37a 
March 8, 
THE RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
The Henyard. 
THE “COMING” LAYING HEN. 
the pet animals, and breaking down fences? 
Yet this is what is done every day during 
gunning season out in the country. Chick¬ 
ens, ducks, cats and other domestic animals 
and fowls are their lawful prey. Two men 
with three dogs gunned over my lawns 
and laughed at my objections. My place 
In reading the statements of egg produc . _ _ 
tion in this famous experiment, I fail to n °t posted, neither is the city man’s 
see anything very remarkable in the way »y what divine right has the city man 
of results, and it is safe to say that b ? en thus privileged and protected beyond 
fancy feathering, and a high score of eggs bls country cousin ? Class legislation is 
are rarely found in the same pen. The said to unconstitutional. This can not 
fancier who breeds for fancy points may b ? called other than unequal rights for 
make a success so far as premiums in different property owners. The distinction 
the show-room are concerned, but when you i s too obviously unfair to be legal, 
question him as to the egg record, you do Jersey. w. c. b. 
not often hear him boast. And the mislead- p, r nr 
ing advice which poultry papers offer to rian tor nennouse. 
amateurs in the poultry business is to se- I desire to build a poultry house next 
cure purebreds to start the flock. It is a Summer and have thought favorably of the 
fact that a flock, uniform in color and following plan: House 20 feet wide; 70 feet 
markings, is a delight to the eye, and a long, with pens 20 feet square, to accom- 
pride to the owner, but, aside from the modate 100 hens each; the remaining 10 
crowd who are in the deal to breed fancy feet to be used for feed and other supplies 
fluff and feathers for big prices, to the I think favorably of a combination roof 
ordinary run of people who look to the 1- e -> one slanting both ways. I am not 
egg basket for the best returns, these so- sure , ab out the material to be used for 
called prize-winners prove a delusion and building, but have thought of a 4-inch ce- 
disappointment. Considering the immense nient wall, in which wooden blocks are 
amount of pains and care and pampering placed so that strips may be nailed to them 
these birds in this contest receive, I fail and siding put on on the outside, leaving 
to see where they excel hundreds of other an a l r space between the sidings and the 
flocks of good common stock that get ordi- cement wall. The roof to be covered prob- 
nary care, and mixed breeds at that. Call abl J T with some good roofing paper or shin- 
them mongrels, or what vou like, I can S. les - Wl11 J'ou please criticise and suggest 
take cross-breds of a half dozen of the changes in the outline, as given above; 
standard varieties, and from their progeny would also like suggestions about the interi- 
m. j. s. 
Colorado 
Your plan and dimensions are good, 
* ■* wu viiv c a tr u vui v uUV* 11 Cd 11UCU l n 
outclass them as layers in nine cases out of D 
10. I have a flock of mixed birds, bred 
from W. Leghorns, R. I. Reds, Plymouth . _ _, 
Rocks, B. Leghorns, Minorcas, etc., and of though it is not necessary to provide for 
all shades from black to white and be- the air space as you suggest; a solid ce- 
tween; and I fail to see anything in this ment wall is equally good provided that 
contest so far as egg record is concerned you ventilate it sufficiently to prevent the 
that is worth bragging about, when com- accumulation of moisture upon the interior 
pared with many flocks in this locality, walls. An open front facing the south will 
and considering the extra efforts made to enable you to do this. Use roofing paper 
crowd them for the best that is in them, instead of shingles, as your roof will be too 
From my flock I can select a pen that will dab to make the latter durable, and arrange 
hold their own with anything that has as the interior with removable fixtures to facili- 
yet shown up in the record, and I conclude tate the keeping.of the house free from lice 
these expensive birds, in the hands of an ? nd niites. Divide the front about equally 
ordinary poultryman, would prove very dis- between open space, glass, and solid wall, 
appointing. To us who are not in the carrying the windows to the plate to admit 
deal for big reputation as breeders, and sun , . the rear of building. Provide a drop 
fancy prices, the contents of the egg- cur ^ ai . n A ^°, r the front of the perches if 
basket are the main thing to strive for. pceded to keep the fowl s combs from freez- 
As for meat production, my birds at matur- tug on zero nights, and unless you have 
ity weigh from five to eight pounds, so roa | on tor dividing your flock into 
there is no loss on that score, so far as three parts, use no interior partitions, but 
cross-breds are concerned. The suggestion the entire build- 
of D. D. on page 155 is a good one as to 
a few years of mixed breeding to test re¬ 
sults. While G. A. C. may scoff at “mon¬ 
grels’’ I fail to see where his “fixed type,” 
M. B. D. 
ing aside from feed room, 
Breeding Stock With Colds 
o _ ______ ; ___t have a fine lot of Barred P. Rocks 
so called', has any practical value save which had a cold last Fall, not serious, 
for those who make it a specialty to stock J" an I use. them as breeders without lower- 
up the show-room or are in the arena to , ? the vitality. They eat well and have 
exploit the fad for fancy feathers, and se- laid well since New Year’s, but some have 
cure excessive prices from those of means, swelling round eyes yet. j. s. 
and who care more for peculiar marking Connecticut, 
than business results. The ordinary farm- Slight colds from which they have fully 
er, or suburban dweller cannot afford to recovered need not bar hens from the 
hire an expert to nurse his flocks. What breeding pen, though we should discard anv 
he needs is something that will turn a fair that still show evidences of their sickness 
profit, with fair outlay of care, and right in swollen beads or eyes; using only those 
here is where the mixed breeds (not scrubs, which by their bright combs and alert bear- 
hut from good blood), with their relatively ing show that they are in full vigor. 
low cost at the start, prove the most sat¬ 
isfactory all around. Breeding for fancy 
feathers is all proper if that is one’s hobby ; 
but most of us who keep small flocks as a 
side line are after something that counts 
in the way of income. o. w. 
Oak Hill, "N. Y. 
On some points I agree with O. W., on 
others I decidedly disagree. For instance, 
I fail to see what could possibly be gained 
by a general mix-up of all breeds “for 50 
years,” as suggested by D. D. It seems to 
me there would be a big loss. Does O. W. 
think that if we should take all the breeds 
of cows, Jerseys, Ilolsteins, Guernseys, etc., 
and let them all run together, and breed 
promiscuously for say 20 years, there would 
be any individuals among them that would 
give as much milk and butter as our best 
specimens do now? Isn’t there anything in 
“family,” in good qualities transmitted from 
ancestors who have been selected for good 
performance for many years? Hasn’t there 
been bred into a good Jersey or Holstein 
bull a prepotency to transmit to his de¬ 
scendants the good qualities of a long line 
of ancestors, in the way of milk production, 
as well as conforming to a “fixed type” of 
color, shape, and so on? 
Admit that any one of our breeds of 
fowls are "the best layers.” Let us say 
the White Leghorns are (it makes no dif¬ 
ference what breed we select). Is breeding 
onto these Leghorns some admittedly poorer 
laying breed going to improve the laying of 
the progeny? 
And now I am going to make a conces¬ 
sion to O. W.’s argument. I will admit 
that often the first cross, both in plants 
and animals, will show a gain, but the 
constant tendency is to revert and to run 
down to the average level again. It is by 
“line breeding,” with continuous selection 
of the best, that we are most likely to 
gain anything in egg production. The 
White Leghorns in the Australian contests 
were bred to White Leghorns until the 
world’s record was made at the last con¬ 
test, when the six birds in the leading pen 
averaged 264.8 eggs in the year. 
The pity is that this “line breeding” has 
been conducted mainly by fanciers to re¬ 
produce certain colors and shapes; simply 
because there was more money and more 
honor in winning at a big show, and selling 
eggs for hatching, than there was in pro¬ 
ducing good market eggs. But one of the 
great gains or benefits of these egg-laying 
contests is, that the utility end of the 
business is coming to the front, and the 
man who thereby proves that he has the 
best will not have to sell his eggs and 
fowls at market prices, geo. a. cosgkove. 
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