The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-07-07
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Ihls popularity Of the barn yard cham.
ION became tho subject of con yersatlon

This popularity Of the barn yart, cham.
plon became tho subject of conversation
at little dinner given at Delm onico's,
New York, on the 9th Of last January,
the occasion being the commemoration
or the birthday of Mr.. Larry Jerome,
who asserts that he is OF the same age
as General Andrew Jackson.
~ don't see," said MIR. Alexand er
Taylor, Jr., "why If this Is 30, rooster
cannot be trained to crow as we'll as to
fight. believe that by taking one VIII en-
mere chick and cultivating it's lunp
power assidiously, putting before it, from
Its earliest infancy, the best and most
lll''strlous Growers, a rooster could be
trained to crow u dozen times cons ecu
lively"
Mr. Jerome seeing hero an opportunity
Tor wager-somethlng VIII CHI he never
neglected--said:-"l would all depend
upon mans own training. T brought
up IN the country, as I was, observant
or the Eabts of the fowl from boyhood,
there ls little doubt but that experiment
OF this kind would be success. |
thlnk, however, that yor would fall"
'11l bet you $6,00O," said MIR. Tay-
lor, promptly, "that IN Six months IN
produce cock that will outcrow any
thing you can shOw.'
Ill take that bet" sn,d Mr. Jerome.
quietly, and the conversation dlvergeI to
other topics, neither party again alludlng
to 1t, and each gentleman trusting that
the other would forget all about it so
that he might be able to claim a default
when settling day arrived.
The next morning Mr.. Taylor went
bright and early to Washington Market,
and, from Information there obtained. was
induced to 60 to Rosedale, N. j., where
Dir. Philip Timpson resides
In giving the particulars to reporter,
MIR, Taylor said:--"l learned that Phil
Ilmpson was a most successful hatcher of
chickens by artificial process, and went
to him and told HIM l wanted a lot
Matched, all cocks and of the best GROWING
breeds. Lie said I'd have to take 'em as
they come, cocks and hens together, and
that he had no process for Matching cocks
exclusively. He said, however, that he
would lay the world under contribution
FOR eggs, and that If | would agree to
take all that he would hatch there was no
doubt that among the lot should be able
10 secure the champion Grower.
$50, after signing a contract, returned
to my place at Nlamaroncck, and had q
house built $50 feet on the water-lme-
sho, don't mean that thought was
speaking of a yacht: but she's 100 feet
over all; that is, it is that length along the
water, and I've had It fitted IN with
porchcs at different elevations, 30 that at
the earliest age the young rooster will
have place from which to crow. and eau
advance from perch to perch, raising his
notes at each elevation"
1--WE got over 500 fowl there already.
ana Itmpson is gong to have 500 more
on Thursday morning. Until about a
week ago l thought That | had sure
thing on Larry Jerome, but then learned
that he had constructed a Growing nursery
at Oyster Bay, l.. l., under the supcrin-
lendencc Of his brother, Tom Jerome.
Still l think IN beat HIM, after all, for
iImpsOn says that there's not a known
breed OF fowl but what possess OF it Il
representative cock"
Alr. Jerome was found immersed in
wclghty transactions at the Stock tx
change. lie had but moment to Sd ire
Tor an lntcrvic " and said that he consd.
ered II gross breach of confidence on the
part OF MIR. Taylor to have given the thing
away. since il has gone 40 far how
ever, >" SAID he, 81 may say that nv hen
merry I" Oyster Bay is $50 feet long and
90 feet in width, My fowls, OF which |
have 2,P00, represent 100 distinct breeds,
all Of which have been produced by putont
process and with especial reference to
Growing. | don't feel the least anxiety
about the matter, as I have no doubt but
that my bird will wln.''
''Whre Will the trial take place, sIr.
Jeromc2"
1--WE have not decided upon that as vet
we or course never imagined that the
event would be of so much public interest,
anu expected to have 1t up at Taylor's
place at Mamaronccl, or else down at
oyster Bay, with only few Of our
friends present; but the interest in 1t
seems to have been aroused to such an
extent that told Alec the other day that
thought we would have to secure the
Garden, or else the American Institute
building in Third avenue. The Judges
are MIR. Andrew Cahoon for Mr.. Taylor,
and have asked Mr.. Charles Minton, the
Secretary of the New York Yacht Club,
TO act for me; they two to choose q third