The Jennings daily record. [volume] (Jennings, La.) 1900-1903, 1902-03-15
Ayrshire breeders, Meeting.


The Ayrshire Breeders Association
held its 9th annual meeting at the
Crown Hotel, Providence, R. l., on jan
uary 18th, 1902. The officers elected
were Geo. H. Yeaton, Dover, N. H.,
president; Obadiah Brown, Providence,
r. l., vice president; James j. Hill, St.
Paul, Mimi. second vice president;
Thomas Turnbull, Jr., Allegheny, Pa,
third vice president; Etna J. Fletcher,
Greenfield, N. H., fourth vice presi-
dent; c. NJ. Winslow. Brandon. VT.
secretary and editor; N. S. Winsor,
Greenville. R. l., treasurer; Charles II.
Hayes, Portsmouth, N. H., executive
committee for three years; E. B. Sher-
man, Harrisville, r. l., executive COM
mittee for three years 1t was voted
to appropriate money from the treas
ury to pay the expense of placing a
herd Of Ayrshire cows in the breed
test at the worlds fair at St. Louis in
1903, and a committee was appointed to
take charge of the same. 1t was also
voted to offer special premiums for
Ayrshire cows shown in the ring at
the worlds fair at ST. Louis in 1903. A
committee was appointed to draft rules
for adopting an advanced registry for
Ayrshire cows for milk aud butter
which will be started April l, 1902. 1t
was voted to continue the home dairy
tests for the next year on the same
plan as Of last year, beginning April
l, 1902. The test of last year had
seventy-seven cows entered which are
being tested for year beginning April
/, 1901, under the direction of the state
experiment stations. 1t was voted that
it was the earnest wish of the Ayrshire
Breeders Association that Congress
pass the Grout oleomargarine bill now
before it.-C. NJ. Winslow, secretary.
Red AIbumen.
From the Farmers Review: Perhaps
many of the Farmers Review" read
ers saw an article to the effect that
red albumen fed in the hens morning
mash would stimulate them to such
egg production as was never before
imagined; in fact, according to the ar
ticle writer's father and brother, the
hens would average about twenty-five
eggs each per month, all through the
winter. Red albumen was said to be
comparatively cheap, and was to be
obtained at any first class drug store
The drug stores first were flooded with
inquiries, the most of them, of course,
didn't have it, then the officers Of the
different papers in which such articles
appeared The writer of the first arti-
Gle has since written another that has
appeared in several weekly papers to
the effect that one should ask for Be
koe albumen" and that 1t was a prod
uct from South America. Many Of the
drug stores have done a land office
business in the sale of red albumen.''
cayenne pepper venetian red, in fact
any red powder they had that they
thought chickens would eat, was
handed to the red albumen inquirer.
Very few, If any, agricultural papers
printed the articles, although many re-
ceived them. Whether it was written
with harmful intent, or as joke. is
not known yet, but opinion inclines to-
ward the cheap advertisement idea
One prominent New York city news
paper, since printing the article, says
ut Is convinced, from the food OF let
tiers inquiring for the place where red
elbunen could be purchased, that