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— Griffin Daily News Friday, February 27, 1976
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Chris Lance, right, interviews Fayette County farmer Vernon Woods in his economic study
of egg production.
Agriculture economist
helps chicken farmers
People in the poultry business
today have a wide variety of
production systems available to
them. But, their problem is
keeping up with them and
deciding which system is best
suited for their individual
resources of money, time and
labor.
An agricultural economist at
the University of Georgia
College of Agriculture Georgia
Experiment Station here is
working on a project that will
provide an economic evaluation
of the different production
systems.
“Ne>v producers, as well as
those expanding or improving
their present operations, need
comparative figures to make
investment decisions,” says G.
Chris Lance, who began the
first phase of this study in 1968.
“These figures change each
year as new types of houses,
equipment and production
techniques are introduced to the
poultry industry.
“Few farmers have enough
information to make accurate
comparisons. They usually
base their decisions on two or
three flocks. Too often
producers credit a successful
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operation solely to an in
dividual’s management ability
without taking into con
sideration variables such as the
strain of chicken or type house
used."
Lance has found that one
production improvement
doesn’t guarantee maximum
production. Many factors have
to be considered. For instance,
a combination of en
vironmentally controlled
houses, high performance
i layers, properly formulated
i feed, and skilled labor are
needed for top egg production,
i Environmentally controlled
; houses alone will not achieve
1 optimum efficiency.
> The wide range of production
. practices for poultry en-
• terprises includes variations in
power ventilation, controlled
i environment, automation in
, feeding and egg collection,
i housing density, manure
j disposal, and conventional
systems. Lance is gathering
i facts on them all, so he can
* recommend combinations that
are best suited to individual
r production systems.
i Lance works closely with
1 extension personnel to collect
— information for his study, but he
*| also gathers a lot of data on his
I own through interviews around
I the state with contract, in-
I dependent and integrated
I operators. Besides using
I thorough questionnaires, he
• examines farm records — when
J they are available — to
I determine cost and returns
I budgets.
I “It is sometimes difficult to
I find records and decide if
I they’re complete, but an
I evaluation of them lets me know
I what methods a producer
I employs and what kind of
I results he gets,” he says.
• Besides dealing with the
I producers themselves, Lance
[ collects information from
■ equipment manufacturers and
sales personnel and from the
processing corporations that
buy the eggs. This way he is
able to keep up with the wide
spectrum of factors that affect
poultry production.
When he began his series of
studies eight years ago, Lance
concentrated on laying hens. He
now analyzes statistics on
broilers, replacement pullets,
hatching hens and turkeys as
well. Until recently he has been
mostly interested in the dif
ferent types of houses used and
their operation. Other areas he
hopes to examine in the future
will include feed conversion
rates, poultry manure uses,
effects of forced molting, small
family-farm retail marketing,
and store door delivery.
Obituaries
By United Press International
Gen. Jerry Lee
AMARILLO, Tex. (UPI) -
Funeral arrangements are in
complete for Air Force Brig.
Gen. (ret.) William L. “Jerry”
Lee, 72, former commander of
Amarillo Air Force Base, who
died Thursday in a Amarillo,
Tex., hospital.
A graduate of Texas A&M,
Lee became an aviator in the
Army Air Corps in 1928. He was
a graduate of the National War
College and during World War
II commanded the 49th Bomber
Wing. Among his flight students
were Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
hower.
Lee was awarded 12 military
decorations, including the Dis
tinguished Service Medal and
the French Legion of Honor.
Editor Evans
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (UPI) -
Herndon J. Evans, former
editor of the Lexington Herald
and one-time owner-editor of
the Pineville Sun, a weekly
newspaper in Bell County, Ky.,
died Thursday, while fishing
near his Clearwater Beach,
Fla., apartment.
Evans also served as a
member of the University of
Kentucky Board of Trustees
and was a former president of
the Kentucky Press Associa
tion.
He is survived by his widow,
Mary Elizabeth Downing
Evans; a daughter, Mrs.
Baylor Landrum of Louisville;
a brother, Cleff Evans of
Frankfort; a sister, Mrs. John
Lester of Cincinnati, Ohio, and
three grandchildren.
Polish leader
WARSAW, Poland (UPI) —
Andrezej Benesz, president of
the Polish Democratic party’s
central committee and deputy
speaker of the Polish parlia
ment was killed in an automo
bile accident Thursday, the
Polish national news agency
PAP reported.
Details were not immediately
available.
Actor Bell
CLEVELAND (UPI) -
Television and stage actor
Nolan Bell, the first black actor
to become a member of the
Cleveland Playhouse staff, died
Thursday at his home. He was
55.
Bell began his acting career
at Karamu Theater and supple
mented his income by working
for the Cleveland Sanitation
Department, thereby becoming,
in 1968, the first garbageman
ever to be listed in Who’s Who.
The investigator retires in D.C.
WASHINGTON (UPI) — A paper shredder at the side of
his desk, Julius G. Sourwine sat in the plant-filled
basement office he shared with a secretary. Lately there
had been little to do.
Sourwine, 68, has been with the Senate for 33 years and
with the Senate internal security subcommittee from its
creation. Today he retires from his $37,050 a year job as
chief counsel.
He intends to return to Reno, Nev., where his 89-year
old mother still maintains a home. He says he may write a
book or two.
Heavy set, with rimless eyeglasses and a shock of white
hair, Sourwine has been a well-known figure among
conservatives dedicated to combating communism.
To a segment of Washington’s hard-hitting card
players, he has also been well-known as a sharp poker
player.
At all-night games in the National Press Club, Sourwine
was famous for tearing up an entire deck of cards when he
got angry — and for taking a game’s survivors to
breakfast at the Madison Hotel.
“He was a lively, liberal player, not adverse to a
judicious bluff,” recalls a veteran of some of those
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sessions. “Pots tended to get bigger when he was in the
game.”
For a time, in the 19505, the internal security
subcommittee competed with Sen. Joseph McCarthy s
permanent investigations subcommittee in investigating
communism, but internal security never achieved e
same attention.
The subcommittee’s most famous case was its long
investigation of the Institute of Pacific Relations.
Sourwine’s cross-examination of Owen Lattimore, a
China scholar on the institute’s staff, resulted in
Lattimore’s indictment for perjury but the case was
thrown out of court.
The subcommittee also investigated for three years the
demotion of Otto Otepka at the State Department. Otepka
was in charge of security and was accused of leaking
secret internal information to department critics in
Congress.
In recent years, the subcommittee has not conducted
many investigations and those it did conduct attracted
little attention. Lately the subcommittee has been fighting
for its life against attempts by Sen. Mark O. Hatfield, Il-
Ore., to abolish it.
FALSE ALARM
SLOUGH, England, Feb. 19
(UPI) - Sgt. Maj. Denis
Mance of the Royal Horse
Artillery beamed when he saw
the line of men outside his
army recruiting office here,
until they started asking how
they could enlist in the
mercenaries for Angola.
“We were amazed when they
asked for information o n
enlisting for Angola,” said
Mance.
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