. liUer and other new in the poultry houae. Il even oontrole peat* that err mirUnt to older miticidea. And ila rtwidual effect avoids roinftrtatfon by costly parasites Shell Poultry Spray --*,-kL m liquid.concentrate and waitable powder; Shell Rmil Poultry Lanrtetdr, avail- -- " able in liquid concentrate \\ i -II nwfMcal Cameany. Aerkultarol D*rt-**' MOMS 066598 HOMI ICONOMISTt welch Greenbrier dwfi prepare testy dilteidn, Surplus? sell more eggs-- promotion people tell how where up tn 12,000 children make art works out of egg cartons, cases and shells--including sculptures. COLOR CARTONS--Full color labels on pulp cartons and pastel colors of pulp cartons help in crease sales. DEVELOP SPACE consciousness for eggs in the dairy case. Most stores underdisplay and under sell and are frequently out of stock. PERSONAL CONTACT -- Pack er saiesmsn must convince the store manager of high profitability and turnover of eggs and offer merchandising advice and help Provide him more than eggs and price. CENTS OFF--When eggs arc plentiful, encourage retailer to use "10 cents off" promotion in stead of cutting price. A SIMPLE SOLUTION to the egg industry1! surplus problems? Sure. Sell more eggs. Pew would argue with that. But how? When overproduction was build ing in mld-1970, Poultry and Egg National Board launched a pro gram to alert supermarket buyers across the country what bargains eggs would be that fall. Surveys indicate (his paid off in many areas ss eggs were featured in more store promotions than usual and observers believe the volume of egg sales Increased. Kraft Poods and PENB, in a post mortem of last April's "Eggs 'n Cheese" promotion, indicate egg sales were up sharply over a year earlier, despite the anti-cholesterol TV attacks that occurred during the Anal week of the promotion. If eggs were a bargain in 1970, they are now a "super bargain" st 1971's much lower prices. United Egg Producers got into the act with a call for retailers and egg producers to feature eggs dur ing two weeks in mid-October. UEP's effort was designed to move a "small" surplus off the market bgjncreoslng sales. It's well docuKled that a small surplus exarts a bearish effect on egg prices far out of proportion. How do you sell more eggs? A panel at the Northeastern Poultry Producers Council's convention ex plored successful methods, after hearing PENB's president, Dr. L. A. Wilhelm, offer 40 ideas of his own. Home economists and state egg promotion specialists, meeting in White Sulphur Springs. W. Va.. swapped ideas on how promotions fared in their respective slates. A capsule of some of the ideas offered in these various events in clude: LOCAL NEWSFAPEH ADS Missouri's egg promoters also ad vertised in state newspapers which reach 1.5 million families. They plsced ads In food sections of Wed nesday and Thursday issues, stress ing the value of eggs, noting that two Large eggs, costing about 10 cents total, constitute a meal for one person. CONTESTS--PENB ties in with the New York Police Athletic League's annua) "egg art show" MCNS 066599 COOKING OMELETS: Phil Doolin, executive secretary, said Mis souri Egg Merchandising Council cooked about 2,500 omelets in a booth for nine days at the state fair, and handed out 10.000 omelet servings to interested persons It demonstrated how to make at least 30 different types of ome lets, showed how easy omelets artprepared and promoted the nutri tional aspects. See photo above TIE-INS-- Work for breakfast displays where eggs are sold side Continued on page 90 tee INOUITIV / JAHU6IT l*l Up to $432 extra profit per 1000 housed birds Today with the cost-price squeeze it is important to make every bird count tor maximum profits. The new Cyanamid Week-AMonth layer program will help. II produced an extra $432 over cost per 1000 birds housed in actual use tests. And it's easy to implement. You simply add 100 grams ol AUREOMYCIN*chloriettacycline per ton ol teed for the first week after housing and the first week of every month. Your extra return will soon be realized from increased egg produc tion. improved feed efficiency and greater natchabilify. The cost--not more than $46 per 1,000 commercial caged layers in production 12 months or $48 per 1,000 broiler breeders in production nine months. Results will vary...no matter how or where you operate the increased production from the Week-A-Month layer program will pay the cost many times over. Help beat the cost price squeeze by starting on the WeekA-Month layer program. See your Cyanamid representative for the complete trial results and a handy Week-A-Month reminder calendar. Or write American Cyanamid Company, P.O. Box 400. Princeton, New Jersey 0BS40. HONS 066600 MILTON CHAMMftLAIN topic of an analysis to be present ed by Milton Chamberlain, presi dent of Seymour Foods, Topeka, Kan. He will give special empha sis to the proposed fowl sell-off plan to adjust egg production, be ginning at 11:30 a.m. After lunch, Dr. Heartsill Wil son, Denver. Colo., will deliver a speech on "The World of the Un common Leader," starting at 2 p.m. Educational programs for the turkey and broiler industries will siso take place Tuesday On Monday. January 24. eduen- lional activities will be cf genet al interest On Wednesday, sessions will highlight waste and Ha usage and producing broilers in cages. Headquarters hotels for the event will be the Marriott Motor Inn and the Sheraton Hotel Court ruling validates cash accounting j. It. PfLOMAN MALCOLM CLKLAND A POULTRYMAN operating un der the cash method of accounting may take as a deductible expense Checkoff, inspection, fowl payments made for feed ingredi ents prior to the end of the fiscal year, even though the ingredients sell-off head SEPEA topics I are not used until the year fol lowing. Dismissal in November of a EGG CHECKOFF legislation, up* coming shell egg inspection and ihe proposed fowl sell-off bill high mandatory egg checkoff will be discussed by Malcolm Cleland. Robcoe Hill Hatchery, Lincoln, Neb., countersuit by the U. S Govern ment against Gaddis Breeder Farms, Inc., Forrest. Miss , con light topics on the egg program at at 10 a.m. Cleiand is chairman of firmed that the practice is con the Southeastern "International'' Poultry and Egg National Board. sistent with the cash method of Poultry Convention, January 23 "Putting (he 'Sell' in Eggs" is handling receipts and disburse 2ft, at Atlanta, Ga. the topic of a talk by Harry Trent- ments. Herman 0. Jones, Herman 0. Enlerpriaet. Jacksonville. Fla., will preside over the egg program which begins at 9:45 a.m. on Tues day, January 25. in the mettanine of the Civic Center. At 9.45 a.m., Connor Kennett, deputy director of USDA's Poul try Division. CAMS, will bring upto-date information about shell egg inspection that will begin July 1, 1972. Legislative objectives of the bath, Nulaid Foods, San Leandro. Calif , starting at 10.30 a.m. He will question whether current pric ing methods are suited to the com position of the market. At 11 a.m., J. R. Feldman, JAR Packers, Winnipeg, Canada, will explain Canada's egg program. Feldman has served as egg chair man of Ihe Canadian Poultry and Egg Council and is a recogmzed Canadian egg leader. "Tha Washington Scone" is the The U. S. District Court, South ern District Miss . Jackson, ruled last June in favor of Gaddis Breed er Farms, Inc , which had sued for recovery of additional income taxes, penalty and Interest when the Internal Revenue Service had disallowed certain expense pay ments. These involved (1 ] pay ments made in the fiscal year end ing April 30, 1967, for corn and soybean oil meal, mnsl of whn-ii Continued on pope 4H 46 raa imhismv ><> HONS 066601 SELL E99S So Hy-Line Layers Produce Valuable Ones at Low Feed Cost. Wi'r* fMd-tavlng Hy-Lint Ityert won * nwit* ytnti looWno qutpttfnl uweeNurr. If fv*f won't h*v* to worh u Herd. You sell eggs. the less they cost you to pro duct, tht more you moke selling 'em. So. Geneticist R 0. Buckingham and hit teHow Hy-Lint scientists brotd Hy-Llr> pullsts to cut your costs of production. Since feed is your biggest cost, they cut it... by brooding a small-bodied layer .. a quarter-pound to a half-pound smaller then other brands of layers. Every querter-pound less body weight per bird could save you $1,400 (20 T ot feed) far every 10.000 Hy-Lino layers over their lifetime. Make that up to $2,490 (39 T) if you recycle your layers and keep them up to 30 months of age. To gat the teed saving with Hy-Line leyars you don't have to give up e thing.. certainly not egg vatut- Tough sheila, practically spot tree interiors, and largs egg size could bring you 28c more per bird for the eggs from your Wy-tine layers. Weigh some Hy-Une birds and other brands ot the same age or ask your local Hy-Line representative to taka a look at lead records of local Hy-Line flocks. You'll sea how low lead costs par dozen combined with high livability, high egg production, and ex ceptional egg value make Hy-Lina pullets the logi cal choice tor your next brood. tS tWftUtUI / MNUAftT. OHijLLne CHICKS Dm MoIom, Iowa SOSOS MONS 066602 42 COURT RULING Continued from page 46 wn used in the following year, and (2) payments for certain items which IRS considered capita) ex penditures. On October 20,1006, Gaddis had contracted to purchase from Cargilt, Inc., 420,000 bushels of corn under a pricing formula confirmed by Cargill on November 1, 1066. About 60,000 bushels were deliv ered by April 30, 1967, and the balance was delivered in May and June. All was paid for before April 30. 1007. Had the contracts not been bind ing, the court pointed out, Gaddis could have saved over 321,000 on 102,000 bushels if the contracts had been canceled and the corn bought locally at the lower prices prevailing in May. 1907. The pay ments made prior to Apri) 30. 1967, therefore, could net be con strued as deposits in any sense. The situation was similar on the purchase of soybean oil meai. On Apri) 24, 1967, Gaddis contracted with l'aymastur Oil Co. for 1.000 tons of soybean oil meal at 984.50 per ton to be delivered in May. It was paid for on April 29. and delivery was made in May and June. Tha court noted that "the total storage capacity of the Gaddis feed mill was 25,000 bushels of corn and less than 100 tons of soy bean oil meal, making it impossi ble for the plaintiff to accept de livery of, and adequately and safe ly store, the full amount of the feed It had contracted to pur chase." Gaddis' daim was granted for refund of taxes paid on the 3228, 476.90 expense disallowance for the payment on corn and soybean oil meal during the fiscal year end ing Apri) 30, 1967, together with legal interest. In a second action, Gaddis Breeder Forms, Inc., claimed a re fund on taxes paid on 914,232.81 for equipment and supplies which IRS had not allowed as deducti ble. The court agreed with IRS that purchases of three incinera tors should be regarded as capital expenditures, but found that the other items, none of which cost more than 98.51 each, constituted expendable supplies. Items which the court said were deductible consisted of water troughs, hang ing feeder*, hoses, valves, egg bas kets, piping, nests and accessory packs, each of which had a useful Ufe of no more than 12 months and which were used to keep the buildings and equipment in good repair. Where these items had been placed in new buildings on new farms, the plaintiff had handled them as capital expenditures. ILLINOIS POULTSY SIMINAS panel members <HkuMx the role of lode pendent producers st Bloemmiton were, from left: Carl Nethert, lUieCan Purina Co., Bloomington; Fted Mun roe. Monroe-Home Juice Egg Co., Plainheld; George Kfbert, president of Illi nois Poultry and Hatchery Federation, MontleeMe. and Henry Marlowe, Mar lowe Feed and Itatchery. Huntley. CME changes futures contract REACTING TO CRITICISM by United Egg Producers, governors of Chicago Mercantile Exchange have voted two significant changes in the fresh, shell egg futures contract favorable to the producer element. Warehouse delivery was elimi nated in favor of delivery from approved plants, recognising that eggs no longer move into storage. Quality standards were raised to reduce the Impact of "junk" eggs on market price. Quality specification was raised to 90% MCNS 066603 from 85'r cm Large, white Grade A eggs. Discounts of a half cent per dozen are placed on lots of 87 5 to 89.9'y Grade A and one cent per doten on eggs grading 85 0 to 87.4% The trading unit is 750 rases with an average net delivered weight of ot least 40 pounds, with none less than 45 pounds. Negotiations end NEGOTIATIONS between Scy mour Foods and Cal-Maine Foods for sale of Seymour's food division have been ctiled off Seymour. Topeka, Kan.-based manufacturer of special egg processing machin ery and processor of egg products, is s wholly owned subsidiary of Waltham Industries. Birds spread TB TUBERCULOSIS of birds spreads to other animals and humans, ac cording to a Michigan State Uni versity microbiologist. Dr Mailer L. Mallmann. Avian TB cause* damage very similar to that caused by human TB. he said. Last year, 129,000 of approxi mately ISO million spent fowl slaughtered were condemned for suspicion of TB Infection "Chickens are not I he health hazard they could be if it were not for the practice of cleaning out the laying hens before they be come unproductive,'' said Ur Mall mann. Another good reason why the industry should slaughter its old er birds, added to the long list of more vital ones. Montana complex THREE LAYING HOUSES of 40. 000-bird capacity each, a brooder grow house and an egg processing plant comprise the layer project being built at Townsend. Mont., by Woodcrest Egg Ranch, Inc . Riverside, Calif It is being built to supply eggs to Safeway stores in Montana. Woodcrest has been pro ducing and packing for Safeway te IMOUIFIr / MMVAiY IW The TWINVAX" cocktail. 2 jiggers of bronchitis, 1 jigger of Newcastle, and just enough of a jolt to stimulate immunity. MOMS 0 6 6 6 0 S Any rlurken whn gets enough of this stuff inside ium gel* a special kind of protection. Besides being a highiv effective Newcastle vaccine. TWINVAX is a polyvalent bronchitis vaccine. Containing bolli the Conn, and Mass strains ol Immchths viruses, il stimu lates a multiple response to earnnation - helping to block infection from a wide variety of field strains Ol course, the B- 1 Newcaatle strain we use is naturally mild. Hut at least one ni the bronchitis viruses isn't. So we've specially attenuated and NLWVAX* - other lop-iiiilch that virus to the point where il gives products lo meet vnor spn i.il needs a nice little jolt inatead of a great We make them all with the big kirk. same painstaking care, with (he same As if that weren't enough, wc balance of low rrartion and high produce TWINVAX Irom rigidly-lesirri mmumlv. wilh the came concern lor S-6 PI'LO iree and Cofal- negative your vaccination program flocks. And alter we make it. wc make So when you're looking lor sure it's still as free as the flocks il something to serve your feathered ramp 1mm. We make TWINVAX for use as friends, remember us Wc serve the best drinks in town American ' initial vaccination or revarrination of Scientific Laboratories Division ol broilers, pullets and breeders We Schcring Corporation USrA. also make DUBIVAX* BRONVAX* bOOiaitgi-Si , Bloomfield, N.) The mosl lasting protection lhal mildness can make. LANTOM SMITH SEARCH FOR FACTS Commission drafts plan for attack GATHERING THE FACTS and then finding a way to disseminate them to the American public was the objective undertaken last sum* mer by the National Commission on Egg Nutrition. "We believe we have the facts new," said Blanton Smith, Nashvilla, Tena., chairman of the fiveman commiasion originally found ed as the Egg Cholesterol Commit, lion as the last official act of Amer ican Poultry and Halchery Fed eration before its merger with the Institute of American Poultry In dustries. APHF funded 130,000 to be used for two years' work ($15, 50 000 per year). United Egg Pro ducers agreed to match the amount and other trade associations have been asked to help finance the `crusade for facts." Smith, appointed by the UEP. was joined on the commission by tour prominent industry leaders; Mai Cleland, Hill Hatchery, Lin coln, Neb., representing Poultry and 08 National Board; Harry Trembath, Pacific Growers, San Leandro, Calif., representing Pa cific Egg and Poultry Aas'n; Ed Murphy, Diamond National Corp., New York, representing North eastern Poultry Producers Coun cil, and Hugh Purnell. Purnell's Pride, Tupelo, Miss., representing Southeastern Poultry and Egg Aas'n. Though the Poultry and Egg In stitute of America, created by the APHF-IAPI merger, is not direct ly represented. Purnell is chair man of the organization. Smith and Trembath are directors and all five are members of PE1A. Smith and his committee un dertook an energetic, thorough search for (acts relating to eggs, cholesterol and heart disease "Without facts, we could do nothing but talk, and there had been too much talk without facts to back it up," Smith said. Their search led them to a meeting with Dr. Campbell Moses, medical di rector of the American Heart Ast'n, and to interviews with not ed heart specialists and research ers all over the country. Smith began to accumulate ad ditional data to a file on the cho lesterol question which he had personally begun to compile many years ago, The commiasion dispelled many falac premises and unsupported contentions. The idea that eggs wars indicted in heart disease be cause of fata content was quickly blown apart. In the confrontation with Dr. Moses, Smith drew from him an admission that eggs have never been indicted for their fats content, which Moses admitted "in. significant." AHA had attacked eggs solely HONS 066605 for their cholesterol content, he explained Moses alio expressed shock that the egg industry had suffered serious Ananrial losses due to AHA publicity and. especial ly, following the two national tele vision heart disease specials last spring. One of the nation's leading heart researchers told the com mission there are a certain mim ber of people--perhaps as high as 10% of the population--who in herit high cholesterol blood levels (300 or more) from both tides of their families and. also, are subjc-1 to heart attacks and strokes rather early in life. These persons stand a good chance of being crippled by. or dying from, heart disease or relat ed troubles by the time they are 50. Many are stricken in their 30's and 40's. It is very difficult to lower their blood cholesterol levels. On one of the TV specials, it was stated that men under 45 with a serum cholesterol level of more than 230 are three times more likely to die of a heart attack or stroke than men with normal cho lesterol levels. "Tins is true. ' Smith said, "but it is true only because those who have the inherited high cholesterol and the inherited high risk of heart attack load the statistics The implication is that if the serum cholesterol were lowered in time by diet or drugs, the risk of ;i heart attack would be less. This, of course, is not true." When AHA'i Moses wee asked. "On what scientific evidence does AHA bate its recommendation to the American public lo limit their egg consumption to three eggs per week?" he Anally replied; "Clinical opinion.'' "This verified our feeling that there was no such scientific evi dence," Smith said. "As you know, most of the talk we have heard about this has lo do with whether or not eating eggs will raise the cholesterol level in the blood serum of a person From Continued on pope 52 tee wtvntT / A Dependable, Long-Lasting Solution To Sbur Manure Disposal Problem Swtn vil ago. Thu'* when tin Coiman Company began anginwring manure thief*. On the day* whan molt of us askad "What's that?".) Today, lhay'ra still in the business, with more ixperience than any other manufacturer And they're stHI building them to last. Sure, a Coiman unit costs a little more than some. And we at Anderson readily admit it. But we're elso quite proud of its quality, in low maintenance, in yeer-efltr-yeer service. And workability that helps it pay for itself. A single Coiman Manure Orier converts waste from as many es 120.000 birds in s 24-hour operational day. Additional units equip you for flocks of any size. For years to come. Direct purchase, or leasing is aveilsbls to qualified applicants. Make sure your first menure'driar is by Colmen from Anderson. It'll be a long time-before you look for a replacement. > iNMitrar / anderson) Profnutvo Product* tor Afrtculturt x eoanunr, inc. t. o e* inn imwmi, m. uiji im If you went to know how this unit may pay for itself in lea then one year's time, cell Norm Clirer at (ST2) 424*2929. MONS 066606 SEARCH FOR FACTS Continued from pope SO the studlet we have seen. In only a very small percentage of the population will the ingestion of eggs increase serum cholesterol levels, and these people have an abnormal condition. "However, we now know that the key information we were looking tor Is: there is absolutely no scientific evidence that indi cates lowering serum cholesterol through diet or drugs will reduce the risk of a heart attack." The commission's research has dearly indicated that most o( the anti-egg publicity over the put six years hu originated with two men: Dr. Frederick Stare, chair man of Harvard University's nu trition department, and Dr. Jere miah Stemler, formerly with the Chicago public health department and on the medical faculty at Northwutern University. The commission hu document ed the fact that Dr. Stare, by his own admission, hu been a paid consultant for the cereal Industry for IS to 18 years. Ha came to the detenu of cereal before a Senate consumer subcommittee In mid1970 after Robert B. Choate, Jr., a former Nixon advisor on hun ger, had described cereals as "empty calories" that "fatten but do little to prevent malnutrition." Chute used charts to expose the nutritional deficiencies of most cereals and illustrated how cereal companies spend many millions of dollars on advertising burned at young children. The result is that many families substitute sugarcoated nutritional "nothings" at the expense of nutritious foods, such as eggs. Dr. Stare wu rushed in to de fend cereals, but the most signifi cant thing he could say in their defense wu that, when served with milk (which no one denlu hu good nutritional qualities), cereal providu a good deal of nu trition. Dr. Stamfer went much further than that when CBS gave him a national television audience on its "80 Minutes" show. In a super market where he attacked the high-protein animal foods such u meat and dairy products. Dr. Stamler held up a carton of eggs and declared they should be tutored only to the function of "making chickens." The commission is carefully doc umenting the statements of thus two men, along with their respec tive roles in promoting the anti egg publicity In AHA and many publications. Dr. Stamler's ma jor role in drafting the report of the Inter-Society Commission for Heart Disease Resources is well known. This study, financed by the Department of Health, Educa tion and Welfare, wu able to cite no new research on the heart ques tion, yet came to conclusions, de spite lack of evidence, that the government should undertake a program of trying to alter Ameri cans' diets by reducing the amount of cholesterol consumed. Armed with fade, the commis sion plans to formulate a program to take this story to tho American public. A number of plans havt been proposed, but all are still under study. But tbs gathering of facte will continue, said Smith. "Wo must know we are on solid ground be fore we proceed on anything." he declared. "Otherwise we can do our cause more barm than good." The day when It may have been advisable to remain silent on the cholesterol question hu long passed, Smith believes. "We need to got this question out Id tho open because we have a real story to tall," ho aaoorted. a SALMET SALES OPPORTUNITY Harrell Bennett Sales Inc. Covers the Southeast, Southwest and Midlands Agents Needed Balance of United States Soma Sabs Territories Open in Harrell Bennett Sales Area Contact: HARRELL BENNETT SALES INC. Box 8716 NASHVILLE, TENN. 37211 Phone-. 615-832 0753 MCNS 06660? I6S inouJTIY / jANUAtr tty* 1 Why pvt up with wt mtnvrv? S*lm*t has drip trough running under it* water pip* and drinker* to catch any tpillag*. IGG INOUjmr ' JAMIM.Y 1.71 When Lud Hudgins Decided to Automate, Why Did He Choose SALMET? Why did Lud Hudgins, manager of Winterpock Farms, Winterpock, Vo., decide to install the Saltnet 21-day automated cage system in a converted and enlarged house of 27,000 layers and a new 45,000-layer house? "We found this equipment superior to anything else on the mar ket. Its sound construction looks like it will last. We like the feeding system especially. The traveling hoppers can feed 45,000 birds in 17 minutes. Birds are easily accessible. The three and fnur-deck cages provide such high density that we have 45,000 birds in a 40x300-foot house. Our cost for the building itself was 50% of that of houses using other companies' equipment. Equip ment is supported on a concrete floor and can be easily installed in older type houses. We think the belt collection system, coupied with a round slat conveyor system to the egg room--allowing eggs to be transported up a slight grade without rolling back-- results in the fewest dirties of any automated system. With the 21-day automatic cleanout system, manure stored between cages nir dries down to about 50% before being removed, so we have little odor, few flies and few handling problems. We feel we are being fairly treated by Bennett Sales and Salmet personnel as far as maintenance and service are concerned." Harrell Bennett Sales Inc. P. O. BOX 871 & NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE 37211 Telephone 615-256-4578 Tele. 554 496 HONS 066608 53 Ago of hon affocts Ibumon Haight Summary: As a hen ages, the eggs laid have a lower albumen height. The same la true as an egg ages. In the latter instance the pH has been found to increase and a close relationship with eggs from a single flock between albu men height and pH can be found. This research emphasises that as a hen ages the eggs produrrd have lower pH values rather than high er values as might be suspected from the lower albumen height values. Data are presented on eggs from several sources, verify ing the validity of this observa tion. Comment: This report is further evidence that the egg it a very complex structure about which our knowledge is limited. icntt nw Tost tolls if oggs oro pasteurized Summery: An automated en zyme activity test was devised, measuring (he degree of heat treat ment given chicken egg white by the pasteurization process. The teat ia baaed on measurement of para-nitrophenol reieaaed by the ensymes in egg white from p-nitrophenyl N-acetyl-beta-D-gJucosamlnide before and after pasteuriza tion. The kinetics and thermit processing parameters for thermal inactivation of the enzyme activ ity in egg white have been deter mined by uee of the Technicon Auto Analyzer (35 egg samples per hour). A 60% inactivation of 54 ------- -- beta * N-acetylglucosamidase activ ity upon heating appears to be a suitable indication that egg white has been held at an adequate timetemperature combination to meet USDA recommendations. Comment: The test should be useful to egg product quality con trol laboratories and to USDA in spection personnel to insure that the egg products are being given the heat treatment intended. Cholostorol studied in commercial oggs Summary: The cholesterol con tent of pooled samples of eggs. 12 or more eggs per sample, was de termined for eggs produced in sev eral geographic locations. Strain and hen's age differences were al so checked. Ail eggs were market eggs from layers of known ages, breeds, management systems, feed sources and geographic location. The total cholesterol per egg in creased with increasing age of lay ers This increase was due to in creased egg size as cholesterol con centration in Uie eggs did not change with age of hens. Eggs from broiler breeds con tained significantly more choles terol and had greater cholesterol concentration than did eggs laid by commercial layer strains. Caged layers tended to produce eggs with lower cholesterol concentrations but differences were not signifi cant at the 5% level. No differ ences were observed among com mercial layer strains or as due to geographic location or feed source. Turkey, duck and quail eggs had HONS 066609 higher concentrations of choles terol than did chicken eggs CiwmmWi From these data, the chance to reduce chicken egg cholesterol significantly through breeding, feeding or management practices appears to be negligible To market eggs more successfully we will have to shift our emphasis from such negatives as cholesterol to positive considerations of vita min, protein and mineral content CAUH--I dill * <*(* Mil I., (' I ly.t I 0 Fmii,. Si--. !>, , . saini'iK ' Nuw instrument to chuck albumun Summary: An instrument was developed and is described ttiiit speeds up the measurement of ok albumen height and minimizes ct rors by using electrical rnndtictiv ity aa the point of contact and ,i digital display made reading ensicr. One problem still not solved is the accumulation of albumen <>n (he movable leg of the micrometer Measurement speed was approxi mately doubled. In the mstm ment described automatic transfer of readings to an automatic data recording device was not included but such an addition could be eas ily made. Comment: Anyone measuring large numbers of eggs for albu men height should investigate this improved instrument. The authors did not recognise that a micronic ter reading directly in Haugh units is on the market. It would be pos sible to get a program for a com puter to convert directly from height and weight information on eggs to Haugh units. Muthod uvaluutes solids quality Summary: Fgg white and whole egg solids were stored at 5. 24 and 43 degrees C. for up to four months. The flevor and aroma changes known to occur In egg Continued on pope 50 M* <Houm / januai* mi F Sustained production of more marketable eggs. Just one reason why more than 1 out of every 5 pullets housed Talk to a representative from the Babcock franchised hatchery nearest you. Look at the records... and learn how Babcock Breeding can reduce your costs and give you more marketable eggs A rapraaantatlva from or* of our 4fl U.S. tranchtart halchorfca wMI b* flirt to vMt wHh you. Lot him ahow you how Babcock galnrt It* wortd-wida roputotton m tho broadar of "Tho Buitnawman'a Bird." Lot him fllvo you tho facta. ahow you tba r*corda, and work with you In dovafopJng tho moot profltabt* programfor your ooaration MUMO *T*IJ PWtCMRT. INC. Teem, tall. MW omuMOM i0lma0cw.oO.cwxrxatoo. rurnumi ir, me. courownA i*mobommi mttqnov me. Nui e*m. etm ni.n rts y. CM*. 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UNO (iM07imsoCto'-etlMormMi IwI.m cmwuh* OHIO 'W f mu mirmrcMit eo ill (emu. mow imhm. <m* tint MtWM Mruot mtcMn 7 0. Oe* m. MvMe. Orecei (to4 moons HercwtT leococa remM, me. m ni iitni. n. itxj ihomm wen mm tout lemur, n two imm 4e.lt. iouw oaoota siMnqo MTCMM m n oewitr. Muchca. s o inn TtNWtMl TtNcoMio ram * micwm Ml l, CUieieeo. lea* )7)|I eiwmior Haraaav >o. om ijoi. RMemiie. rent rm rtXAs Mmo1msllMmtcMor ( mo, me ie (mi >ee*s tenue n*rc*m l it teeMHiiri.uteiMM rmuiNi* outtr xaou HiTctHM me 7.0 e> mu UiptelletMHe. * 4tWI taAIHIMOTON mkmmm'i Hercm*r wtM vmoMiie MKMIn-DvTi,ttrrMmICHtir WICOHIIM wcfri hmchiit > 7i it rem TINY'S CORNER y DR. L. A. WJLHIUM. President Poultry Mid Egg National Board ignorance is a dangerous thing any homemaker today who has not heard the cholesterol story and that "eggs are bad for you." The egg Industry needs to have the USDA study updated. The egg industry needs to know the opin ions of the homemakers in the 1970's. This knowledge it necessary if a turnaround in egg acceptability is to be achieved. EVERY EGGMAN, w well U ev eryone else associated with the egg business, knows exactly why egg consumption has declined since 1950, been reasonably steady since 1960, and is "about the same a*" the prewar 1930's. Of course, we eat up the eggs produced! That's not what breaks egg producers. It's the price they receive for the eggs the consum ers oat! How about (he homemaker's use of and opinions nbout, eggs? Too much of the meager knowl edge available is baaed on the sam ple of one ... t my wife, my neigh bor, ! know a guy who says . . .) or on research data at frost 10 yeart old! Savaral private consumer studies have been made. These to our knowledge include: (11 accepta bility of carton designs and colors; (2) acceptability of some syn thetic or altered egg products; (3) acceptability of shell - less hardcooked eggs; (4) acceptability of a trademarked egg selling at a higher price and promoted. Rut none of these extended and updated the information brought oul in the 1959 study, first pub lished in July, 1960, by the Mar ket Development Branch, Agricul tural Marketing Service, I'SDA. This study noted: Although egga arc used main, ly aa a breakfast food, 40i of in dividuals do not eat them regular ly. Most of (hose who do not eat eggs regularly simply don't like eggs, so when taste factors do op erate, they are negative. Homemakers view eggs pri marily aa related to health, the tea moimir / MMUAtY, im most healthful of common break fast foods. The level of energy required for activity generally governs the estimate of the sixe of breakfast required. A large breakfast included two eggs; a medium breakfast, one egg. If people could be convinced that they need a "good breakfast," eggs would almost outomAficaify be included. The "morning rush" was the most important reason given for not having breakfast eggs. Most homemakers thought that "eggs are no trouble to fix --at any meal." For a small group, mostly older men and women, health fac tors operate against the use of eggs 4 Most who "had heard any thing lately about eggs and health" were aware of favorable informa tion. 4 Homemakers did not report a change in the total number of eggs used per week "as compared to the past two or three years." Price was not a limiting fac tor in egg consumption, 4 Families in (he higher socio economic-educational levels were more prone toward the "small" breakfast--and fewer eggs. Ilamambar that was 12 years ago! There are more "older men and women" now. Both the income and educational levels arc higher in 1971. The "morning rush" is prob ably more intense in 1971. There are more "working mothers" em ployed outside the home. It would be doubtful if there is COMING EVENTS January 13: Pennsylvania Poultry Fed eration banquet. Harrtsburi. Pa. January 13-14: Western "quickie" Sana Inar. PEIA Production Divtakm. The Admiralty, Port Ludlow, Wash. January IVi Missouri Bh Day. Min aouri Egg Industrie* Aas'n. Hamad* Iim, Columbia, Mo January 33-34: Southeastern Poultry A Egg Aw'n convention and exhibition. Civic Center. Atlanta, Ga. January 34: Poultry Day, New Jrraey Farmera Week (January 2330). Noaaau Inn, Princeton. N. J. January Jl-Fabruacy 3: Cornell Asti cultural Waate Management Confer enre. Hotel Syracuse. Syracuse. N Y February 4-S: Midwestern Poultry Fed eralton convention. Leamington Ho tel. Minneapolis, Minn February 7-11: First New Zealand-heM Australasian Poultry Selene* Con vention. Hotel Inter - Continental. Auckland. N. Z. February I: South Dakota Poultry An n, Holiday Inn. Mitchell. S. I) February 9-11: Georgia Nutrition Con ference. Marriott Motor Hotel. Atlan ta. Ga. February 31-33: Egg Grading School, Purdue University, i-afayette, Ind February TV MUreh 1: PEIA Started Pullet Seminar, Hilton Ian, Airport, SI. loui, Mo. March tt.lSi PKVAfWntem Poultry Congees* "Supershow '72," Town A Country Hotel. San Diego, Calif. March 3940: Colorado Poultry Institute, Colorado State University. Fori Mol llns. Colo. Anrll 11-13: Weatern Poultry Disease Conference, University ol California, Davis. April 12-14: PEIA Fact Finding Con (ercncc, New Orleans. La. April 13: Sixth California Poultrv Health Symposium. University ol Cal ifornia. Davis. April 14-14: Georgia Poultrv Fetters Don sprint meeting. Holiday Inn. Cailawav Gardena, (Ji. April 33-33: Florida Poultry Day*. Floci da Poultry Federation, Disney World, Orlando, Fla. April 14-17: Poultry and Egg National Board annual meeting. Regency Hyatt House. Chicago. 111. April 34: Georgia Commercial Egg Sem inar, Gainesville, Ga. April 27: Georgia Commercial Egg Sem inar, Douglas, Ga. 59 MQNS 066614 DR. ATKINS ON DIET Continued from page 31 you add milk that's more carbohydrate, and when you add sugar you've really added aomething. If you don't havo eygs, maybe you will eat Dan ish pastry or a doughnut. Thai, self-evidently, is much worse from any standpoint of health you could men tion. What you're really saying, if you tell people not to eat so many eggs, is to eat more carbohydrates. When you tell a person to eat more carbohydratea, you're telling his body to produce more insulin. When you have his body doing this, you're going to pro duce more heart disease than lets. I propose, therefore, that America needs a new, completely revolutionary diet. We should go back to the diet of the 17th, 18th and 18th centuries be/ore we had heart disease. It's a dtet very, very low in re fined carbohydrates, and which contains eggs, meal and other protein. ] think the egg and poultry industry should take a much more active role, rather than accept the fart that eggs have become the community whipping boil and scapegoat. I think you should fight back. If the iff Industry will sponsor some research, I can almost guarantee it will be very pleased with the results. It would find that studies will strong ly support the view that high egg consumption is. basically, an improvement over the diet we eat today Just see what other industries are doing The sugar industry has no difficulty in promoting its prod ucts and it has a product that, I think. Is In the same position the tobacco industry was in 20 years ago: knowing they have a killer substance and trying to cover it up. They have done an effective Job. Yat, the agg Industry, with a vary banaficia), nutritious substance--a wonderful product--is taking a beating because it is not fighting bark. a SELL MORE EGGS Continued from page 44 by side with bacon or ham. Pro mote them together, such as "Ba con and eggs for six--only $1.25." END DISCOUNTING --Rather than reduce price, egg suppliers should offer "advertising incen tives" to retailers to advertise eggs In their food page ads. Discount ing frequently is passed on to con sumers in lower prices, yet does not increase number of egp sold or gross profits. It costs egg sup plier money without moving prod uct. OKLAHOMA Egg Council partici pated in s booth at the Oklahoma Food and Fiber Show at the Tulsa Slate Fair. In a drawing, Mrs. Jean Stem, of Tulsa, was the winner of one dozen eggs per week, present ed by the egg council. OEC also participated in egg promotions with booths at the Oklahoma Res taurant Ass'n convention, Retail Grocers convention and the state school lunch convention. TAPE RECORDING of cackling hen, played back at egg display, attracts attention and increases volume of sales and profits. VARIED PACKS--Offer the con sumer half-dozen sizes, plus two tnd three-dozen packs. This could be tied in with mass displays of loose eggs in "pick your own" manner. RESEARCH DIGEST Continued from page 54 solids during storage could be followed by using the gas-liquid chromatogram. Changes In car bonyl and free fatty acids were related to lost in functional and flavor attributes of the egg prod ucts. As the carbonyl content of the products increased, cake vol ume decreased. The carbonyl con tent maximum limit on egg white solids was 100 p.p.m. and on whole egg solids was 1,200 p.p.m. Comment: In those laboratories equipped with gas-liquid chroma tography, the equipment can be utilized to give objective methods for egg solids quality evaluation. Jm. Mln**t*a.* *4-Nrt M* on` Ufoioldli Scbu mt* ll*~am>*> lie- C**f*6 il*** U<u>*n.l. f o-l CUliio, Cl Exhibit seminar A SEMINAR for poultry industry exhibitors will be held March I at Slallcr Hilton Hotel, 401 Seventh Ave.. New York City, from I to 0 p.m. Sponsored by Northeastern Poultry Producers Council, il was postponed from November 30 Robert Letwin will conduct the seminar on subjects such as estab lishing exhibit objective* and eval uating results, designing exhibits and training personnel to achieve objectives, and pre-show attend, ance promotions. To enroll, contact NEPPCO. .12:' Oxford Valley Rd.. Fairless Hills, P. 18030. * Some taxes due "OFF THE FARM" halcherics must pay federal unemployment tax. effective January 1. 1872. ac cording to the Internal Revenue- Service. Such hatcheries are inter preted to be thoso that do not fall under the "agricultural labor" exemption as outlined in Section 3306 of the Employment Amend ments of 1870. Affected hatcheries must pay I la- lax on the first $4,200 earned by each employee in 1872 and subse quent years Me iNMitiiv / jArtUMr. m HONS 066615 We believe DEKALB birds wOl lay 15% more eggs for you inrneir ust three months. And more marketable eggs over all. That's because our birds ara bred for high, sustained lay. Records from 191 DeKalb flocks across the country show an average of 271 eggs laid par hen.* This average is achieved, not by an early peak followed by a sharp drop, but by maintaining high pro* duction over the entire length of lay. In the 13th month of production (72 weeks of age), DeKalb birds are bred to lay at 60% and to continue a high rate of lay to the end of the cycle. The result: 15% more eggs in the last 3 months. Ask for the facts about DeKalb layers, bred to convert teed efficiently Into highly marketable eggs -- and more of them. DEKALB BREEDS SUCCESS wo iNoum / MNiiAitr, im EQUIPMENT/SERVICES UNVtIUNO of the Inline CondilkmtnR Tower, maniifwiured by fMC Corp., will laka bIm* at tha Jan uary Southeastern Convention. Atlanta, Oa. Live arlion Muipment and action-filled audio viaual presentation of the KMC MS will attract visitor* to witiM-M a blanket irl t-gg* rising above the booth toward the celling. The 800-square-fool display has i (win towrn, 18 feet high, demonatrating continuoua Row pgg cooling and albumin clearing. AAK COOK CO. haa announced a new poultry coop thai combines advantagea of seasoned hardwood and a super lough plaatie. Named the Gray Eagle for the color of ita two exterior coal' inga of gray plaatie. It ia constructed of areeonrd oak. II does not absorb moisture and may be cleaned with steam or high pressure water. Write the company at 109 Gee Si.. Jonesboro, Ark. 79401. OALUMYC1N Feed Grade products on a aOgm. continuoua level for layers have received federal approval, accord' ing to the Agricultural and Veterinary Products niviaitm nf Ahhntt labora tories. Abbott Perk, North Chicago, III. MOM The clearance allows Gallimycin. an antibiotic feed additive, to be used ronttnuousiy, rather than intermittent ly, as aid to increaaing egg production and feed efficiency. AUTOMATIC, directional radiant heel ers have bam introduced by Kaicio Electronics Co.. Ml Tilghman St.. Altootowa. Pa. lBioa. Capable of han dling uu to 92 KW of healing, the spe cially designed heaters can 6a cleaned with a hoee. The company says the healing system ia applicable for chick brooding, in cages or on the floor. Solidstate circuitry in the eontrollera are aaitJ to result In power savinga up to ANTIBIOTIC to prevrnl bimI treat a broad spectrum of poultry diseases ia available for use in feed mis from Vineland Laboratories. SMS E. Landis Ave., Vineland, N. J. 08900. Called Vi-Mycin Feed Premix-M. the formula tion help* control chronic respiratory diaeaaa complex, blue comb and syno vitis in chickens. II ia also available in powder form for use in drinking water. COMPACT AUTOMATIC blood detector, shown above, and a plaatie flats washer are two new products that will high light the Diamond Systems display at the SEPISA exhibit In Atlanta. January Z3-9U. The blood detector can be added to an Misting line without disturbing ihe aetup. It arrepta egg* on a 12 or 3 wide baaLa and detection is achieved through use of one simple set of printed circuit electronic*. The washer with self-contained hot water heating iyetam can be installed aa part of the VariSprrad loader operation or operated in dependently out n( line. 64 remitting from poultry breeding end rowing, is available from Vineland Laboratories. SMS E. Lendie Ave.. Vine land. N. S. 08940 Vineland alao haa a product called Seal-Squad, a powder 41*. infectant which ia said to destroy dis ease organisms such a* Marek't. Gum boro, fowl pox, laryngptracheitis, New castle and bronchitis. HI-gJtON 8I.IN vaccina, an effective aid in control of bronchitis and New castle disease, bee been announced by the Agricultural and Vetarinary Prod ucts Division of Abbott Laboratories. Intended for vaccination of broilers and replacement putleta already possessing a high parental immunity, HI - Bran works to insure positive immunity by overriding parental Immunity. IM8R08NCY POWIft STATION ia a module unit in a prefabricated build ing completely assembled at Winpower wire up components. The company claims more precision, lower total cost, better efficiency and longer lile. HONS 066618 California hit by `hot' strain THE FEAR that the dreaded, "hut strain" Asiatic Newcastle disease might spread to commercial poul try flocks became a reality in Cali fornia in mid-December. Previous ly, Ihe highly viicerotropir. veingenic disease had been confined to commercial Rocks in the western Texsut-New Mexico area and to a few imported pet birds A 33-squire-mile area near Fon tana, Calif., containing up to two million birds, was quarantined after an outbreak on a pullet farm. After 8,000 of 22,000 pullets died by 10 weeks of age, state and fed eral agencies ordered the remain ing birds destroyed and buried on the premises. The birds had been vaccinated fur Newcastle al four weeks. This outbreak followed the wip ing out of s hobbyist Rock nearby where only three of 100 birds sur vived. In the desert area around Lancaster in Los Angeles County, 4.000 of 12,000 fryer chickens died by eight weeks and Ihe remainder were also destroyed and buried. Fleckewners were partially it demnified for losses by state at. I federal funds. These ranches were ordered cleaned and disinfected and no poultry will be allowed on them for 30 days. Feed mills, not wanting to be implicated in spread of the highly contagious disease, were washing and disinfecting trucks. When this issue went to proas, more serious outbreaks wenfeared. A flock was reported to be* affected halfway between Ihe <lc slroyed pullet flock and an Olson Karma' operation, one and a half miles away, which contains 2B0.0fit> layers. Poultrymen in the area were urged to revaccinate all birds with the B, Newcastle strain. Re strictions were being drafted in Washington to prohibit importa tion of exotic birda. USDA had already withdrawn import permits for chickena, turkeys, pigeons, etc., from 22 countries. ! INDUSta* / MNUAIT l< ON THE MOVE INDUCT HY MARKET PLACE I Undiantored HaMlhed. 38r ner word. I 1 per month. Minimum charge 93.19 I fi Parrott Gorlp OUN K. PARROTT appointed mIm representative tor Vineland Laborato ries, Vineland. N. J He n formerly Midwest and Southeast manager lor Dawe'a Laba. PHJIJP GER1G namad administrative aaaialant for Poultry Division, DaKalb AgReaearch, DaKalb. III. JOHN ItERODOU. namad vlce-preaidrnt of aalaa, Colonial Metals, Inc., Indtanapolla, )nd. Hr was formerly In aalra with Anderson Box Co. DR. GARY WALTERS promoted In newly treated poaltmn ol poultry aalaa and eervlce manna ft for Hy-Une Poul try nm, Dot Moinaa, la. Ha waa formerly Hyl.tne customer service man- CAROLYN GODMAN namad conaultaot in nutrition and economic* for Purnell's Pride, Tupelo. Mfaa.. integrated producllon processing dMrlbulipn Arm for chicken and eggs. WENDELL LANGFORD promoted from production manager to vtco-proaidant and general manager of Babcock Southwort, Searcy, Ark., a aubaldlary of Babrock Industries, Ithaca, N. Y. WALLACK M. LEROY Joined aalaa staff of Molded Product! Diviaion, Pack aging Carp, of America. 1802 Orrlngten Ave., Evaiwtou, HI. 80804. He wlU repreaanl the company in Now England and the eauem two-thirda of New York. GILBERT B. ECKHOTP joined Hennlngaen Foode. White Plalne, N. Y , aa director of purchasing. He will be headouaiicrcd al the firm'* Oma ha, Neb., office. DWAIN ANDEKECK promoted to dlatrket ealee manager. South Central elate*, for Molded Product! Diviaion, Packaging Cerp. of America. GARY BOWEN named aenerel manager of Southwestern Egg Producer*, River, aide. Calif. lOO IHOUIttV / JAMUAIY, l|77 Maynoa Van Loor ROBERT L. HAYNES named poultryman with Cooperative Extension Ser vice. Mississippi State University. Ha received hia PhD. at M5U in animal phyatology. and waa manager of hatch ery and brooder program for MFC Her vice*, Jackaon, Miaa. HANS VAN LEER named production farm* manager at Babcock Poultry Farm. Uhaea, N. Y. Moat recently he waa general manager of Arbor Acre* Form, WilHamntown, Maas. BRIEFLY... RLOCTMfc Lionel Grim aa preefctenl of Northeast Egg Marketing Aaa'a. Oth er offieen are: Maurice Stain. Aral vice-president; Donald Hern, second vice-president; MUte Mirth, treasurer, and Frank Reed, aecratary. Ray Delano, manager. Mid NKEMA now represents 19 million layers >n the Northeast and sent 9121,000 as its ahare of support to United Egg Producer* In the peat IlKtfDi Jim Hanna. Alexandria, ac preaidant of Poultry Induatrtee of Louisiana. Albin Johnaon, Alexandria, la vLce-pruidant and Dr. Hairy Hatha way, Baton Rouga, secretary-trsaeurer. Nail Hungerford, Lake Charlee, waa namad to tho Louisiana Egg Council. LSCTID: Elroy Roaster, Stover, as president of Missouri Poultry Improve ment Ase'n. Herbert Stelnbrueek, Troy, ia vice-president; Harriet fUimner, arcretary-lreaaurer. and Ken Ballew. offi cial Mate agency chairman. ILBCTBDt Allen Aahcrafl, PCX Egg Service, Charlotte, aa president of the North Carolina Egg Marketing Asa n. Other officer* are Bob Domlck, Sunnyside Eggs. Greenville. vice-president, and Joe Davie, Davit Hatchery, Earl, secretnry-lreniurer. 9*S DAILY IMCOMO Irem app testery with 48.000-hen capacity and estali- lished egg reMea. Suainow can be pur chaaad with or without additional hour ing space for 19.008 hens, 90 srres of land, full set of farm Whittles. tneliMt. Ing frame home and (wo mobile homes. Owner is retiring. For additional in formation, call or write: Fred A. Rirherds, of "Red" Howell Aeeoe., Ik , 3227 S. Calhoun. Fort Wayne. Ind. 40007. Toiepbona 210-744-1169. ParMa too CARTOM9 from Apwov, Your egg quality deaervea cartoua that mil. Agway has a breed selection of peck meet your market demands. Sturdy de sign mmimtxea breakage. When you think egg cartona, think Agway. Call your neareet Agway store or write Aa way Inc, Box 1339, Syracuse. N. Y 19201, attention: B. R, Thompson 40 se por hour < ingrown 'Jx.this unit and ................ .................. machtnee. Available after January 1 . 1972. Swinyiea Foods Lid., Box 30. Grimsby, Onl., Canada. 41M4S-9SS9. CG PROCI89INO plant mawapat for new. completely in-ltno plant ban dling B.000 caaea shell eggs per week Must be experienced in managing pen pie and handling volume prcdw-i MM west Mention offering growth oppor tunity. Send resume and experlrd alary is first biln, Bex 18, Kgg In dustry, Sea bio City. N. J. 08343. POSITION AVAILABLE Manager for plant proceasing 3.000 to 8,000 caaea cartoned eggs weekly; alee wnall merit anlaed liquid egg department. Must be experienced in The uaa of mechanised grading equipment, solee and handling people. Location Northeaat. Send re tune and aelary oxperied first leitsr, Box 9. Egg industry, San Isle City, N. J 08349. GRAVITY PLOW bulk toed ptanf. ISO ton daily capacity. Built 1808. 9U x 300 Butler Gold building dock high 900too overhead storage IS blue aquare comer draw. >0,000-bushel pain ttor age 3-bin Two 3,000-buMtel-por-hour elevators. Two vertical lie* miaera. One hsriioaisi 3-Ion mixer. Two J. B Sedberry hammemulls. Out 10x30 Has* roller mill. 90-ton (ruck scale. Fork lift and pallets. 14H acres < " * P. O. Box 930. ORGANIC DIGB8TIR8 -- Dud-0rd fer sanitary dispoaal of dead, dieeaard poultry. KFD litter treatment slum natee ammoata, controls odor, drie* Utter. Write for literature. Ryter Or xanlr* Madelie, Minn. 90082. AS M0NS 066619 EDITORIAL COMMENT PENB sinking--we need it more than ever Most or us in the egg industry and allied Reids would be shocked if we woke up some morning to learn that there was no more Poultry and Egg National Board, litis is nearer to reality than all but a few realize. In December, PENB was wilMn a few weeks of not being able to meet its small payroll. It is ironic that, at a time when the industry seems to be waking up to the vital need of promotion, its only promotional arm should be the victim of such blatant neglect. The position of PENB, never blessed with more than a token budget and charged with the task of competing with other food products and commodities with hundreds of times ss much money to spend, has worsened over the put two years. There are several reasons. One, premettonal money hu been channeled into groups outside PENB. These organizations (such as the National Commission on Egg Nutrition, see story on page 50) are undoubtedly performing im portant services for the industry. But there is no question that money contributed to them meang that some funds are siphoned off that would have gone to PENB. Two, many organtaatlona which formerly checked off funds to PENB discontinued doing so when they joined United Egg Producers because they were assured l)EP would contribute enough to PENB to make up the difference. Unfortunately, 11 hasn't worked that way. Even before IJEP spent itself broke with diveraions and in futures trading this fall. Us payments to PENB were usually well behind schedule. It is difficult to plan any meaningful programs if income is sporadic, at best. UEP agreed to contribute 10% of its Income to PENB, which constitutes about nearly a third of whtl PENB receives. IIEP's loaact in September left it unable to help PENB much in ita present plight. It did manage to aend a 15,000 check in December to help PENB meet current expenses of payroll and rent. At an executive committee meeting of both organizations, UEP agreed to tend more money in January. But it will still be well behind the agreed payment schedule and in its present condition may not be able to catch up. Organizations in UEP which thought a portion of ita checkoff to the regional co-op was being funnoted direct to PENB are understandably concerned This is no time, in our opinion, to point finger* of blame at one group or another PENB's talented staff and contacts in the communications field are much too valuable to be lost to the industry Some thing must be done immediately to tec that this duett not happen. We suggest that the solution may lie In combin ing all the independent efforts si promotion and research under a reorganized and expanded PENB This might mean hiring of a financially oriented general manager who would coordinate all fund raising programs, manage the business end of PENR and leave ita present staff free to pursue ita promo tional projects with no worry about finances. Dr. L. A. Wilhelm, an accomplished public speaker and a walking library of industry knowledge, could devote his full energies toward promotional activities. Howard Helmer, PENB's widely respected Eastern representative whose contacts with magazine and TV editors in New York are Invaluable, and Pot Myles, recognized for building the image of eggs be fore home economists and the public, muji nor lost to the industry. Such sn organizational setup would also leave Charles Mealor fra* to work on get ting (he EGGSERT (carton insert) program in opera (ion. It has the potential of providing much needed income for PENB. This enlarged orgenlsaffen should, presumably, be able to carry out the activities now under way bv the nutrition commission and by the allied indu*ti> group which is preparing radio and TV promotional* They could continue with the same members and objectives. These two groups are performing vital much-needed functions Ihst no one else was doing Hut if (hey came under the umbrella of a single nr ggnization, there should be better coordination o( efforts with no overlapping. Regardless of whether such a proposal is feasible or whether another one would be better, somethin): should be done soon. If PENB closed up shop, rt would leave a tragic void. It might Indicate that tinegg industry, itself, has decided to give up and ;iv cept a dwindling share of the market at inevilatde teo INOVITtV / JAHUAtT I*'. HONS 066620 Piece them together to get the quality system The FMC 463 System provides ail of the above units in a single integrated system Fully automatic -- no hand packing. Save yourseil the job of selecting and piecing together these components. Cali Dave Copple, Product Manager, tor a quick check on the FMC 463 Egg Handling Sys tem. Telephone (714) 684 3400. -the FMC 463! 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