The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-03-26
EGGS IN ENGLAND.
A Statistical Reformer Who Is PiIing
Up Trouble Ahead for Hlmnelf.

Up Trouble Ahead for Himself.
There Is to be national poultry
test" in England beginning March l,
and in anticipation of 1t Mr.. Killian
Bourneau Baghot de la Bere, of Burbage
hall, Leicestershire, has issued cir
cular to "the agriculturists of England"
wherein he states that the ''object of the
test is to set at rest the vexed and Oft
debated question of profit or loss in
volved in the keeping of fowls, more par
ticularly as egg producers The Brit
ish public, he says, "are forever asking
our farming community why they do
not produce the 3O0,0O0,00O eggs we
annually import? The only answer
they get to this query is: Because we
cannot produce them at a profit" 1t is
the theory of Mr.. Baghot de la Bere, of
Burbage hall, Leicestershire, that the
reason Of the large and steadily increas-
ing importations of eggs into Great
Britain, which have increased in value
volume from So 600, 900 to $50, 900, 900 be-
tween 1860 and 1890, is the failure of
English farmers to apply modern meth
DDS to the egg industry in England, and
he favors therefore what the civil re-
formers in the United States would call
a competitive test.
Mr.. Baghot de la Bere has in view the
application of arithmetical principles
to the egg business, and he scouts the
assertion in his circular that any real
dependence is to be put on the farmers
societies, for English farmers, he AYERS,
10 L.. Al IT,
way he does and do not approach it from
the same point of view. He insists on q
practical test that is to be begun on
March 1, and this is the method of it:
G) Each flock subjected to the test
shall number 40. (2) Each flock Of 40
shall be wired in and confined upon an
acre of grass run. (3) Each and every
flock is to receive the same description
of food and to be fed twice daily; dur
ing the six spring and summer months,
upon grain only-maize, wheat, barley
and OATS during the six autumn and
winter months in the morning food with
boiled roots mixed with meal, with
whole grain at night. (4) All food is to
be purchased in the local market,
weighed and stored in locked shed.
The eggs are to be counted daily and
sold weekly in open market. No fancy
price realized is to be taken account of.
(5) Strict account is to be kept of the
number of hours week devoted to the
necessary care of the stock. (6) a state
ment is to be made of the capital in
volved at the start by the purchase of
stock, cost of lighthouses, and other
appliances. 1t is intended that the re-
suit shall at the close of the year be
published in detail in all the leading
agricultural papers, as well rs widely
distributed in pamphlet form, through
/ the aid of county councils and other
societies in touch with the agricultural
/ industry.
1t is an undeniable fact that very
considerable amount of the food con-
sumed in England is imported from
other countries. Milk, cheese and eggs
come chiefly from Denmark, Holland
and France, while much of the agri-
cultural land of Great Britain is unpro-
ductive and the farmers of England ex-
| perence the lack of home market
! Whether the experimental tests in the
egg line of Mr.. Baghot de In Bere. OF
! Burbagc hall, Leiccstershire. will have
the results expected and set forth in
his circular, is conjcctural and some
American poultry rnisers seem inclined
to doubt tn. Y. Sun