THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
a2 2 
March 1, 
AN EXPERIENCE WITH HORSE GYPS. 
(Continued from j)age 31V) 
keep Morgan there until my friend re¬ 
turned. I refused every horse he of¬ 
fered me. Soon my friend returned 
with the two officers. Morgan and his 
partner’s appeared dumbfounded. The 
detectives walked up to us and I said: 
“This is your man.” The officer said: 
“Come with us; you are arrested on the 
charge of grand larceny.” They walked 
out with Morgan. I followed. One of 
the partners behind me said in a low 
voice: “I am rated at fifty thousand 
dollars and I will see this thing through 
if it takes three months.” I turned at 
once to him and said: “I will be right 
with you and you will find before you 
get through that I have as good men 
back of me as you.” No more was 
said, but before we had got a block the 
two partners were calling to us and 
trying to get us to take the money. The 
officer said: “No, you can pay that in 
court tomorrow.” 
We landed Morgan in police head¬ 
quarters, where he was locked up for 
the night. The officer said to me: 
“You will get your money back, but 
you are one in a hundred.” We had a 
hearing next morning in Jefferson Mar- 
get Police Court. Morgan had his at¬ 
torney. They pleaded not guilty, and 
said they were willing and always had 
been willing to pay the money back. I 
was given back my money and Morgan 
was released. I hope my experience 
may be of benefit to many of your 
readers. w. S. 
New York. 
“UTILITY” AND “FANCY.*’ 
Although rejoicing to see The R. 
N.-Y. opening up on the false and arbi¬ 
trary standards that now dominate poul¬ 
try breeding, I wish to enter a protest 
against further emphasis of the sup¬ 
posed distinction between “utility” and 
“fancy.” Constitutional vigor and 
fecundity are so closely associated in 
my mind, that I cannot see any national 
basis for recognition of the dual 
standard. If an early hatched pullet in¬ 
herits the vitality necessary to make 
standard weight within a reasonable 
time, it is only a question of handling 
whether she becomes a Winter layer or 
not. The fancier, having no use for 
Winter eggs, deliberately avoids their 
productions as a matter of course. In 
all other branches of the live stock in¬ 
dustry, form and color are distinctly 
economic factors. No good reason is 
therefore apparent why they should be 
ignored in poultry culture. But in com¬ 
parison with the important factor of 
egg production, form and color should 
certainly be relegated to second place. 
It is undoubtedly a fair assumption, that 
some kind of a production test to sup¬ 
plement the Standard of Perfection, 
would make for great progress in 
rational poultry breeding. 
The present system of working for 
yearly records falls far short of meet¬ 
ing the requirements. This period is 
purely arbitrary, and doubtless was 
taken over bodily from the dairy busi¬ 
ness. But while 12 months in the life 
of a cow represent but half the time re¬ 
quired to reach productive maturity, it 
is practically double the growing period 
in the life of a hen. The man who pro¬ 
poses to put a cow into a four year 
continuous test for advanced registry, 
would not get much of a following 
among practical dairymen. Similarly 
good poultry breeders will not submit 
their best birds to the sexual excess 
that is inseparable from the present egg 
laying contests. 
At the Maine Experiment Station, the 
production charts which Dr. Pearl has 
made up from the individual records 
of a large number of trap nested hens, 
show that the heavy Winter layer in¬ 
variably does correspondingly well at 
the other seasons of the year. In other 
words, the bird that is able to eat 
enough food in the short Winter days 
to carry her through the long, cold 
night, and then lay eggs besides, may 
always be depended upon in favorable 
environment. A contest covering the 
months of November, December and 
January therefore, should answer all 
the requirements, and avoid the insur¬ 
mountable objections to the longer term. 
In dairy breeding, great stress has been 
laid upon the “persistent milker.” Simi¬ 
larly, I think we ought to be on the 
lookout for the pullet with the most 
eggs in her first “string.” After that, 
bring on the fancy shapes and feathers. 
With a three months’ contest as above 
suggested, it would be possible to wind 
up the affair with a show, while the 
birds were yet in good plumage, and 
then give them a little rest before the 
breeding season. Thus the possibilities 
of quick returns through the eggs-for- 
hatching trade, should make such a con¬ 
test worth while for the very best 
breeders. In the long run, I should 
look to see it force a revision of the 
Standard to recognize the “long-bodied” 
or “egg type” of hen, especially in such 
breeds as the Wyandottes. Who can 
say that would not be a good thing? 
C. M. GALLUP. 
Windham County, Conn. 
Roupy Fowls. 
I have a few White Leghorn pullets with 
a lump on the side of the head, generally 
below the left eye, ranging in size from a 
pea to a walnut. I have been rubbing 
same everyday with capsicum vaseline, and 
giving them nothing to drink but water 
with roup cure in it. They are not getting 
better, in fact some more are catching the 
lumps. The affected birds have watery 
eyes. The henhouse lias no draughts at 
all, is perfectly dry. The only reason for 
the trouble that I can see is perhaps they 
are a little crowded at night; they have 
free range in the day. Can anything be 
done for the sick ones? They are penned 
up from the others. e. a. r. 
Maryland. 
Your pullets have a suspiciously roupy 
inflammation of the nasal passage and the 
conjunctival membrane lining the eyeball 
and socket. We should promptly isolate all 
affected birds, and give them perman¬ 
ganate of potassium in their drinking water 
while the quarters of the healthy pullets 
should be disinfected by whitewashing with 
lime wash containing four ounces of crude 
carbolic acid to the gallon, and their uten¬ 
sils should be thoroughly cleansed with 
boiling water. It is doubtful whether you 
can do anything for the fowls already badly 
affected, though the milder cases limy re¬ 
cover. M. B.‘ D. 
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