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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
January 3, 1920 
HOPE FARM NOTES 
The big New Year’s job which the people 
of Northern New Jersey must put over is 
the work of financing the new poultry 
contest and breeding experiment. Some¬ 
thing was said about it. last week. Now 
I want to give more details and make a 
personal appeal to all who keep hens 
or eat eggs and poultry. That will cover 
practically everyone who ranges between 
the cradle and the grave. There is no 
possible question about the great value of 
the Vineland contest. It has increased 
the value of property in South Jersey, 
because it has shown farmers the possi¬ 
bilities of poultry farming. The public 
will demand more and more eggs as the 
years go by, and the section close to the 
larger cities will find egg production more 
profitable. We are now going through a 
period of readjustment and reorganiza¬ 
tion of farming. Dairying and poultry 
keeping are two industries which, in the 
new order of things, will be more and 
more concentrated near the big markets. 
New Jersey and Southern New York are 
sure to have a great “hen boom” during 
the next 25 years. Looking ahead to that 
sure thing, we are all interested in mak¬ 
ing the business worth while. 
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That is what a well-conducted poultry 
contest does. The ^ ineland contest has 
brought out into the limelight a dozen 
or more of very superior flocks which 
few people know anything about. The 
owners of these flocks had developed birds 
of very superior laying qualities, but the 
general public knew little about them. 
When entered at the contest, birds from 
these flocks showed surprising value— 
some of them making world records at 
egg-laying. And when the daughters of 
these hens were in their turn tested, it 
was found that this egg-laying power was 
well fixed in the family or strain, so that 
the blood from these superior birds in¬ 
troduced into other flocks is increasing 
the egg production. In this way alone 
the Vineland contest has many times paid 
for itself in the influence it has had upon 
egg production in the State. The scrub 
hen is being scrubbed off the State as 
breeding stock from these record-making 
flocks is being distributed. 
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And the contest is doing another great 
thing—it is developing the utility bird. 
For many years our standards of poultry 
excellence were based largely on color 
and shape and feather marking. It was 
a case of handsome is as handsome looks. 
Now hens do not lay eggs with their 
feathers. We do not eat their combs and 
there is no white meat in any particular 
color. I had a fine Underhill Red coclc- 
erell with a pedigree so full of eggs that 
they cracked against each other. A man 
came to see him and would not even take 
a second look because “he is too light col¬ 
ored to pass the judge.” Another man, 
trained to judge a bird by utility stand¬ 
ards, picked the cockerel up and found 
him filled to the feathers with “potential 
eggs” in pedigree form. That second man 
did not care how the poultry show judges 
scored his bird—he wanted high egg scores 
in the pullets. For your fancy-bred bird 
is quite likely to score a “goose egg” 
when confronted by a trap-nest. The 
poultry contests are developing into the 
old-fashioned standard of excellence— 
“handsome is that handsome does.” I 
think that will mean a larger and better¬ 
shaped bird along with supdfcior laying 
qualities. 
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Now there is an increased demand for 
more of these contests, and we all want 
one in Northern New Jersey. The con¬ 
ditions here are good for a combination 
of poultry and fruit growing. Both are 
standard lines of farming and both are 
Bure to be prosperously developed during 
the next 20 years. Bergen County is 
the most natural place for such a con¬ 
test. It fairly represents the North Jer¬ 
sey and Southern New York section in 
climate and soil. It is easier to reach 
than Vineland, or, in fact, any other part 
of New Jersey, and every poultryman in 
the northern counties of New Jersey and 
Orange and Rockland in New York ought 
to be interested at once in the plan. The 
proposition is to secure 15 acres of suit¬ 
able land near Westwood, N. J. This is 
a good location in every way—easy to 
reach, soil right and the center of a com¬ 
munity of wideawake and solid people. 
In addition to the land we must raise 
$10,000 for equipment—such as houses 
and necessary plant required to care for 
the hens. It is proposed to run 100 pens 
of 20 hens each—much the same as at 
Vineland. Now we all think it far better 
to raise this money in a sort of co-opera¬ 
tive plan—which means not only large 
subscriptions, but a great many small ones 
as well. That will make it popular, and 
each one may feel that he has some inter¬ 
est and some ownership in it. It is one 
of these things where we can go and do it 
ourselves, and thus have it done right. 
We need this money promptly and should 
like to see at least 5.000 people interested 
in it. I will guarantee any citizen of 
Northern New Jersey or Southern New 
York that we will find an investment in 
this egg-laying contest mighty profitable 
for his State, his section and his family. 
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That includes not only those who keep 
hens, but also those who eat eggs and 
poultry. For this contest is one of the 
things which will bring producer and 
consumer closer together. Nothing eon do 
that properly except organization—and 
that is coming to be a matter of habit or 
fashion. Years ago a man could start out. 
into what was then the wilderness of 
Northern New Jersey and support him¬ 
self and contribute to the country’s food 
supply under very primitive conditions. 
About all he needed was a rifle, a bag of 
salt, an ax and a wife. With this quar¬ 
tette he was master of his earthly des¬ 
tiny. The world belonged to him. I 
suppose I may say that in that quartette 
the wife sang the air, the rifle the tenor, 
the salt alto and the ax the bass. No 
man can do that now. The days of in¬ 
dividual striving for success have passed 
on. Some men do not. realize it, perhaps, 
but it is true. We have simply got to 
organize our business or say with old 
Ben Franklin. “We must all hang to¬ 
gether or we will be hung separately.” I 
welcome this egg-laying contest, because 
it means a great step towards organiza¬ 
tion of our business. It will, give us 
headquarters where we can meet on com¬ 
mon ground and pool our interests. Out 
of it will grow closer business relations. 
Those who come to visit the institution 
will buy eggs and come back for more. 
If 5.000 or more of us will put each a 
few dollars into it. it will be the most 
popularly owned institution in all this 
territory, and from it we shall all learn 
how to get together for much larger com¬ 
munity interests. I can see 50 reasons 
why you and all your friends should come 
right into this, but I cannot, imagine one 
sound reason why you should refuse to 
do so. The big State of New Jersey is 
back of it. and that is guarantee enough 
for any man. 
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The man who buys eggs will find that 
this egg-laying contest will in time help 
to cut down the high cost of living. Tt 
will without question result in an in¬ 
creased production of eggs and of poul¬ 
try, and this will make it necessary to 
find better and more direct plans for dis¬ 
tribution. The towns and cities in this 
territory are sure to be supplied by par¬ 
cel post or by egg trucks running right 
to the buyer’s house, like the daily mail 
or the milk wagon. Such a form of dis¬ 
tribution never can be developed through 
individual effort. Under the old plan 
25 men will ship 25 different lots of eggs 
to 25 different dealers. These dealers 
will pass them along through several 
more hands before they get to you. The 
fact about this system is that you pay 
the entire cost of all this distribution. 
When these 25 hen men become interested 
in an egg-laying contest, they can and will 
organize to put over a quick parcel post 
delivery right to your door, and you will 
save the money now paid to a group of 
middlemen—in the lower price of your 
eggs and poultry. Postmaster Binder of 
Hackensack, who heads the committee 
having this matter in charge, considers 
that this parcel post development is a 
sure outcome of this contest. Tie ought to 
know. Now do not read this over and 
say "That’s good: I agree with it. I 
hope it will go through,” and then forget 
it. Say, that’s no way to start the New 
Year—forgetting the biggest chance 
North Jersey has ever had to climb on 
the agricultural map. Do not forget it. 
Before your mind gets cold —come right 
in and help. Any sum of money, large 
or small, will help, and anyone from 
Maine to California, as well as every 
Jerseyman. is free to contribute. You 
can talk to me, or better, send direct to 
•T. W. Binder, Postmaster, Hackensack, 
N. J. At any rate, be a sport and get 
into the contest! n. w. c. 
Shipping Young Chicks 
Can chicks three weeks old be safely 
shipped by express; also what size boxes 
should be used? It seems that the chick 
boxes would do by placing in a less num¬ 
ber. We have a two-story building that 
we intend to use for chicks, as three 
weeks is ae long as they can be on a board 
floor. B. i\ F. 
Ohio. 
My experience in shipping three-weeks- 
old chicks has not been very satisfactory, 
’ except when the distance is short and the 
weather mild. I prefer shipping when six 
to eight weeks old, and for this purpose 
use wooden crates, which can be properly 
ventilated, according to the season of the 
year and temperature of the weather. 
Muslin or burlap tacked over the slat 
sides and top makes good protection 
against drafts of cold air, and the chicks 
obtain fresh air for breathing by dif¬ 
fusion through the cloth. These crates 
should be about 2 ft. square and 10 in. 
high, and care should be taken not to 
crowd the chicks too tight in the crates. 
It is necessary to use crates or boxes of 
about this size, as if made larger and 
heavier they will be subject to very rough 
handling on the part of the express em¬ 
ployees, who usually tip them up on edge 
when loading and unloading, jamming all 
the birds into one side of the crate. While 
the smaller sized crate is knocked and 
thrown around in a shameful manner, like 
everything else, it is usually kept right 
side up, and the birds do not suffer so 
much as when they are all piled up in a 
heap by tipping the crate up on edge. 
C. S. GKKF.NE. 
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