10 
HISTORY OF ANCONAS 
Leonard H. Cooper, 1813 29th Ave., 
West, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, has a 
flock of Anconas that gave a fifty per 
cent egg production during February, 
when for that month the sun did not 
shine for five days; the temperature 
was zero or below for twenty days; 
one night mercury went 32 degrees be¬ 
low zero. One week of that month 
his birds produced in eggs 21V 2 per 
cent of their own weight. The pullet 
eggs averaged 2 6y 2 ounces to the 
dozen. 
Al. Bischoff, Ballston, Spa, N. Y., 
sold Mr. Estes of same place fifty An¬ 
cona eggs. Forty-seven chicks were 
hatched, and the first pullet egg was 
laid four months and four days after 
incubation. 
G. G. McLaurin of Dillon, S. Car., had 
Ancona cockerel crow at 32 days of 
age, and pullet from same brood lay 
her first egg when three months and 
fifteen days old. 
E. L. Pierce, 1224 West Third St., 
Pratt, Kansas, started 1920 with 93 An¬ 
cona hens; they made him $335.85 
above all expense during the year, and 
105 pullets to increase his flock. Sever¬ 
al pullets began laying when four 
months and eleven days old. 
Carl Reinke, Middleton, Wis., had 
45 Ancona females (thirty pullets and 
fifteen hens) that in December, 1922, 
laid 841 egs. The market price of the 
eggs was 65 cents per dozen,—$42.05. 
The feed consumed cost $8, leaving a 
net profit of more than 75 cents per 
bird. The first half of the month the 
thermometer registered below zero 
every morning. 
C. S. Cole, Sullivan, Ohio, for two 
years had Ancona pullets laying when 
sixteen weeks old. 
Mrs. R. H. Jorgensen, Dannebrog, 
Nebraska, has the Ancona pullet that 
won Championship at the Nebraska 
State Fair in 1922, that began laying 
when sixteen weeks old. 
Mrs. Leo Dupee, Route A, Helena, 
Montana: I raised 700 Anconas in 1920, 
and had an Ancona pullet laying at 
three months and eleven days old, and 
she laid good all winter. I also had 
an Ancona cockerel that crowed when 
28 days old. I have not lost an An¬ 
cona from sickness in my two’ years' 
experience. 
Nels Pearson, Box 143, Groveland, 
Florida, had two Ancona hens that in 
365 consecutive days laid 335 and 339 
eggs respectively by trap nest record. 
A pullet from one of these hens laid 
142 eggs in 150 days. 
M. D. Goodson, Abingdon, Va., has 
bred Anconas eight years. He keeps 
books cn his flock, and they have paid 
him a net profit of $6.20 per bird in 
a year. 
E. H. Harlan, New Market, Ind., had 
65 Ancona pullets that had laid 1322 
eggs when they were six months old. 
They began to lay when three months 
and twenty-eight days old. 
O. M. Morse, Fort Scott, Kansas, had 
an Ancona pullet that laid her first egg 
when four months and four days old, 
and within seventeen days laid fifteen 
eggs. Several of her mates laid before 
they were five months old. 
Thomas H. Galligan, 40 Bates Road, 
Brockton, Mass., had several Ancona 
pullets laying before four months old; 
one of them laid her first egg at three 
months and one week old. 
