1913. 
47 
THE RURAL, MEW-YORTCRR 
POULTRY SHOWS AND THE UTILITY 
POULTRYMAN. 
The true purpose of fairs and live¬ 
stock shows is to develop larger inter¬ 
est in choice stock and products, and 
thus to stimulate a more general inter¬ 
est in making improvement in all lines 
of agricultural production. Improve¬ 
ment, to be of real and lasting value, 
must be based on one of two essential 
points; these are larger production or 
better quality. Larger production 
means larger yields of farm crops and 
animal products, while better quality 
should refer to those characteristics 
which make the products of greater 
usefulness to mankind as a whole. 
Nearly all are agreed on the importance 
of increasing the production per acre, 
or per head of live stock, as the case 
may be, but there are some differences 
of opinion as to what constitutes quality. 
Many will argue that any characteristic 
that will increase the selling price of a 
product is a point of quality that should 
be developed. According to this view¬ 
point anything that adds to the beauty 
of farm animals, as seen by the artistic 
eye, adds to the real merits of the breed 
or animal. If we follow the history 
of the breeds of the larger farm ani¬ 
mals, such as cows and horses, we will 
see that several of them have passed 
through stages where beauty or “fancy 
points” were made a dominant charac¬ 
teristic, but always to the detriment of 
the useful qualities of the breed. About 
40 years ago the Jersey cow became 
popular on some <?f the great landed 
estates of England on account of its 
solid, fawn-like color and form, and 
there soon arose a strong demand for 
this type of Jersey. So great was the 
demand, that the breeders on the Island 
of Jersey began to select and breed for 
these characteristics, and animals of 
larger form and variable shading of 
color were rejected. The result . was 
that the size and productive qualities of 
the animals of this breed were, for 
a time, materially reduced. Fortunately 
this tendency in selection did not con¬ 
tinue long, for about this time the 
Americans were beginning to demand 
the Jersey, on account of its merits as 
a large producer of gilt-edged butter. 
The Dutch Belted cattle, which are only 
a modified Holstein, are rather novel 
and artistic, but a tendency to lay stress 
on this one characteristic, of a belt of 
white around the body, is developing a 
breed that does not equal in production 
the regular Holstein. It is generally 
known by horse breeders that the de¬ 
velopment of certain color marking is 
often attended by a weakness in cer¬ 
tain qualities of speed or endurance. 
If we apply this general principle to 
the selection and breeding of poultry, 
does it not follow that the common 
tendency to encourage fancy points is 
resulting in a reduction in useful quali¬ 
ties of lasting merit ? As long as poultry 
is selected and bred, and later handled 
and fed, so as to develop certain feather 
colors or combinations of feather 
colors, with little or no regard to form 
or laying qualities, these latter useful 
points must be sacrificed. If this ten¬ 
dency is practiced among several gene¬ 
rations, the fancy points become, after 
a time, dominant ones, while the utility 
points become latent. The poultry 
fancier takes the ground that whatever 
increases the selling price of poultry 
increases its value and of course, this 
is true to the man who is to sell, but 
is the extensive use of funds, and especi¬ 
ally of public funds, warranted and to 
be encouraged, in the offering of prizes? 
A poultry fancier has been known to 
say that he would gladly pay $50 for a 
certain prize winning hen, even if he 
knew she w : ould not lay a dozen eggs 
in a year. 
The standards of points for the dif¬ 
ferent breeds say very little about form, 
giving only standard weights, and, in 
much detail, the feather markings, com!) 
points, and absence or presence of any 
kind of feathers on the legs. Is there 
any relation between body form and 
egg production? The absence of all 
reference to form or “build” would 
lead one to say there was not. The 
dairyman, however, has learned better 
than this. He has been led to believe 
that, in accordance with the law of cor¬ 
relation, a certain form, as manifested 
by external characteristics, does indicate 
high milking qualities, and certain other 
external characteristics do indicate 
quality of milk. Some of our more 
modern experimenters have shown the 
same things as to poultry. That is, 
that a certain form of body and car¬ 
riage does indicate high egg production, 
and its lack, low egg production. Practi¬ 
cal poultrymen, who are close observers, 
will agree too, that they can, by close 
observation for a season, tell which 
fowls are their best layers, and that a 
certain body-form runs throughout the 
group that constitutes the best layers. 
Why should not our poultry shows take 
more notice of this? Is it not possible 
to develop a scale of points, by actual 
measurements, that will show what 
bodily form is nearest related to high 
egg production? We are told that one 
of our New England stations is en¬ 
deavoring to work out some “law of 
shape” that will indicate high egg pro¬ 
duction. If this can be done it will 
certainly be a long step in advance of 
anything yet in use in judging poultry. 
Then again, why should we not have 
prizes offered for the highest egg yields 
by authenticated records? Productive 
capacity is the true measure of real 
value, as much with poultry as with 
dairy cows. “Registries of merit” or 
“advanced registries” have been estab¬ 
lished as a means of recognizing this 
principle in cattle. Why should we not 
have registries of merit in the case of 
poultry? I recognize the fact that the 
two functions, that of milk production 
and egg production, are quite different. 
That an unusual tendency to develop 
egg production may weaken the consti¬ 
tutions of the mother and the young, 
more than an unusual development in 
milk production would in case of the 
cow and the calf. However, I believe 
that if prizes were offered for the 
highest pullet-year production, and all 
breeders were encouraged to breed and 
handle for breeding vigor the second 
year, and advised to breed only from 
two-year-olds, very little, if any, harm 
would result to the breeding vigor of 
the fowls. CHAS. s. PHELPS. 
More of these Fool Game Laws. 
My nearest neighbor on the west has 
recently been arrested for killing a 
’coon. In common with the rest of us 
he has lost heavily by the depredations 
of animals of one sort or another that 
have visited his chicken yard. It hap¬ 
pened that one morning in September 
my neighbor found two ’coons in a tree 
near his chickens. Calling to a neigh¬ 
bor who resides near to come and help 
he proceeded to kill the ’coons. Noth¬ 
ing in particular was thought about the 
matter for some time until one day 
when the family came home they found 
the skin of one of the ’coons missing. 
Soon after a game officer who resides 
in the village called up and demanded 
$25 from each of the neighbors for kill¬ 
ing ’coons out of season. For some 
days and perhaps for weeks there were 
discussions and messages as to fines, 
until finally the officer agreed to settle 
for $5 each, mindful undoubtedly of 
the half of the fine that would come to 
his own pocket. One of the men paid 
the money rather than have any trou¬ 
ble or expense in the matter. The 
other man did not believe it right to 
pay a fine, however small, for protect¬ 
ing his own property on his own prem¬ 
ises, and he refused to pay. Then the 
officer, acting as it appears under the 
directions of the State Conservation 
Commission, made the arrest and held 
the trial. My neighbor was convicted 
and sentenced to pay a fine of $10. A 
stay was granted to allow the attorney 
to look up laws further to see if it is 
possible to win on an appeal. 
Now this is a pretty pass. The idea 
that farmers must submit to all sorts of 
injury and annoyance just to accom¬ 
modate a set of fellows from city and 
town who have secured laws to meet 
their own notions is wrong. This far¬ 
mer had lost well towards a hundred 
chickens. He had tried all Summer tr 
catch the destroyers, and finally suc¬ 
ceeded. As the attorney said, if a man 
went into the henhouse and molested 
poultry the owner had a right to shoot, 
but if a ’coon gets in there he must not 
be disturbed. ’Coons, skunks and the 
like are “protected,” but not so with 
chickens, cows and men. Hunters 
roam over our farms, and every now 
and then they shoot down a fine heifer 
or cow, but they are never caught. The 
present condition must be stopped in 
some way and it is high time the laws 
were amended if a man cannot protect 
his property. It is said if a man finds 
some animal in his henhouse he must 
go or send to the Conservation Com¬ 
mission for permission to drive it out 
or kill it. This is according to the 
strict wording of the law. I suppose 
that my neighbor was fined really be¬ 
cause he took off the hide of the ’coon 
and hung it up. But tell me what harm 
that did after the animal was dead. 
Chenango Co., N. Y. h. h. lyon. 
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Per G. F. M. 
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R. D. No. 1, Roachdale, Ind., 
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Chrisman, Ill. 
I used your Sal-Vet regularly 
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