farm has increased substantially. The increases in individual farm output 

 have also been due in part to progress in breeding, feeding, and management 

 which resulted in faster growth of meat birds (enabling more lots to be 

 handled per year) and higher egg production per layer. 



Table 9. Relationship Between Total Chore Time and Feeding Time, 

 Laying Flocks and Replacement Rearing. 



Enterprise 



Percent 

 Total Chore Time Feeding of 



Chore Time in Feeding Total Chore Time 



(Man mins. per day) (Man mins. per day) 



Laying flocks 



Brooding, 12 weeks 

 Range rearing, 10 weeks 



87.0^ 



27.02 



31 



1 N. H. Sta. Cir. 73, p. 1. 



- Table 14. For multiple story houses with systematically located grain room on each floor and feed 

 carried into pens in pails. 



■•' N. H. Sta. Cir. 79, p. 12. 



* Ibid., p. 6. Mash only, 9.4 minutes/day/1.000. 



^ Ibid., p. 6. Mash and scratch, 14.2 minutes/day/1,000. * 



" Ibid,, p. 12. Mash or pellets in hoppers, 10 minutcs/day/l.OOO. 



' Ibid., p. 12. Scratch fed in addition, 15 minutes/day/1,000. 



Table 10. Numbers of Farms Engaged in Poultry Production, Output 

 per Form and per Animal Unit, New Hampshire, 1929, 1939, 1949 



Source: Census of Agriculture, 1950 



^ Chickens on hand, 4 months old and over, April 1 of year following. 



- Produced. Hence, larger number of farms than for 1929 because farms producing solely for home 

 consimntion included. Also relatively higher numbers per farm and egg output per farm in relation 

 to 1929 and 1949 than comparable series would show. 



In terms of the proportions of New Hampshire's output of eggs and 

 poultry, the share of the output accounted for by larger units has increased 

 tremendously in the last two decades. These data are shown in Table 11. 

 From 1940 to 1950 the proportions of chickens on hand April 1, 4 months 

 old and over (a fair measure of laying flocks), and eggs produced by flocks 

 of 3,200 and over doubled. The proportion of chickens sold (including some 

 broilers as well as fowl) from units of 3,200 and over (on hand) increased 

 even more. The trend toward larger units has continued since 1949-50, 

 probably at an accelerated rate. 



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