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Practical Experiences of Pouitrymen 
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Breeding for Utility. 
I have been very much interested in 
Mr. Cosgrove’s accounts of the egg-laying 
contest. In regard to tho proposal to 
send to Mr. Barron for males, would it 
not be better to send for eggs or both 
sexes, so as to have the full influence of 
his blood instead of only one half? My 
work is in Bill selection of seed potatoes. 
I find in that, like with poultry, that lit¬ 
tle or nothing has been done to produce 
strains based on productivity. Instead the 
production of new varieties has been the 
fad. I would like to see an experiment 
carried out for 50 years with 20.000 fowls 
as follows: First, cross all breeds to¬ 
gether times enough to completely destroy 
the prepotency as to feathers, etc. Then 
select on basis of egg production and con¬ 
stitutional vigor, and if desired, on meat. 
I would base selection as to egg produc¬ 
tion on two or three years’ production, be¬ 
cause the pullet producing heavily may be 
too reduced in vitality to ho a good breeder. 
Possibly this may account for main results. 
Tioga Co., N. Y. D. d. 
Of course the blood of Mr. Barron’s 
White Leghorn stock could be obtained 
quicker by using both sexes, or by pur¬ 
chasing eggs. But the first year’s chicks, 
using one of his males, would be half 
the blood of his stock, and mating the 
same cock with his pullets makes the 
second lot three-quarters blood, and the 
next season seven-eighths his stock. A 
vigorous White Leghorn cock would be 
good until four or five years old. There 
would also he an advantage in the un¬ 
related mating, the crossing of the 
American and the English strains. 
This man’s work with potatoes for 
seed is in the right line; it’s wonderful 
to read what has already been done by 
seed selection in the cereals. Produc¬ 
tion has been largely increased, in some 
cases nearly doubled by seed selection 
alone. Prof. East, while connected with 
the New Haven, Conn., Experiment Sta¬ 
tion, succeeded in increasing the pro¬ 
tein content of corn from an average 
of 7 per cent up to 16 per cent, by seed 
selection. Experiments have largely in¬ 
creased the starch content of potatoes, 
showing that quality and food value can 
be increased as well as amount of pro¬ 
duction. 
D. D.’s idea about crossing all breeds 
for 50 years, etc., would be a rather 
lengthy experiment for the American 
people; we are too rapid, too “soon” a 
people to wait 50 years for anything. 
In any case, I don’t see that indiscrim¬ 
inate crossing—no matter how long con¬ 
tinued—could ever produce anything 
but mongrels; with no fixed type for 
either meat or egg production. And 
yet I must confess that I have always 
had a sort of a “hankering” to cross 
breeds, just to see what would happen. 
If I was one of the shamefully rich 
(for I hold that a man worth a million 
dollars or more is shamefully, often 
shamelessly, and sometimes scoundrelly 
rich), I would mate up all kinds of 
poultry in different combinations, and 
keep records of results, just for the fun 
of the tiling. CEO A. COSGROVE. 
Lame Fowls. 
We have some White Wyandotte cock¬ 
erels, May hatched, put in a coop to 
fatten. Some become weak in their legs, 
seemed to be paralyzed in both legs, and 
are helpless. They eat as heartily as ever. 
Can we do anything for them? i. r. 
New Jersey. 
Tliis condition may be due to rheuma¬ 
tism or to the heavy feeding these cock¬ 
erels are subjected to. If to the former, 
they should be removed to a warm und 
dry place that is free from drafts or cold 
winds, while greater liberty and less food 
will probably correct the trouble if due 
to the latter cause mentioned. M. B. i>. 
A New Trap-nest. 
I would like your advice about a trap- 
nest I have invented and tested on a pen 
of 34 hens and pullets. What I wanted 
was a nest that would release the hen and 
still he able to tell which one laid. My 
nest will do this if you do not put more 
than 25 or 30 hens together; it will take 
but a few minutes at night. People who 
hnve seen this nest work advise me to 
apply for a patent. I)o you think there is 
any demand for a nest of this kind? I 
do not want to spend the money for a 
patent unless there is a chance of getting 
it hack. l. d. 
Monticcllo, N. Y. 
We would suggest corresponding with 
some of the prominent manufacturers of 
poultry supplies, ‘and getting their esti¬ 
mates of the value of such an invention as 
you describe. They are in better position 
than anyone else to know what the de¬ 
mand would likely be, and if you can 
convince them that you have something of 
positive value, you may be able to make 
satisfactory arrangements with them for 
controlling its manufacture. Trap-nests arc 
easily made, and plans for them may he 
found in poultry literature. Those that 
attempt to release the hen while keeping 
track of her production, are necessarily 
somewhat complicated, and. so far as we 
know, not altogether reliable. You will, 
therefore, be likely to find the poultry pub¬ 
lic somewhat skeptical and hailing from 
Missouri. M. B. D. 
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