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Seventy cents. — C. W. Sixt. 



For feed, 100 pounds each — and the sort of feed will 

 make price per hen. — L. S. Dayhoff. 



Our Leghorn hens cost us between $1.00 and $1.20 

 per year — never under $1.00 and very seldom over $1.20, 

 but of course we raise a good many different kinds of 

 vegetables, which we do not credit against the birds. — E. 

 J. Huber. 



9. How many hens can be kept in one flock and give 

 the best results in egg production? 



I have had better results from fifty hens in one flock, 

 for egg production, than a larger number, although at 

 different times during my experience with layers I have 

 had as many as ISO hens in one flock and still received 

 good results, but not so good as 

 when not over 50 were kept in 

 one flock.— N. V. Fogg. 



I don't know, but I think I 

 should like fifteen best — from fif- 

 teen to twenty-five. — W. VV. 

 Kulp. 



We find a flock of 350 birds 

 will lav as many eggs per hen as 

 a flock of 50 birds.— Robert Her- 



For the very best results I 

 never keep over eight or ten 

 hens in a flock — mostly eight. — 

 Huft' Poultry Yards. 



I have found that 45 females 

 will give better results than a 

 larger number. They will not 

 crowd so much at night and are 

 easier to care for. — J. C. Punder- 

 ford. 



Few men can keep more 

 than 100 hens in one flock and 

 get the best results; and then 

 they must have plenty of fresh 

 air and free range. — Hutchins 

 Brothers. 



.Miout 50 or 60.— Harmon 

 Brad^haw. 



I think 25 hens a sufficient 

 number to keep in one flock for 

 best results, but some breeders 

 think the larger the flock, the 

 mo. e eggs you will get. This has 

 not been the case with me at 

 least. — -H. E. Humphrey. 



Ten to fifteen. — George A. 

 Barrows. 



Twenty-five to thirty — no 

 more. — Robert D. Parmenter. 



Twenty-five hens give the best results, but flocks of 

 100 do well under the same systems of feeding.— Harlo J. 

 Fisk. 



Thirty to fifty.— C. W. Sixt. 



Not to exceed 100; less if convenient. — George B. 

 Ferris. 



Not over 50 hens.— L. S. Dayhoff. 



We never exceed fifteen hens in a flock for good re- 

 sults in egg production. — E. J. Huber. 



10. Do yoii consider it advisable to remove males 

 from flocks kept solely for the production of fancy market 

 eggs? 



Yes, I believe the birds will lay as well. The eggs 

 will be of finer quality, will keep longer, and the feed con- 

 sumed by the males will be saved. — N. V. Fogg. 



I should remove males if I were producing fancy 

 market eggs. — W. W. Kulp. 



I do not run males with flock kept for market eggs. 

 They do better work without and you do not have the 

 extra birds to feed. — Robert Herman. 



I do, as the eggs not fertilized will keep fresh longer 

 (a strictly fresh egg is an egg one day old). — Huff Poul- 

 try Yards. 



I do. In the first place an infertile egg will keep 

 longer than a fertile one; second, the females are not 

 worried and kept on the jump. — J. C. Punderford. 



Too much care cannot be taken in the selection of 

 our males. I would not select a male from a flock kept 



WHITE LEGHORN COCK "BOB HI" 

 One of the most successful winners in the 

 West is the White Leghorn cocli illustrated 

 above. In 1906 he won first at Chicago, Indian- 

 apolis and Thorntown; in 1907 he captured the 

 blue ribbon at Indianapolis and won second at 

 Boston; in IIWS he again captured first at In- 

 dianapolis. This bird is owne' 

 ited by Harmon Bradshaw, L( 



solely for egg production any more than I would from 

 one solely from a fancy point of view. The type makes 

 and preserves the breed; the hen that lays is the hen that 

 pays. — Hutchins Brothers. 



Yes. I believe the hens will lay just as well or bet- 

 ter, and the eggs will keep fresh much better. — Harmon 

 Bradshaw. 



With no exception, I think it best to have no males 

 with hens unless you want the eggs for incubation, from 

 the fact that an infertile egg will keep longer, and also 

 that you will not supply the whole country with eggs 

 for hatching, to parties who would not give more than 

 the market price for any eggs, whether they were laid 

 by a hen valued at $1.00 or $10.00 each.— H. E. Humphrey. 

 .\'ot entirely. — George A. Barrows. 



Females are more contented 

 with a male in the flock, and a 

 male to twenty or thirty females 

 vviU not hurt market value of 

 eggs materially. — Robert D. Par- 

 menter. 



Yes.— Harlo J. Fisk. 

 Yes.— C. W. Sixt. 

 Yes. — George B. Ferris. 

 Yes.— L. S. Dayhoff. 

 We think it advisable to re- 

 move males from flocks kept 

 solely for egg production, as in- 

 fertile eggs will keep a good deal 

 longer than a fertile egg. — E. J. 

 Huber. 



11. Will feeding yellow corn 

 affect color of white plumage? 

 Why and how? 



Yes, I have made several ex- 

 periments in feeding white and 

 yellow corn to birds; taking 

 birds all hatched in the same ma- 

 chine, dividing them into two 

 lots and feeding both lots the 

 same feed in every way, with the 

 exception of corn, giving one lot 

 yellow and the other white. At 

 maturity many of the birds fed 

 on yellow corn had a very brassy 

 plumage and others were very 

 creamy. The lot fed on white 

 corn had a fine white plumage 

 and their legs and beaks were a 

 rich yellow. Have tried the ex- 

 periment on old birds several 

 times and have come to the con- 

 clusion that feeding yellow corn 

 to white birds has much to do 

 with their color. I would not 

 advise any one to feed yellow corn to white birds under 

 any circumstances, unless he expects to sell them for mar- 

 ket purposes. I prefer yellow corn for feeding market 

 birds.— N. V. Fogg. 



I never could see that it made a mite of difference 

 whether corn be yellow or white. I saw five males the 

 other day and one got yellow eating the same brand of 

 corn the four that were white had eaten. It is in the blood. 

 Don't blame it on the feed if you missed it. There are 

 much more potent agencies than yellow corn to make or 

 produce yellow. One is lack of sunshine after September 

 15th.— W. W. Kulp. 



It will, but we always feed yellow corn to Leghorns 

 kept for market eggs. — Robert Herman. 



I do not think the feeding of yellow corn affects 

 plumage in the least. I once fed a flock of Leghorns yel- 

 low corn, and a flock in the next pen — white corn. There 

 were ten hens in each flock; at the end of the year the 

 one pen of birds was as white as the other. — Huff Poultry 

 Yards. 



I think yellow corn will affect white plumage in a 

 small way. It is apt to give a yellowish tinge to the 

 feathers. — J. C. Punderford. 



We are positive the feed has no influence on the 

 plumage of a bird. It is in the blood and not in the feed. 

 Breed white and you get white. — Hutchins Brothers. 



Yellow corn has no effect on the plumage of white 

 birds, unless, at the time they are getting their second 

 feathers, it might affect the surface; but when the bird is 



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