•Ihe RURAL NEW-YORKER 
613 
Reds Out of Place 
The article on page 70, defending the 
Leghorns against the Reds, shows quite 
conclusively that the former are more 
profitable where one sells to a white egg 
market. If those eggs had been sold in 
Boston, or almost any other New Eng¬ 
land market, the story would have been 
different, for while New York craves 
white, not only in eggs, but also in green 
corn, meal and turnips, Boston desires 
gemething of richer color; yellow green 
corn, yellow meal, yellow turnips and 
brown eggs are her choice every time. 
Why New York prefers little white eggs, 
such as Leghorns lay, to big brown ones, 
such as Bocks and Reds lay, is hard for 
New Englanders to understand. 
A while back I had a talk with a man 
who has been in the meat and egg busi¬ 
ness about New York and New Jersey 
for years. He held the opinion that New 
Yorkers had been educated to demand the 
white eggs by the white egg producers, for 
the reason that the white egg could be 
produced more cheaply than the 'brown 
eggs. Again, he said, the packers pre¬ 
ferred the white to the brown because 
they were more easily graded, due to the 
fact that the brown eggs are not uniform 
in color, varying from light to dark 
brown. But whatever the reason may 
be for New York’s white egg whim, the 
fact remains that white eggs are at a 
premium there, and brown eggs are at a 
premium in New England. The fact that 
most of the hens raised in the New York 
and New Jersey districts are Leghorns 
testifies to the good judgment of the 
poultry raisers in choosing a breed. Also. 
New England poultry keepers deserve 
congratulations for good sense in keeping 
Rocks and Reds to cater to the sensible 
demand of New England housewives for 
big. brown eggs. 
I attended a poultry show and institu¬ 
tion at the State College a few years ago, 
given by the short-course students. They 
had a poultry show in which were 300 
birds sent in from the surrounding coun¬ 
try. Out of 300, just three were White 
Leghorns. The speaker of the day had 
come all the way from Cornell University. 
The collection of birds seemed odd to 
him. He said that in a show of that 
size at Cornell he would expect to find 
the order reversed, namely, all white Leg¬ 
horns but three. 
But all this is preliminary to what I 
am coming to. I maintain that Rhode 
Island Reds are out of place in a New 
Jersey contest, or any other contest that 
ships its eggs to a white-egg market, as 
I gather from the article mentioned above 
they do at the Vineland contest. Sup¬ 
pose the eggs had gone to a Boston mar¬ 
ket. for instance, and the Leghorn eggs 
sold for three cents less a dozen than the 
Reds. Then let us see what the differ¬ 
ence would have been: 
Doz. 
Underhill Reds (3 yrs.1, 5,672=472.6 
Platt Leghorns (3 yrs.), 6.087=507.2 
Now. then, adding three cents to every 
dozen Red eggs, and taking away three 
cents for each dozen Leghorn hens, we 
get about $14 more for the Red eggs and 
$15 less for the Leghorn eggs. 
Of course, this is all high theory, and 
might prove considerably out in practice. 
But I wish to impress the reader with 
the fact it. is not because the Leghorns 
are more efficient than the Reds that they 
show a bigger profit, but rather that the 
Leghorns are in their proper environ¬ 
ments, and the Reds are out of theirs 
(subject to the statement that the white 
eggs sold for over three cents a dozen 
more than the brown eggs). 
While I admit that a Leghorn will lay 
younger than a Red, and eats less, too, 
still the Reds’ eggs are worth more than 
the Leghorns’ food value considered, for 
they are larger, and the dressed Red will 
bring considerably more for meat than the 
dressed Leghorn. Furthermore, a pound 
of the former is more economical than 
an equal amount of the Leghorn meat, the 
Leghorn carcass being a larger per cent 
bone and refuse. Some time ago I read a 
news article in a magazine entitled “la'g- 
horn Eggs at a Discount.” In a certain 
Western city, the article stated, all mer¬ 
chants were required by a new ordinance 
to sell eggs by the pound, hence, Leghorn 
eggs were at a discount on the dozen 
basis. If the time ever comes when eggs 
are universally sold by the pound, then 
Leghorns and Wynndottes will lose their 
popularity, and Reds and Rocks will 
come to the front everywhere, even as 
they are at the front in this section now. 
Rhode Island. i). l. stillman. 
Eggs Off Color 
What is the trouble with some of my 
eggsV 1 am feeding cabbage and kale 
about three times a week, also dry mash 
before hens continually, besdies the 
scratch feed. Some eggs when opened 
would have a greenish white, the yolk 
being natural. E. C. T. 
New York. 
Excessive feeding upon cabbage, kale 
and some other green foods will some¬ 
times discolor and give a disagreeable 
odor to eggs. The remedy, of course, is 
to limit these foods to such amounts 
as to make no trouble. Hens that have 
been deprived of green stuff for some time 
are much more apt to consume excessive 
quantities of these vegetables than those 
that, have had access to them without 
»n Tuption. M. b. n. 
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