HAMPSHIRE COUNTY FARMERS' MONTHLY 



Continued from page :i column 3 

 dry and then put water on it. Any 

 dealer had i-ather pay you for the water 

 and have you leave it off, but a certain 

 amount of water can be put on good 

 healthy tobacco providing you understand 

 how, but putting it on with a broom and 

 barrel when it is pulled off the lath or as 

 I have seen one man do it with a pail and 

 brush as he was stripping it in the bun- 

 dle is not the proper way by any means. 

 Next take down only what you can handle 

 properly. How many men take down so 

 much at one time that befoie they have 

 time to strip it off it is heating in the 

 pile? 



Don't try and put 60 pounds or ovei 

 inside a bundle when the paper will only 

 hold 40, thereby leaving a lot of exposed 

 tobacco to dry up and break. Don't make 

 your hands so big your cannot lay it in 

 the bundle straight. 



THREE COUNTY FAIR 



October 4, 5, 6, 1921 



NORTHAMPTON, . MASS. 



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Continued from page 4. r-olumn '.^ 

 have paid out about $.52.00. The birds 

 are worth $2.5.00 and the eggs and poul- 

 try seed used amount to over $84.00 so my 

 profit is a little over $57.00. I have had 

 no diseases in my flock. One hen died. 

 I do not know what was the trouble with 

 her. 



It is very unusual for any of the Medi- 

 terranean breeds to set but one of my 

 birds has hatched ten chicks. All are 

 strong and healthy. They are three 

 weeks old now. 



I have only won one prize and that was 

 a blue ribbon won at M. A. C. on a doz- 

 en eggs. 



I think taking care of the baby chicks 

 and collecting the eggs is the best fun of 

 the poultry club work. 



Lewell Walkei', .Jr. 



Continued from page 2, column :S 



condition for business. In an immature 

 pullet 01- a hen that has stopped laying 

 or gone broody these bones recede and 

 are difficult to find, as on a male. 



The abdominal capacity of a hen also 

 changes with production. A pullet near- 

 ing maturity fills out her abdomen with 

 necessary reserve fat, the developing 

 ovary and oviduct, and the dilated intes- 

 tines, all of which require more room. 

 The good laying hen maintains this wide 

 deep, capacious abdomen. When handled 

 it feels soft and pliable, enveloped by a 

 loose skin of fine quality, as contrasted 

 with the coarser, tight skin enclosing' the 

 hard fat-filled abdomen of the poor layer, 

 or the hen which is jiot laying. 



The comb, wattles and ear-lobs are 

 highly vascular organs revealing quite 

 plainly the condition of blood circulation, 

 and reflecting to some degree the health 

 of the bird and the condition of her 

 ovaries. In good health and production 

 the comb and wattles are bright, full, of 

 good size and wa.xy to the touch. As 

 production wanes they lose color and get 

 limp. 



An effort is being made to coirelate 

 some particular type or body conforma- 

 tion with high egg production. The so- 

 called "Hogan System" represents pioneer 

 work in this direction. Suffice to note 

 that egg-type must unite capacity and 

 quality. Birds of great intensity in egg 

 pioduction must possess large digestive 

 capacity combined with a disposition to 

 lay rather than put on flesh. Apparent- 

 ly it requires a long, deep body and an 

 active disposition. 



For best results, culling must be done, 

 or at least verified, in daylight, when 

 white and yellow may be easily dis- 

 tinguished. Primarily it is a method of 

 applying the plujmcal limitations to pro- 

 duetion and physical effects of prcdkictinn 

 to hens in the flocks kept under the same 

 conditions of environment for the purpose 

 of disposing of the poor individuals and 

 keeping the good ones. Used in this 

 manner it is reasonably accurate. 



It is not safe to judge a hen by any one 

 of the previously discussed indications of 

 production or non-production. Many dis- 

 crepancies will be found. It is only when 

 birds are systematically measured by 

 each and all of these standards that a cor- 

 rect conclusion is apt to be reached con- 

 cerning their utility worth. 



Furthermore, hens can be culled ac- 

 curately only when kept under an envi- 

 ronment favorable to egg production. 

 Poor housing conditions, defective rations 

 or irregular feeding practices and para- 

 site infection may put many hens out of 

 laying condition and cause them to be 

 classed as culls, not because of inherent 

 poor qualities of the hens themselves, but 

 because of the care, or lack of caie, they 

 receive. 



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