Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-02
POULTRY.
Meeting of the Poultry AssoeiatiOn-A
Small AttondanCo-NOtM Much Bust
neRS Done.

ness Done.
The May meeting of the Lancaster Coun.
ty Poultry association was keld in the
room of the agricultural association this
morning.
The following members were present
H. H. Tshudy, president, Lititz J. B.
Lichty, secretary, city J. w. Bruckhart,
Salunga NJ. L. Greider, Rapho; G. A.
Geyer, Spring Garden Z; F. r. Difenderfer,
city G. A. Cast, city J. NJ. Johnston,
city Frank Griest, city S. s. Stacks,
Spring Garden.
The following new members were elect
ed Addison Eby, of Elizabethtoxn
Jerome Shultz. of Elizabethtown.
An order was drawn on the treasurer
for s. ON account of rent due for attic OF
Roberts hall wherein the coops and other
property of the association are stored.
Reports ON the condition of the poultry
interest being called for, G. w. Brick
hart said he had good success with the
spring chicks. Though the season was
backward, he had 14O Matched, OF
which number only had died and few
been affected with gapes. He had 40 lay.
ing hens, and during March and April re-
ceived about 26 eggs per day. His Ply.
mouth Rocks laid better than tho Polish.
NJ. L. Greider, of RaphO, said though he
had only had chicks Matched out in March
owing to wintry weather, he has on the
whole been very successful and has DOW 20
chicks; they are perfectly healthy, free
from gapes, and seem to grow faster than
ever before. His laying hens have been
doing well ever since January.
George A. Geyer Of Spring Garden, had
not much experience this season with
young chickens. Tho early-setting hens
had-failed to hatch, the weather being too
cold. He has now about 20 and they are
doing very we'll, being free from disease.
His laying hens OF which he has 10 yield
from 6 to Q eggs q day.
Secretary Lichty asked what effect the
jOlting feggs transported over railroads
would have OH their Matching, quality.
He had received some by mail that ratified
when they were shaken, and deeming them
worthless he had not set them, suppOsing
them to DO stale and worthless. Since
then. however, he lad sent by rail eggs
that he knew to be fresh, and the party
receiving them complained that they
ratified, when they came to hand. He had
not yet had time to learn whether they
will or will not hatch.
Mr.. Bruckhart did not believe that an
egg that ratified would hatch. The rat
Ting is due to the fact that tho air-bubble
in the egg becomes detached and dis
placed, and thus destroys the fertility of
the egg.
Mr.. Difenderffer reported that he had
rather poor luck with spring chickens, as
only few eggs Matched. AS to the gapes
his chicks were often affected with them,
but he had no difficulty in relieving them
by removing the worms with the horse
hair loop.
President Tshudy remarked that some
yards are entirely free from gapes, while
others are badly affected. He said that a
gentleman whose chicks were badly affect
ed year after year, had got rid of the
gapes entirely by keeping his young chicks
in floored pis-sty.
Mr.. ssBrOOkhart said he would like to
know what is the best time to hatch
chicks to produce good layers. His own
opinion was that May chicks laid best.
President Tshudy thought the earlier
chicks were Matched the earlier they would
commence to lay.
Mr.. Greider thought it depended more
Old the breed than on the time of Matching.
LeghOrns will lay in five months after
they are Matched, while Asiatics will not
lay for nine months. As rule the smaller
breeds lay earlier than the large ones.
Adjourned.