1912. 
THE RURAL* NEW-YORKER 
611 
THE EGG LAYING CONTEST. 
For the first time in many weeks the 
number of eggs laid failed to surpass 
the record of the previous week. The 
twenty-first week furnished 2,301 as 
against 2,310 for the twentieth week. 
This loss of nine eggs for the week is 
very trifling; a much greater loss is to 
be expected when broodings takes hold 
of the larger breeds. There is where 
the Leghorns will gain on the American 
breeds. Of course means will be taken 
to “break up” the sitters, but that will 
take several days, during which the 
non-sitters will be gaining. It is quite 
a significant fact that none of the Asi¬ 
atic breeds were entered in this egg- 
laying contest, with the exception of 
one pen of Black Langshans. These, 
however, have made a very fair record, 
having laid 236 eggs; 26 last week. I 
have heard Light Brahma breeders 
boast that “their hens would lay as 
many eggs in a year as Leghorns.” 
But none of the feathered-legged breeds 
—except the Langshans—were entered. 
The owners of Light and Dark Brah¬ 
mas, Black, Buff and White Cochins, 
evidently did not think it worth while 
to try. The highly important thing 
about these breeds is that they have 
feathers on their middle toes; otherwise 
the poultry judge condemns them at> 
once. I presume the judges all know 
just what benefit it is to these breeds 
to have feathers on the middle toe, 
but I have never found out what the 
benefit was, or is. 
To get back to the contest; the 
Plymouth Rocks take the honors this 
week. W. J. Tilley’s White Rocks, and 
Reed and Lloyd's Barred Rocks tie foi; 
first place with a score of 31 eggs each. 
The Barred Rocks of Logue and San¬ 
ford and the White Wyandottes of 
Woodside Poultry Farm tie for second 
place with a score of 30 eggs to each 
pen. The Single Comb Reds of LI. P. 
Deming and Bunker Hill Farm and the 
White Orpingtons of Gilbert and Moore, 
laid 29 eggs in each pen. Two pens of 
R. I. Reds, and one pen of Barred 
Rocks laid 28 eggs each, and pens lay¬ 
ing 25, 26 or 27 were numerous. The 
high scores, it will be noted, are all 
from the American breeds; but two 
pens of the White Leghorns laid 27, 
and five pens 26 each. Those English 
White Leghorns are still in the lead 
with a score of 417; this is nearly 20 
eggs for every week since the contest 
began last November. The rumor is 
current that Mr. Barron has been of¬ 
fered a thousand dollars for the pen. 
He was the winner also of a contest in 
Australia. Evidently he has a “strain” 
of good layers, and I doubt if they will 
ever go back to England if money can 
buy them. The Orpingtons are also 
making a very good showing; one Buff 
Orpington pullet owned by O. Wilson 
has laid 46 eggs in 49 days and a White 
Orpington has laid 39 eggs in 42 days. 
Two of R. S. Roberts’ Buff Orpingtons 
laid every day in the week. F. G. 
Yost’s White Leghorns hold second 
place with a total score of 368, and 
two pens of R. I. Reds are tied with 
a score of 360 each for third place. 
Five of the nine pens of Orpingtons 
have scores of 343, 336, 334, 331 and 
321; and the average for the week for 
each pen is 24 eggs. If the White 
Wyandottes had laid one more egg, the 
average for each of the eight pens 
would be just 25 eggs. The average 
for the White Leghorns is 23.9; the 
average for the White P. Rocks is 26, 
and for the Barred Rocks, 25.5; 22,391 
eggs have been laid since the contest 
began last November, and the fowls 
have not been let out of their houses 
in all that time, nearly five months. 
This is a pretty good demonstration of 
what hens can do in close confinement, 
if their zvants are all supplied. 
GEO. A. COSGROVE. 
Hogs in Florida. 
I thoroughly sympathize with your ef¬ 
forts to prevent people from buying 
Florida land without first seeing it. but 
do you not think hogs should be profitable? 
As I understand it. Lespedeza and other 
clovers, cow peas, Velvet beans, sweet po¬ 
tatoes, peanuts, etc., will grow well on al¬ 
most any Florida land and are all good pig 
feeds. I have been considering this ques¬ 
tion for thi’ee or four years and I should 
think that pork could be produced at least 
as cheaply in Florida as anywhere in the 
United States. J. L. p. 
New York. 
There is little doubt as to the possibili¬ 
ties of meat marketing in Florida. A great 
abundance of forage crops may be grown 
and we know of men who are doing well 
in this line. The trouble is that people 
expect to go right from the North and 
start at once pulling money out of the 
Florida soil. There is where they fail, for 
it will require several years to learn how 
to conduct a farm in that country. Hog 
cholera, as elsewhere, must be guarded 
against, and there are so many hogs on 
the range that the disease is readily spread. 
The cattle tick is a curse to imported cattle. 
FROM AN IMPORTED CITIZEN. 
The way you are handing it to “careful 
consideration” Senators certainly deserves 
commendation. Oh, they need looking 
after, these smiling, smirking, oily gentry ! 
We of the Farmers’ Union are going after 
them in much the same fashion as you are. 
If only the farmers all over the country 
can rouse themselves sufficiently and shake 
off the lethargy of the centuries, why, the 
various Senates and Houses will be the ob¬ 
jects of—well, yes—both very and moat, 
careful consideration, on the part of the 
farmers. 
There are signs of a change for the bet¬ 
ter in the various strata of American citi¬ 
zenship. The workers and producers are 
getting restive, carrying, by the labor - of 
their hands, such an outrageous number of 
drones—though that's a wrong designa¬ 
tion, for these same fellows are always 
busy, working out plans to get the lion's 
share of the producer’s money. I was in¬ 
terested in the article signed “Dane.” I 
left old Denmark some years ago—knew, of 
course, that package post was there, but 
not just how it was done, being raised and 
educated as a clod-hopper. Since coming 
over I have been very happy in looking 
Into many books, on many subjects, and in 
several languages. Oh, it is a wonderful 
sensation for a poor greenhorn to experi¬ 
ence what liberty and independence means, 
coming “up from slavery,” as it were, by 
one’s own hands and aspiration. Former 
Europeans have, I think, a fuller realiza¬ 
tion as to the advantages of such things 
as package post, government ownership of 
railroads, government control of the police 
—the police force over yonder needs no 
oiling up (with spondulics) before it is in 
a position to get busy, let me tell you— 
and the like. Why, if a railroad employee 
would try to play havoc with trunks, 
freight, etc., as the custom is here, he’d be 
fired on the spot, and be sued for damages 
into the bargain. In Europe they have 
order about everything. But as a rule the 
poor man hasn’t the ghost of a show— 
born poor, you always remain poor, 
whether smart or dull, ambitious or care¬ 
less. Thus, every land has advantages and 
drawbacks of its own. 
Have you no Farmers’ Union organiza¬ 
tions in * the East? I believe that move¬ 
ment will prove a mighty lever in prying 
loose the detestable hordes of speculators, 
middlemen, humbuggers, boodlers, grafters, 
swindlers, hangers-on, and barnacles gen¬ 
erally (now, did I name them all?) from 
the life and existence of Labor. 
Kansas. jens dalbo. 
A Human Express Package. 
The Denver Post prints the following 
letter from a man who is in favor of par¬ 
cels post: 
“To-day I went into the railroad depot 
for the purpose of sending by express a 
roll of bedding to my son at Una, a dis¬ 
tance of five miles. The agent asked me 
if I wanted a ticket, and I said no ; I just 
wanted to send the bedding by express, and 
asked him what the charges would be. He 
asked mo what it would weigh and I told 
him about 50 pounds. He said it would be 
50 cents. Now, knowing the distance was 
about five miles, I asked what a ticket was 
worth, and he said 25 cents. So I bought 
a ticket and hnd the bedding checked, went 
outside and found a man who was going 
to Una; gave him the ticket. Now, by 
what manner of reckoning do express com¬ 
panies calculate that it is worth twice as 
much to carry that bundle in an express 
car as it is to carry it in the baggage car 
and a 200-pound man in the chair car over 
the same road and on the same train? My 
conclusion is that the express companies are 
robbing the people. I stand ready to make 
oath to this and you are at liberty to 
use it.” 
Here are the prices of a few things: 
First-class black and white* cows, new milk¬ 
ers, $65 to $75; hay, $18 per ton pressed; 
veal calves, 6% to 7% cents per pound; 
straw, $10 per ton; milk, $1.75 per 100; 
cheese, full cream chedder, 17 cents a 
pound; butter, fancy dairy. 30 cents per 
pound; potatoes, $1.25 per bushel; eggs, 18 
cents per dozen. j. l. w. 
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