^ m ]>rican Agriculturist, July 26, 1924 _ 
It Was a “Do-Session” 
Poultry School Showed How to Weed Out Culls 
By E. C. WEATHERBY making unnecessary 
trap-nesting work. 
It would be unfair for me as an amateur 
to attempt to write down here how to 
select high-producing birds. Of course, 
I was tardy and absent from some of the 
lectures and demonstrations, as the cireu- 
scn ooi, x, — 6 ,^.3 ... lation manager of the American Agri- 
State Agricultural College at Cornell and culturist has to be awake, and at his job 
went to pitching hay on the home farm, most of the time if he is going to keep up 
It was at Cornell that I went back to with the fine and useful services that 
M OST of us re 
member some¬ 
thing that happened the first day we went 
to school, but I will wager it was not the 
thing that the teacher was trying. to 
teach us. This is what came in my mind 
last Monday when I started back to 
school, it being ten years since I left the 
school to attend the Poultry Judging and 
Breeding School which closed at the end 
of this week as the most successful of 
these schools which had been held for the 
last seven years. The thing that I re¬ 
member at the starting of the school was 
the earnest expression on the faces of 0 — 0 ~~ -- - — 0 - 
one hundred and four people, ranging in market with the Express Company, 
occupation from poultry farmer to college 
teacher. Everyone in attendance wanted 
to do something. 
When the final sessions were coming to 
close there was an undertone of ex- 
Ed itor Eastman and his staff are each 
week rendering American Agricultur¬ 
ist subscribers. But I did attend enough 
sessions and handled enough birds so that 
I know right now' that within the next four 
weeks a number of hens in my own flock 
are going to have a nice long ride to 
Your Hens Should Keep You 
This elimination of the low producers, 
the poorest of which are now going out of 
egg production, is the easy part, yet how 
pression coming from the teaching staff little it is practiced. All the feed and the 
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and others that “we really have gotten 
somewhere this year.” 
Proper Culling Will Reduce Costs 
I believe if the principles taught as. to 
culling out the low producer and selecting 
labor of handling the feed is being thrown 
away on the “hens that you are keeping.” 
It should be the other way round, 
“your hens should be keeping you.” 
When the session was drawdng to a 
close the twenty-four instructors who 
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he high producer were understood and were in charge of the school got together 
practiced more generally by poultrymen, an d drew up a statement regarding the 
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we would not have occasion to be so 
worried about what seems to be a close¬ 
ness to the point of over-production in the 
poultry business. 
Ten years ago there were two or three 
men from the Poultry. Department at 
Cornell who were available to demon¬ 
strate methods of culling. Now there are 
eight men, and these men are compelled 
to hold their work to purely demonstra- . _ 
five business, that is showing poultrymen types of poultry. 
definite points to be considered in select¬ 
ing birds for production, working from 
external appearances. This statement 
may be obtained from Cornell. 
Books Don’t Make Judges 
The judging of eggs from the point of 
quality, uniformity, and market demands 
was another feature of the school, also 
how to judge the good and jpoor meat 
who come together in groups, how to cull, 
rather than going to individual farms and 
doing the culling for the poultryman. 
Paid Cullers Now Available 
In visiting with Professor Heuser, he 
told me that in addition to his extension 
staff who do demonstrative work that 
there would be working in the State this 
fall twelve “paid cullers.” I believe that 
all of the men who are planning to do this 
I would not expect anyone to get 
correct ideas on how to judge a bird for 
egg production by reading an article, 
because there are so many things to be 
taken into consideration. One, to be 
successful, must be able to know what to 
see and then to be able to see it. I think 
the fact that twenty-four teachers of 
poultry husbandry came together for a 
week to study with each other and the 
students who attended, the eharacteris- 
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rilling work were in attendance at every tics that are identified , with high or low 
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session of the judging school. These 
“paid cullers” are available to poultry- 
men within a county and details as to 
how and when they are available and the 
cost can be obtained at the county farm 
bureau office. 
egg production, is an evidence of this fact. 
The thing that impresses me is that this 
was a conference that can be measured in 
the terms of dollars and cents. . It 
was not a talk-session but a do-session 
for the poultry industry, with every one 
So I say the judging school is something present going.back to his poultry-farm, or 
hat pouitrymen are demanding, in order to his place in some. line, of teaching or 
hat they may have trained men come to instruction, and putting into practice, or 
their farms to help them eliminate the 
low producers and select the high pro¬ 
ducers which they would want to keep as 
breeders, this selection to be done by 
judging from external appearances, thus 
helping others put into practice, the 
elimination of the low-producing hens 
and the selection of the high-producing 
hens that will stay in the breeding-pen 
this coming season. 
The instruction staff of the recent Poultry Judging School at the New York State College of 
Agriculture at Ithaca. All are of the college staff except those whose addresses are mentio ed. 
(1) W. R. Graham, Ontario, Canada; (2) J. E. Rice; (3) G. F Heuser; (4) L F. Payne, Manhattan, 
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J. H. Vandervort; (13) G. O. Hall; (14) O. B. Kent Quaker Oats Co., Chicago, I1L, (15) L.E. Card, 
University of Ill., Urbana, Ill.; (16) C. K. Powell; (17) W. Krum; (18) L C. Norris, 19 R. H. 
Lewis, Davisville, R. I.; (20) W. H. Allen, New Brunswick, N. J.; (21) J. C. Huttar, (22) Thos. 
Ouisley; (23) R. C. Bradley; (24) F. E. Andrew*. 
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