much about handsome fowls being poor 
layers, for two years I have kept sepa¬ 
rate records of the eggs laid by the dif¬ 
ferent hens in order to see if those se¬ 
lected for “ fancy ” points were really 
inferior to the culls as layers. All were 
divided into three lots : 
No. 1 were what might he called exhi¬ 
bition birds, many of which had taken 
premiums. No. 2 were fair breeding 
birds, but “off” on some points. No. 3 
were the culls All were treated alike. 
The result was that for both years the 
No. 1 laid by far the largest number of 
eggs. And why shouldn’t they ? Al¬ 
though much has been said about fowls 
of good form and color being poor 
layers, I never heard a sensible reason 
why they should not be just as good 
layers as those of poor form and color, 
and, as stated, in my case they are far 
better. Now, how is it with the breeders 
of “dunghills ?” How many of them se¬ 
lect their breeders from their best layers? 
I venture the assertion that among 100 
farmers who keep “dunghill” fowls not 
one has ever given the matter a serious 
thought. Nine out of ten of the farmers 
in this section keep such scrubs as Mr. 
Wyckoff describes, and not one in ten of 
them gets eggs enough in the winter to 
pay for the feed the fowls consume. 
These men would call Buff Cochins poor 
layers, but mine have laid during Jan¬ 
uary and February for two years, eggs 
that sold for three times what it cost to 
feed them. 
“ Rose of Erin ” Defended. 
G. N. H., Shelbyville, Mich.— In The 
R. N.-Y. of January 14, 1893, is a notice 
which tells us to “beware of high- 
priced new potatoes.” The firm selling 
the above variety to which reference was 
made, is Edward C. Brown & Co., Roch¬ 
ester, N. Y. Here is my experience with 
it: Flesh white and mealy ; very produc¬ 
tive ; very smooth; very large; some 
specimens I have seen weighed 2 % 
pounds, while the average in a good sea¬ 
son will weigh one pound. It is a pink¬ 
ish red and is certain to push its way on 
its merits. 
(Continued on next page.) 
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L. R. H., Hudson, Mich. —A late issue 
of The R. N.-Y. contains an article on 
the evaporation of maple syrup by steam. 
As I have had some experience in that 
line, perhaps I can say something that 
will be of benefit to those who intend to 
try that method. I have used the evap¬ 
orator for two seasons, tapping between 
1,000 and 1 ,100 trees. It is 12 feet long, 
18 inches wide and 22 deep. At first I 
tried running it with a 12 -horse power 
thrashing engine, but it would not gen¬ 
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good run, so I was obliged to hire an¬ 
other engine of the same capacity. Then 
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sap went to waste. If a hot-water pump 
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water back into the boiler, one engine of 
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evaporate the sap of 1,000 trees, but I 
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outfit is of any advantage over an im¬ 
proved pan, not having had any experi¬ 
ence with the latter. It takes a great 
amount of water, if the hot water cannot 
be re-used, and arrangements must be 
made for an ample supply. The quality 
of the sugar and syrup surpasses that of 
any I have ever seen made by any other 
method. My evaporator is not a bit too 
large for the number of trees named, as 
it has been crowded for 72 hours consec¬ 
utively, to keep ahead of the fast-accu¬ 
mulating sap. 
M. F., Murray, Pa. —In the spring of 
1891 I tried an evaporator (patterned 
after the description given in The R. 
N.-Y. of 1890, page 901) consisting of a 
five-horse thrashing engine boiler, one 
tin pan 12 feet long, 20 inches wide, 
8 inches deep. It would evaporate 60 
gallons of sap per hour, and the boiler 
generated sufficient steam to evaporate 
to its full capacity. In the season of 
1892 I used a 10-horse traction engine 
boiler, and the 12 -foot pan for evaporat¬ 
ing, an 8 -foot pan for heating in, and a 
4-foot; pan for finishing the syrup; I 
could evaporate 90 gallons of sap per 
hour. This year I intend to use an eight- 
foot pan for finishing the syrup and a 
four-foot, one for heating. I could have 
used a smaller boiler. From my experi¬ 
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H. C., page 53, an eight-horse engine 
would furnish steam for two pans 10 feet 
long, each pan fed with steam directly 
from the boiler. A four-foot heating 
pan could be used to advantage by ex¬ 
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