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“She RURAL NEW-YORKER 
HOPE FARM NOTES 
The Rei> Hens. —I cannot say with 
truth that my 10 Red pullets at the 
Vineland contest contributed greatly to 
the egg siipi)ly of the nation. I doubt 
if half of them paid for their feed. If 
they had )>cen sent back home from col¬ 
lege as w'o\ild have happened to children 
with a similar record, not even this fa¬ 
mous Rule 14 from Mr. Hoover would 
have saved their necks. They may, how¬ 
ever, contribute to potiltry knowledge if 
not to tlie egg supply. These birds are 
still at the contest—no longer giddy pul¬ 
lets, but sedate old hens—and we have 
the 21 w’eeks’ records for compari.son. 
IVHien we find fault with the expensive 
<*ollege antics of the young w’c are told 
to wait until they .sober down and eat 
the oatmeal from their wild oats and see 
if it be food or medicine. 
Hen Work.^ —I have heard much argu¬ 
ment as to w’hether it pays to keep twm- 
year-old birds. -Many hen men depend on 
pullets alone for their market eggs. After 
the first season they select w'hat they 
think are the best layers, considering rec¬ 
ord and pedigree and vigor, and use them 
as breeders. The rest of the pullets are 
sold, since they ar<! now hen.s, and, on 
these farms, no hen need apply 
for the job. This plan seems to 
be followed on Leghorn farms in particu¬ 
lar'—the theory being much the same as 
that attributed to Dr. Osier some years 
ago. This scientist was reported as say¬ 
ing that the average man never originated 
much of anything after he got to be 45, 
and that at CO he might Avell be chloro- 
formt^l! It seems that Osier never said 
just that, but the foolish report did great 
injury and injustice to many • vigorous 
people W'hose hair had begun to turn gray. 
This war, among other great things, has 
exploded this foolish notion that experi¬ 
ence has no value over mere energy. You 
will see that the Avar is being directed and 
organized and pushe<l on by men who, ac¬ 
cording to this Osier .story, should have 
been chloroformed! 
Hen Record.— 1 A\-ill give below the 
record of my 10 hems. The figures shoAV 
what they have done thus far in their sec¬ 
ond year, a comj)arison A\’ith their first 
year and AA^hat I call the record of lazi¬ 
ness, or the number of weeks since they 
started. The lirst two columns show A\'hat 
each hen ‘did in the first 21 Aveeks of this 
year, as compared AA'ith the year before. 
Then follows the total yield of each hen 
from Nov. 1, 1917. The Idle weeks 
stand for the number of w’eeks out of the 
total of 73 which each hen laid a zero, or 
no eggs at all. 
Total 
21 
21 
73 
Idle 
weeks 
weeks 
Avecks 
Aveeks 
Name 
1917 
1918 
Polly . 
.. 54 
85 
223 
13 
Belle . 
.. 85 
37 
195 
23 
Queeu .... 
.. 30 
1 
101 
47 
Betty M. . 
. . 7f) 
64 
260 
20 
Charity ... 
.. 52 
05 
211 
26 
Faith .... 
.. 80 
43 
211 
18 
Hope . 
.. 74 
39 
169 
26 
Success ... 
, 30 
31 
135 
37 
Rufa . 
o 
29 
109 
45 
Pollyanna 
... 37 
45 
194 
26 
519 
439 
Which Shatx It Be'?—N ow, in this 
record, AS’hich would you take if you Av^ere 
hunting for mothers of next year’s pul¬ 
lets? That is what it comes to, for this 
year a breeding experiment is under way. 
For instance, I have put as fine a cock¬ 
erel as I could find with these 10 hens, 
and eggs from each one Avill be incubated. 
Next year a pullet from each of those 
hens Aviil start a third year’s contest to 
see Avhat they inherit from their mothers. 
I have the privilege of trying pullets or 
cockerels from any of these hens. Noav, 
the question is, on their record, AV'hich 
bii-ds would you select as mothers? I am 
satisfied that you cannot make your se¬ 
lection as you Avould in the case of a calf 
or a colt—on the mother’s record. 
Culling Out. —ily first choice is Pol¬ 
ly. Her breeding is good and she is Avell 
made and strong. She may not have laid 
as many eggs as Betty M., but she has 
stuck to her job better. The record shows 
that she has never been idle more than 
three Aveeks at one time. Now, Belle and 
Queen are sisters of Polly, yet see the dif¬ 
ference. My belief is that most poulti-y 
men would select Queen as best—on her 
shape and appearance. Yet she was idle 
47 weeks, during Avhich time she did her 
full share at the feed dish! Running at 
large in .a flock I will guarantee that 
eight out of 10 people would pick Queen 
rather than Polly as a suitable breeder! 
I think this lazy drone is aa’cII named from 
what I leara of the industrial habits of 
most queens. I think if Mr. Hoover .saw her 
record he AAmuld be very willing to Avmive 
his rule in her case and let anyone treat 
her as Mary Queen of Scots was treated. 
My next choice for hen mother is Betty 
M. She led the procession as a pullet 
and did not have too many lazy AA'ceks. 
Her longest vacation was seven Aveeks, 
and .she did not seem to molt until .Tauu- 
aj-y of this year. Faith and Hope are 
hei’ sisters. KnoAving the blood well, I 
Avill pick Faith for third mother. It is 
true that Faith has fallen off this year, 
but I will back her. Then comes Polly- 
anna. This bird Avas bred and rai.sed at 
Hope Farm. Her mother laid 234 eggs in 
a year and her father comes of laying 
.stock. She is a good specimen, and I 
Avill take her for No. 4. And there I 
stop. That Rufa is a sister of Pollyanna 
and a .strong, vigorous bird, but think of 
those long 45 Aveeks of idlene.ss! I shall 
take a few cockerels from Polly and pul¬ 
lets from all four of the birds I have 
named, and let the re.st go. No doubt 
some expert will come along and find, by 
handling, that other pullets are must bet¬ 
ter, but I think I will try these four. 
The Second Year. —But did it pay to 
keep these birds over into their second 
year? In the case of Polly, Betty M., Char¬ 
ity, Pollyanna and po.ssibly Faith, I think 
it did, for many of their eggs were laid 
Avhile prices Avere very high. I figure 
that there must be at least 45 eggs from 
the hen up to April 1 to pay for feed. As 
to the other five birds, they evidently did 
not pay and on a commercial plant they 
should haA’e been sold last Pall. Rufa 
AA’as idle 1.3 weeks at the beginning of this 
year, and Success 12 weeks. Think of 
compelling a man to carry such bird.s 
along and feed them high-priced grain. 
Yet that is AV’hat many farmers are doing, 
Some of these lazy drones sing and preen 
themselves in the yard until they pass 
for great workers. I conclude that one 
great trouble AAuth the chicken business 
is that men think certain hens are laying 
the golden egg, when, in truth, they are 
laying only “gold brick.s.” 
Expression. —'Let us jump for a mo¬ 
ment fi'om hens to children. It i.s not 
such a gi'cat leap, for there is much “hu¬ 
man nature” in a hen. What is the most 
important thing in the education of a 
child? I think it is the power of expres¬ 
sion—the ability to express with tongue 
or pen what they have in them. It looks 
to me as if many teachers simply try to 
jam and crowd a lot of dry facts into the 
child, when they should try to get him 
to giA’e up what he has. What is the 
good of a fact unless it can be made over 
and applied in the human brain, and then 
given out in original form? Therefore 
the basis of all spund education is the 
power to used good, sturdy English. Too 
many children go through life Avithout 
true language, and they are always held 
back because they cannot express them¬ 
selves. Our own children are taught at 
home until they are 12 years old or more, 
and Mother drills them over and over in 
writing and speaking correct English. As 
a result I am sure these children at 14 
years can write a better letter than many 
college graduates, for they have learned 
to express themselves clearly. Perhaps I 
may speak of one thing which has helped 
.in this drill. I do not hear well and the 
April 13, 191S 
children have learned to write out their 
message when they want to make sure 
that I get it. i^o you Avill often see them 
toiling aw.ay with pencil and paper, and 
finally coming to hand me the straggling 
record. What they write is always clear 
and crisp and right to the point, for little 
fingers are not as limber as little tongues, 
and the slow process of writing acts like 
a big blue pencil to edit out the useless 
words. Thus a deaf man may in hia way 
contribute a little toward education. Per¬ 
haps if there was such a person in every 
family—well, there Avmuld be a great test 
of character and charity anyway! 
Easter. —I thought of this on Easter 
Sunday. I noticed the tAvo little girls 
planning something, and soon they got a 
piece of paper and after much discussion 
wrote a letter to me. I wish I could 
have it engraved—spelling and all. They 
told me how there AAms a colored girl in 
the neighboi'hood sick with “tubekeloisis.” 
Wouldn’t I hitch up Bob and go Avith 
them and let them carry to her one of the 
hyacinths we had for Easter? They 
wrote it all out clearly, and you could see 
what lay betAveen the lines. The Hope 
Farm man is to be counted in for such 
things, so in due time oft’ we drove. It 
seemed as if the sentiment in that flower 
ought to be backed by something a little 
more substantial, so a dozen eggs and .a 
can of milk went along, too. Bob is still 
shedding his hair freely and any style he 
eA'er had vanished years ago. I must 
confess that our Easter procession was a 
little slow and shabby, but no one out on 
Fifth Avenue displayed the ncAV hat and 
dress as proudly as our little girls car¬ 
ried their floAver and their eggs. I hoj)e 
that the rest of you had something of the 
same feeling! Strange, but I hear of a 
young woman AA’ho came home from the 
Easter parade and cried because so feAv 
people noticed her new hat! h .w. c. 
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