HISTORY OF ANCONAS 
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Anconas on Commercial Plants 
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Anconas are rapidly becoming a 
popular breed for commercial egg 
farming, because the facts are becom¬ 
ing so well known that there is more 
profit in Anconas than in any other 
breed. Anconas are also less sus¬ 
ceptible to disease; are less conspicu¬ 
ous on the range than other fowls, so 
are not so much the prey of hawks, 
foxes and rodents; pullets begin laying 
weeks ahead of any other breed; and 
the breed is better advertised, the 
clubs more active, the class better fill¬ 
ed at the shows—all of which means a 
bigger demand for eggs, stock, and 
chicks. 
The name and address of a few of 
the large Ancona Commercial Plants 
are here given. Scores of others are 
being added every season. 
One of the best known and most 
successful Ancona plants in the United 
States is “Lingerlonger Farm,” Weau- 
bleau, Mo., operated by Mr. and Mrs. 
J. B. Ownes, who devote all their time 
and their entire 40 acres, to Anconas. 
Their energies are directed to show 
and breeding birds, and they trap nest 
all their breeders. They hatched 5,000 
baby chicks in 1922, and kept over a 
third of them. Their farm is well 
equipped with laying, brooding, and 
colony houses. Their incubator capac¬ 
ity is 2,400 eggs. Lingerlonger An¬ 
conas are making very good records in 
laying contests and the big poulti y 
shows. 
The most intensive Ancona business 
in Canada is Riverdale Poultry Farm. 
N. H. Gampp, proprietor, New Ham¬ 
burg, Ontario. This fifteen-acre poul¬ 
try plant is devoted exclusively to An¬ 
conas. There is a hatching capacity 
of 4000 eggs and a 2640 egg Buckeye 
Mammoth Incubator No. 6 has just 
been installed to take care of their 
increasing business. They have six 
coal burning brooder stoves with ca¬ 
pacity for 3,000 chicks. Last year 800 
layers were kept and new buildings 
have just been finished to keep 1500 
this year. The old house is 16x100 
feet, and the new one is 16x120 feet 
with center part two stories high, the 
ground floor for feed, and the second 
story for storage and conditioning. Mr. 
Gampp has bred Anconas for a dozen 
years, and after experimenting with 
several other breeds he discarded all 
but Anconas, as they proved very much 
more profitable and satisfactory in 
every way for a commercial egg plant. 
These Riverdale Anconas have made 
wonderful records in the several Can¬ 
adian Egg-Laying Contests. 
C. W. Norton’s Big Four Ranch at 
Pomona, California, is fitted up to 
carry 3000 head of grown stock. Brood¬ 
er house has a capacity of 3000, and 
the hatching capacity is 30,000 eggs 
every three weeks. All breeding males 
are from better than 200-egg hens. Mr. 
Norton writes: “I have had Anconas 
for ten years, and find that I can pro¬ 
duce a dozen eggs much cheaper with 
the Anconas than any other breed 1 
ever carried, and I have had more than 
16 different breeds.” 
One of the big Ancona plants in this 
country is the Dallas Poultry Faim, 
