April  15,  1916, 
or  “work,"  but  the  pullet  could  only  imi¬ 
tate  their  fccdiug  habits,  and  she  raised 
the  wrong  sort  of  a  crop. 
Stay  By  Them. — I  cannot  say  that  my 
birds  at  the  egg-laying  contest  have  hand¬ 
ed  us  glory  tied  to  a  blue  ribbon.  For  a 
time  they  did  fairly  well,  but  just  when 
we  expected  most  from  them  they  fell 
down.  “Are  you  not  ashamed  of  them?" 
says  one  easily  discouraged  reader !  No 
sir — the  Hope  Farm  man  hopes  he  is 
made  of  more  enduring  stuff  than  that. 
Those  birds  have  disappointed  us  thus 
far,  but  we  stay  right  by  them  cheerfully 
and  with  a  good  faee.  They  will  come 
up  yet.  True,  they  have  not  yet  shown 
the  form  of  their  mother  or  grandmother, 
hilt  the  blood  is  there  all  right.  Suppose 
they  Continue  to  Hatton  out — will  not  that 
show  that  all  this  talk  about  blood  lines 
and  inheritance  is  bosh?  No — not  a  bit 
of  it.  More  likely  it  will  show  that  we 
did  not  know  how  to  develop  or  select 
these  birds  to  the  best  advantage. 
Training. — There  you  have  it — “a 
good  eye.”  It  is  the  greatest  asset  in  all 
lines  where  products  of  labor  come  into 
competition — all  the  way  from  a  baseball 
player  to  a  politician.  We  must  learn  to 
size  things  up  accurately  by  looking  at 
them.  The  men  who  take  prizes  at  fruit 
shows  are  not  always  the  best  growers — 
but  they  know  how  to  select  the  finest 
specimens!  The  best  ball  player  has  the 
good  eye  which  enables  him  to  know  just 
where  the  ball  is  coming.  The  export,  poli¬ 
tician  has  the  eye  which  shows  him  at  a 
glance  the  character  and  capacity  of  the 
man  he  must  use.  Behind  the  "good  eye” 
is  a  brain  well  filled  with  “instinct”  and 
well  covered  with  the  records  of  compari¬ 
sons  and  a  definite  standard.  T  think  one 
reason  why  Tom  Barron's  birds  usually 
stand  up  close  to  the  head  is  the  fact  that 
lie  has  this  “good  eye”  for  selection.  He 
could  not  tell  you  just  why  he  would  take 
one  of  two  birds  almost  alike  to  the  ordi¬ 
nary  eye,  but  he  will  select  the  better  one. 
Evidently  we  do  not  yet  know  how  to  se¬ 
lect  the  best  layers.  I  seem  to  have  hit  it 
fairly  well  on  two  or  three  pullets  in  our 
pen,  but  you  see  how  "Bed-head”  fooled 
us.  Then  again,  as  with  children,  it  is 
largely  a  matter  of  bringing  lip.  It  seems 
absurd  at  first  thought  to  say  that  the 
brooder  decides  much  of  the  pullet  record 
on  the  nest,  hut  it  is  true. 
What  Then? — If  all  this  is  even  half 
true  what  becomes  of  all  this  argument 
for  improved  blood  and  egg-laying 
strains?  It  stays  right  where  it  always 
was  and  becomes  st  ronger.  Run  your  eye 
over  the  large  human  families  you  know 
and  tell  me  if  the  children  arc  of  equal 
mental  or  physical  capacity.  You  may.  of 
course,  say  that  if  flocks  of  poultry  were 
mated  up  about  as  most  human  families 
are  they  would  present  a  strange  lot.  of 
birds,  hut  go  to  those  few  old-time  fam¬ 
ilies  where  for  generations  the  parentage 
has  been  carefully  selected  and  you  will 
rarely  find  two  children  alike — yet  all 
having  some  strong  qualities  in  common. 
We  have  handled  and  brought  up  a  good 
many  children,  and  we  have  watched  this 
carefully.  Perhaps  wo  may  say  that  we 
have  a  better  “eye”  for  children  than  for 
hens.  Most  of  them  have  taken  some 
strong  qualities,  good  or  bad.  from  their 
parents,  hut  environment  and  Care  while 
are  small  determine  life  to  a  large 
extent.  If  you  were  to  enter  a  child  at  a 
beauty  show  you  would  prefer  Mary  to 
while  at  a  cooking  contest  Jane 
would  be  the  star.  Sometimes  I  hear 
from  men  who  buy  baby  chicks  or  eggs 
from  flocks  noted  for  utility  breeding. 
These  chicks  are  given  very  inferior  care 
and  when  the  pullets  fail  to  lay  ."00  eggs 
each  in  a  year  the  buyer  thinks  he  has 
been  deceived  and  that  “blood”  is  not  as 
This  “blood”  is  tendency 
thing,  hut  the  more  select  tile 
”  the  greater  must  be  the  oppor¬ 
tunity  and  in  the  case  of  the  hen  that, 
means  care  and  good  judgment.  I)o  not 
think,  however,  that  the  Hope  Farm  man 
is  saying  all  this  to  get.  some  excuse  for 
his  Bod  pullets.  No — those  pullets  have 
the  blood,  but  I  don’t  think  they  had  the 
best  chance,  and  we  did  not  quite  know 
the  difference  between  Mary  and  Jane. 
Take  “Bed-liead”  for  example.  If  the 
to  go  to  the  best  eater — she 
-hut  the  contest  is  for 
The  Hope  Farm  man 
always  tries  to  take  his  medicine  standing 
and  with  a  good  face  I  n.  w.  c. 
HOPE  FARM  NOTES 
A  Farm  Tragedy, — This  last  Winter 
will  be  remembered  at  Hope  Farm  for 
many  things — among  others  the  death  of 
poor  old  Jennie.  This  faithful  black 
friend  came  to  us  as  a  pensioner — thrown 
out  of  service  by  the  gasolene  in  a  car. 
She  found  a  good  home  here,  and  she  did 
her  duty.  Jennie  was  an  ideal  “woman’s 
horse.”  Wc  never  knew  her  to  run  away 
except  that  last  run  to  her  death,  and  it 
was  fully  safe  to  send  the  children  along 
with  her  when  errands  were  needed.  The 
last  storms  of  Winter  piled  the  snow  high 
along  our  roads,  and  the  two  boys  waded 
to  school  through  drifts.  In  the  after¬ 
noon  Mother  concluded  that  it  was  too 
much  for  them  to  wade  home,  so  she 
bundled  Cherry-top  into  his  coat  and  cap 
and  gloves,  and  with  Jennie  trotting 
ahead  of  the  sleigh  otf  he  started  to  bring 
the  hoys  back.  Something  like  half  an 
hour  later  the  'phone  bell  rang  and  a  small 
voice  which  trembled  a  little  with  excite¬ 
ment.  and  fright,  told  how  poor  Jennie 
had  broken  her  shoulder! 
The  Story. — The  old  horse  trotted 
briskly  on.  She  knew  what  to  do  so  well 
that  the  boy  had  only  to  hold  the  lines 
and  let  her  drive.  On  the  way  he  came 
to  an  auto  truck  stuck  in  the  snow.  It 
was  a  delivery  truck  from  one  of  the  big 
New  York  department  stores — well  filled 
with  packages.  In  some  way,  I  know  not 
how,  the  driver  induced  this  child  to  tnru 
about  in  the  snow  and  carry  him  half  a 
mile  or  more  over  the  hill  to  deliver  a 
package.  The  hoy  is  always  ready  to 
help,  so  he  took  in  his  new  passenger  and 
started.  The  man  went  in  to  deliver  the 
package  and  the  boy  tried  to  turn  around, 
hut  in  the  deep  crusted  snow  he  could  not 
do  it.  So  he  drove  into  the  yard  and 
tried  to  turn  there.  Jennie  was  evidently 
a  little  nervous  and  half  way  about  the 
sleigh  tipped.  The  boy  was  game  and  as 
he  says,  “I  threw'  my  weight  over  the 
other  side  like  everything !”  He  did  not 
have  weight  enough,  and  the  sleigh  tipped 
over  with  the  hoy  in  it  and  his  foot 
tangled  up  in  the  robe! 
A  Runaway. — Strange  to  say  old  Jen¬ 
nie.  the  cool-headed  old  friend,  lost  her 
nerve  there  and  ran.  The  hoy  hung  to 
her  until  his  rubber  boot  came  off  and  left 
him  free,  when  he  fell  out.  He  put  up  a 
good  battle,  but  Jennie  finally  broke  away 
from  control,  smashed  into  a  fence,  went 
down  upon  a  rock  and  broke  her  shoul¬ 
der.  The  boy  finally  got  help  and  they 
unharnessed  the  poor  brute  and  got  her 
under  shelter.  There  was  no  hope  for 
her  and  all  we  could  do  was  to  put  her 
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