1909. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
603 
HENS THAT EAT EGGS. 
I noticed an article on page 4.14 by 
James E. Rice in answer to question by 
R. S. about why hens eat eggs. I agree 
with him as far as he goes, but here is 
my experience. I came here April 1, 
and took the management of this large 
farm. The owner’s wife told me they 
were having great trouble with hens 
eating eggs, although hens ran out 
doors. I found that they had fed mostly 
corn with some wheat, the man before 
me telling them oats were no good for 
hens. I began feeding oats and wheat, 
and only in a deep litter, and already 
they have stopped eating eggs and are 
doing fairly well; one pen of B. P. Rocks, 
14 in all, giving eight or 10 a day, and 
a mixed pen of 22 giving from 10 to 16 
per day. My idea is that the oat fur¬ 
nishes more ash and dry matter than 
other grain and that they were in a 
feverish condition from so much corn. 
The women folks have spoken of how 
much stronger the egg shells are. and 
the eggs are heavier. 
Good for J. Grant Morse! It is a 
pretty hard thing for an average man 
to distinguish the right of the claims 
made by big breeders for their stock, 
but I believe the Jersey is still at the 
top for best profit in butter fat, and 
for me I don’t like to handle a lot 
of water for a little grease any more 
than a large lot of land for a small 
crop when half that land, if good, 
would give me just as much of a crop. 
So. China, Me. c. j. b. 
On page 434 I saw an inquiry for 
hens eating eggs. I can tell you a sim¬ 
ple and sure remedy. Hang a piece 
of fat salt pork on a bent wire in the 
chicken house, perhaps one pound to 
20 hens. Continue this every other 
day for three or four times, and your 
hens will stop eating eggs. It will not 
kill them. F. w. 
Fulton, N. Y. 
THE HOLSTEIN AND HER MILK. 
In an article on page 436. referring to 
the testing of the dairy breeds at St. 
Louis, Mo., Mr. Morse says there are 
some facts that did not get into the 
official report, and mentions that, while 
the Jerseys were ready to start May 
6. the test began June 16, thus giving 
the advantage to newly freshened Hol- 
steins. May I also mention a fact 
not in the official report? Jerseys 
were selected one by one from Massa¬ 
chusetts to Oregon, and from Wiscon¬ 
sin to Tennessee. To quote from a 
Jersey publication. “Never was more 
intelligent and careful care lavished 
upon animals. No athlete was ever 
better trained for a contest than has 
been the herd of Jerseys for a solid 
year. Though 25 cows will partici¬ 
pate in the test, 40 were chosen. They 
were assembled at Jerseyville, Ill., a 
year ago, and have become acclimated. 
Last December they were moved to Stl 
Louis.” 
This was the herd, fitted and accli¬ 
mated. at a large expense—given by 
some papers at the time as $600 per 
cow, not inclusive of the value of the 
cow herself — pitted against 15 cows, 
largely untried, owned by three enthu¬ 
siastic breeders of Holstein-Friesians. 
In view of the results too well known 
to need recapitulation, what a won¬ 
derful victory! What conclusive evi¬ 
dence of the value of the Jersey cow 
in the hands of the farmer. 
However, this is not my reason for 
writing. I am surprised that a man 
of the ability of Mr. Morse should 
write as he does in the last paragraph 
of the article already cited. Wouldn’t 
it be a fairer comparison and wouldn’t 
r show more consistent reasoning if 
Mr. Morse likened wormy apples to 
unsanitary milk and insisted that ap¬ 
ples to be salable should contain a cer¬ 
tain percentage of sugar? Why not 
make it a crime to sell potatoes con¬ 
taining less than a definite, amount of 
starch ? Such standards eVery man 
would recognize as foolish and ab¬ 
surd. and just as absurd is a standard 
which interferes with the sale of pure 
milk as it comes from the cow. Mr. 
Morse asks “why should not the dairy¬ 
man keep his cows' healthy, his stables 
clean and, incidentally, produce milk 
of good value as food?” He should. 
And if there is a cow capable of pro¬ 
ducing “milk of good value for food” 
that cow is the Holstein cow. 
The root of the whole trouble in the 
milk question is the mistaken idea that 
milk is simply a vehicle for convey¬ 
ing a certain amount of fat. This is 
what legislators are usually talking 
about when they try to make rules gov¬ 
erning the milk supply. The R. N.-Y. 
would do a great service to all con¬ 
cerned by bringing home, to the people 
the fundamental truth, that the work 
of a cow is not first and foremost to 
produce as large an amount of butter 
fat as possible in as small as possible 
an amount of fluid whose composition 
is immaterial, but rather to produce 
the most perfect all-around food ex¬ 
isting in nature—and to produce this 
food in such form that no element in 
it shall be physiologically out of bal¬ 
ance with other elements. As to 
whether Holstein milk meets the re¬ 
quirements just stated let me quote 
from men whose opinion is of greater 
value than my own. 
Dr. Thomas Rotch, Professor of Pe¬ 
diatrics, Harvard Medical School, says, 
“Now from a medical point of view 
the Holstein milk is exactly what we 
find best for infant feeding, and is an 
extremely good milk for anyone to 
drink.” Dr. J. A. Gibbert, author of 
“The Choice of Cow’s Milk,” writes, 
“The milk richest in cream is not the 
most nutritious, for the simple reason 
that it is less easily digested than a 
milk in which the fat percentage is 
low. and Holstein milk most nearly fills 
the reouirements' of good milk.” Dr. 
Lamson Allen, Worcester, Mass., gives 
his opinion as follows: “After a care¬ 
ful investigation and study of the sub¬ 
ject of milk I find that the milk of the 
Holstein cow contains more nutrients 
in its fats and its solids not fat, both 
for the infant and adult, than that of 
any other breed. It has the largest 
element of vitality in its make-up, and 
moreover the freedom of the Holstein 
from tuberculosis makes it of superior 
value applying to the adult, the con¬ 
valescent, the healthy, as well as the 
infant in equal ratio. Scores of simi¬ 
lar opinions might be quoted, but it 
is unnecessary, especially to those who 
have given the matter study, and, in 
view of the facts, a law, liable to be 
broken by natural and unforeseen fluc¬ 
tuations in test is detrimental to the 
best interests of both producer and 
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