 A Campaign Plan for More Electric Brooders in Your Own CommunityRural Electrification Administration No 371444, USDA Miscellaneous from United States Department of Agriculture Abstract: Excerpts from the Foreword: For many a farmer whose total income comes from one or two cash crops, electric brooders will provide what he most needs: extra dollars coming in every month of the year. Before electricity, egg and poultry raising took a lot of time; few farmers could tend their crops and have time left for raising chickens; likewise where the homemaker took care of the chickens, too much of her time was needed. But now, simple electrical devices have changed all this. The brooder needs little attention, and it is safe. It makes it easier to brood healthier chicks, with lower mortality, and usually at a lower cost than by other methods. Other helpful devices grind feed, turn lights on and off, keep the drinking water warm, facilitate the grading and cleaning of eggs, and do many other necessary jobs around the poultry flock. Brooders open the door to wider use of electricity - benefiting both the farmer and the cooperative. Brooders will go a long way towards making the farmer electrically minded. Your members will want to know about INCOME-PRODUCING USES of electricity. Here's one of the most important, and it costs but little. Keywords: Livestock Production/Industries; Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies; Resource/Energy Economics and Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:usdami:371444 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in USDA Miscellaneous from United States Department of Agriculture |
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