1906.] DISCUSSION. 119 



Mr. McGrew. Mr. Chairman, I have been listening with 

 a good deal of interest to what Mr. TiUinghast has had to say. 

 He has got the only plant of the kind in the world, so far as 

 I know, and he has been very successful with it. He has made 

 money. I want to bring out a little more clearly the business 

 side of his plant than has been brought out by the questions 

 which have been asked. I have never been at a place where a 

 man seems to grow a larger percentage of chickens from what 

 he hatches than Mr. Tillinghast's. I never have seen a man 

 that handled Leghorns, and got as many eggs and as good re- 

 sults under a special system of management as Mr. TiUinghast, 

 and the point we want to find out, and one which he apparently 

 will not let us find out at present, is what percentage of eggs 

 he can get from those hens, especially during the winter 

 months, under the system that he is using in keeping them. 

 H he will just answer that, it would be a great benefit. I do 

 not know of anybody here who can get it out of him unless he 

 is willing to tell us. 



Most of the poultry keepers tell us that if we want to raise 

 four or five thousand hens, and want to get the best results 

 irom them, we must not water them early in the morning; 

 that we must wait until the sun is up, and to give them a little 

 lukewarm water. Now this gentleman keeps one, two, or three 

 thousand hens. I think when I was there he had about two 

 thousand, and he tells us that they must depend upon what 

 they get. He is getting eggs from them. Now it would be of 

 great value if he could come before us at some time and tell 

 us what the percentage is, or could tell the world what per- 

 centage of eggs he gets from one of his colonies of fifty hens. 

 That is what the people want to know. If Mr. TiUinghast, 

 with his information and ability, could see his way clear to give 

 us that information as to egg yield per month for twelve 

 months from just one of his colonies, he will benefit every 

 single man that is giving his life to the study of poultry. I 

 wish to impress upon him the duty of keeping for the informa- 



