7o 
Feb. 4 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
that account alone, in the points dis¬ 
cussed, as well as in the color of foliage, 
earliness or lateness of foliation and 
blooming-, bark character, etc. I ven¬ 
ture to say that if a grove were to con 
sist of trees grafted on the roots from the 
same stock, there would be almost abso¬ 
lute uniformity in the quality of the sap 
from all the healthy trees in the grove. 
WIRE ROPE SELVAGE. 
INFANTS 
TRADE "I 
INVALIDS. 
Pick Out Your Best Layers. 
I. P., Oswkgo, N. Y.—On page 18 Mr. 
YVyckoff tells us, in his paper on the 
Farmer and His Hen, that to make poul¬ 
try profitable, the first thing to be done 
is to dispose of the entire stock of scrub 
fowls. This is assuming that the stock 
to be purchased in their place of the T r xr v w + • a a 
“reliable breeder” will be better for J™ T . * ***** “* 
, . , , , readers against planting the Kiefter 
egg or chicken production than the “ Lr 
i , ., , , . , pear extensively, and we have no regrets 
lot to be got rid of. Why think thev + ,, . , , g Clls 
n v. t. , ey to express that we have done so. While 
would be better ? Very few breeders of t, . 
1 ** a. * , urceuers oi however, for most parts of the countrv 
hens pay any attention to breeding for the near to . y 
^ \ P ear is c ose to worthless as a 
the number of e^cfs or anv other practical - # . a * 
n i obnerpractical raw f rmt lt lg certa n] va]uable f 
excellence, but rather for color of feath- other purpose8 wherCTe / it win t £,‘" 
ers and legs, shape of combs and general whiIe ln a (ew Iooa]itieg „ seems Q 
appearance. Even when they claim to to deve] a6 t ^ , eMell 
breed for egg production, they often „ v . e^tenence 
. »-» ■, 2 a a, y in quality as it is often beautiful in 
fail, because) first, they must select for „ „ „ 
, . ’ / , iur appearance. Mr. Chas. Howard sends 
proper markings. If the breeder had „„ „ , , 
two cockerels from which to select, one Hshed'^near PhnaLV- aTV 
from the hen that laid the most eggs and !l at ” * ' h laM P h ‘h, which shows 
one from another hen, the first “off” in hefav^cd P «”“ylv a ma are amon e 
, . ,, ’ the favored places. We quote: 
marking, the other perfectly marked, he .. KlKKrKB wa5 pre6m ? ne ntly the va- 
would invariably select the latter; for r i e ty for profit. ” 
that from the best layer would not take .. Whole orohards were so , d before 
a prize in a show pen, neither would it , . . ,, . y 
take the ordinary and popular fancier’s 7 171 L ran&in ^ 
rp. r , from 40 to 50 cents per five-eighth bushel 
eye. The^probability is, however, that baskct in the orcha ‘ rd .„ * 
not one breeder m a hundred would .. And whcn „ stated ^ 
know which hen of a certain pen is the „ , , , . ^ 
, i ... , orchards bore from 300 to 400 bushels 
mother of his cockerel, and, if he did __ ,, ^ uusneis 
i v. . . , per acre, the profits can easily be esti- 
know, he might not know how good or , , . , , ... y 
u , , ;; ; ^ ° mated. And these yields followed the 
how poor a layer she might be. Conse- unprecedented crop of last year, when it 
quently, as there is no prize given and was predicted that the orchards could 
no demand for the best layers, he selects no ^ ^ ear this year.” 
for external appearance only. Now the “ The enormous yield and low prices 
man who keeps hens for eggs only does not of last T ear brought them into such gen- 
care whether they are true to marking or eral use > and so many new ways of utiliz- 
not, but does want those bred to lay the (Continued on next page.) 
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